302 Death of Comyn. 



Translation of Extract from the Chronicle of Lanercost. 



" They hanged those who had given advice and assistance 

 in the foresaid conspiracy to make him king; and they caused 

 the greater of them first to be drawn at the feet of horses, and 

 afterwards hanged them. Among whom were Christopher de 

 Setone Englishman, who had married a sister of the often-said 

 Robert, and John and Humfrid, brothers of the said Christopher, 

 and some others with them." 



Translation of Extract from Sir Thomas Gray's 

 " Scalacronica," p. 131. 



" Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and Humfray de Bouhmi, earl 

 of Hereford, who had passed the mountains of Scotland, 

 besieged the castle of Kyndromy in Mar and took it. In which 

 castle was found Christopher de Setoun with his wife, the sister 

 of Robert de Bruys, who as an English renegade was sent to 

 Dunfres, and there hung, drawn, and beheaded ; where he had 

 before helped to kill a knight, the viscount of the country, 

 representing the King of England." 



Translation of Second Extract from Gray. 



" Robert de Bruys formed a great plan and sent his two 

 brothers, Thomas and Alexander, towards Niddisdale, and the 

 vale of Anande, in order to levy the requisitions from the people. 

 Where they were surprised by the English and taken, and led by 

 the King's order to Cardvil, and there hung, drawn, and 

 beheaded." 



I have now translated all the extant accounts of the 

 assassination of John Comyn, which were written during 100 

 years after the event. The contemporaries were Walter of 

 Hemingburgh, Matthew of Westminster, the Chronicler of Laner- 

 cost, and Sir Thomas Gray. The last named was, like Bruce 

 and Comyn, a Norman knight. I have also appended Barbour's 

 account published 70 years after the event, and John of Fordun's 

 account published about 80 years after the event. It seems to 

 me that Hemingburgh, supplemented by Gray, gives the most 

 reliable account. I am trying to trace the f.rst account of the 

 Kirkpatrick episode, but at present I have not found it. At any 

 rate, no author within 100 years has anything about it. 



