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in implement of an earlier bargain surrendered Dumfriesshire* to 

 England as the price of the support of Edward III. in his efforts 

 for the crown. With one leg booted and the other bare, on a 

 horse without saddle or bridle and harnessed only with a halter, 

 he was chased ignominiously out of the land.f 



Our fine old rhyming historian, | Wyntoun, tells the tale thus : 



Ande, or all this tytne wes gone, 



The yhoung Erie off Murrawe Jhon 



And Schyre Archebald off Dowglas 



That brodyr till Schyre Jamys was, 



Purchasyd§ thame a cunipany, 



A thowsand wycht men and hardy; 



Till Anand in a tranowntyng || 



Thai come on thame in the dawyng.lf 



Thare war syndry gud men slayne 



•Schyre Henry, the BallyoU thame agayne. 



With a stafle fawcht sturdyly. 



And dyntis delt rycht dowchtyly. 



That men hym loved efftyr his day. 



Thare deyde Schyre Jhone than the Mowbray, 



And Alysawndyre the Brws wes tane. 



Bot the BallyoU his gat is gane 



On a barme' hors wyth leggys bare, 



Swa fell that he ethchapyd- thare. 



The lave-' that ware noncht tane in hand 



Fled qwhare thai niycht fynd warrand, 



Swa that all that cumpany, 



Dyscumfyt ware all halyly. 



Scotland was glad of this battle of Annan which rid her, for 

 the time at least, of a king she did not want. He had a merry 

 Christmas in Carlisle,* says the Lanercost Chronicle ; the com- 

 munity loved him much for the great confusion he had brought 

 upon the Scots after he invaded Scotland, although now that 

 confusion had fallen upon himself. 



*Fmdera, 12th June, 1334. 



tOne of the three ancient fords of the estuary now called Solway was at 

 Annan, the Annan wath. Knyghton in Decern Scriptores, 2566. 



X Wyntoun, viii. , ch. 26. 



§Purchasyd, procured. 



llTranowntyng, journeying by night. 



ITIn the dawyng, at dawn. En un nube rle jour is the phrase of the 

 Scalacronica. 



^Barme, saddle less. 



^Ethchappyd, escaped. 



^Lave, the rest. 



*Ghron. Lanercost, 271. 



