The Battle of Doenock. 157 



available force of the country-side, " the flower of the soldieiy of 

 all Annaiidale," as Bower' puts it, was mustered under Douglas's 

 command. 



Probably there was no great difficulty in divining the road 

 the Englishmen were going to take. At anyrate, when they 

 reached the ford Douglas was there too. A smart engage- 

 ment was the result, fought '' near the vill of Drunnok at the 

 Sandy wathe."- 



It is from the mention of the •• wath " that I have been led to 

 draw my inferences regarding the intention of the Englishmen to 

 return into England by it. The battle was fought on Thursday, 

 25th March, about three o'clock in the afternoon — circa horam 

 nonam. A friend who has been good enough to compute the tides 

 for me calculates that at that time, or a short while before, it w^as 

 ebb, and the ford passable. The plan of the conductors of the 

 expedition doubtless was to reach the ford at low water. The 

 Scots, however, were at the ford as soon as they : the retiral was 

 intercepted : battle was inevitable. 



The Scots made a sharp attack. By one account it would 

 seem that they had a particular animosity against the captain of 

 the invading expedition, and " fell with one accord and with one 

 shout upon the person of Sir Antony." But as the friar of 

 Carlisle says — he who wrote the chronicle of Lanercost — "Thanks 

 to God and the stout help of the young men " the two Scottish 

 knights, Boys and Jardine, were slain and 24 men-at-arms with 

 them. Hemingburgh represents that the casualties greatly ex- 

 ceeded this number. He adds William Carlyle to the list of dead, 

 saying that 160 men were slain. Knyghton states the slaughtered 

 Scots at 140. Baird and Douglas were captured with, says 

 Hemingburgh, about 100 others. The rest were put to flight — 

 base flight, of course, the Englishmen called it. 



On the English side it is recorded that only two esquires fell. 

 These were Thomas of Plumland and John of Ormesby, the latter 

 of whom had long been a thorn in the flesh to the Scots.^ Their 

 bodies, borne to Carlisle on horseback, were honourably buried 



' Bower, ii., 310. 



- Juxta villam de Drunnok apud Sandywathe. — Lanercost Chron., 272. 

 ^ Qui semper ante fuerat stirmUus in oculis Scolicorum.—Lsinevcost 

 Chron., 273. 



