The discovery of the bones of Little John is recorded by Hector Boethius in the Scotorum Regni Descriptio which precedes his Scottish history of 1526, at fol. 9r. But the closeness of Harrison's phrasing to that of John Bellenden in the latter's translation of Boethius - `we saw his hanche bane as mekill as the haill bane of ane man. For we schot our arme in the mouth thairof ...' - suggests that he used the translation rather than the original.