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day next before Carneprevyum this year; and likewise on same 
day of the capture of the said Richard’s person, then the king’s 
sheriff of the county of Dumfries and constable of the castle, and 
at the capture of said castle, with said Robert.’”’ Sir John was 
sentenced to be drawn and hanged. The memory of Sir 
Christopher Seton, who met a similar fate at Edward’s hands, has 
been kept alive at Dumfries by the vestiges of the “ Crystol 
Chapel,’’ on the site on which St. Mary’s Church now stands. 
These executions followed on orders by the King and Council 
that all present at the death of John Comyn, or of council or 
assent thereto, should be drawn and hanged. 
Immediately on the recovery of the castle, the following 
were in garrison there:—Gilbert, son of Sir Dovenald, John de 
Gavelstone, Duugall de Gavelstone, Walter Duraunt, John 
Duraunt, William de Percy, William de la Mare, Richard de 
Colnehathe, John de Urre, John Arkarson, Patrick, son of Gilbert 
M‘Loland, Ade de Eskdale, John de Harop, Ade de Kirkconnel, 
and Ade de Lochyan, esquires, with covered horses, and 40 
archers, infantry. Their wages were reckoned from the 3rd day 
of March, on which day, as stated in the account, the said castle 
was retaken from the men of Robert de Bruce after the death of 
John Comyn. Sir Ade de Swyneburne, Knight, was appointed 
constable on 9th March, and entered on his duties Ist April. 
A little later, in May, Sir Thomas de Torthorwald, Sir Richard 
de Mareschal, Sir Henry de Maundeville, Sir Matthew de Egleles, 
Sir Matthew de Redeman, Knights, and Sir Henry de Percy, the 
king’s lieutenant in Scotland, are mentioned, with their esquires, 
also artillerymen, light horsemen, foot archers, and others. 
Sir Matthew de Redeman succeeded Sir Ade de Swyneburne 
in the constableship of the castle, on 2nd August. 
The sum of £179 was, it appears by the accounts, paid as 
compensation for horses killed in the king’s service at Dumfries 
and Lochmaben, from the year 1303. Sir John de Botetourte is 
stated to have received as compensation for 4 horses, priced for 
himself and his esquires, the sum of £76 and 1 mark. The 
executors of Sir John de St. John were paid as compensation for 
one horse priced for Terrie le Alemaunt, servant of the same Sir 
John, at Lochmaben, in the month of September in the 31st year, 
and which died in the king’s service at Dumfries in the 32nd year, 
8 marks. 
