Thk Raid \r l)i mirjks on Lammas Kvkn. 7H 



Troqueer Holm placed before this Societ> • surli matter as he 

 could g-ather about the raid. Summing up he wrote, '" What 

 a tedious, pointless storv is here !" and commented upon the 

 vague and unsalisfaclory account " ol" the incident, 

 which seems," he ct)ncluded, " to have been regarded in 

 ihe light of a common family feud." 



With some long-forgotten documents before us we arc 

 confident of securing from the reader a revision of these 

 conclusions, and of lifting the incident out of obscurity and 

 misconception to its |)roper position in the historv of Dum- 

 fries. 



There is little more about the raid to l)e gleaned from 

 contemporary historians than was available fifty y£ars ago. 

 Sir James Balfour says : — " Ihis zcire at Drumfreis, ther 

 was a grate feight betuix the Lords Maxswoll and Sanquhare 

 and ther frindes and followars quheirin the Lord Sanquhare 

 wcs ouerthrovven, and maney of his frinds killed. "^ 



Bishop Lesley writes : — " Thair was a gret gaddering 

 the XXX day of July [i5o8]2'^ betuix the Lord Maxwell and 

 the Lord Creychtoun of Sanchar, quhair the Lord Creych- 

 toun was chaissit with his cumpany fra Drumfreis and the 

 Laird of Dalyell and the young [Laird] of Crauchley slane 

 with diuers utheris, quhairf)f thair appered greit deidly fcid 

 and bludshed ; bot the King tuk sic ordour, partlie be justice 

 and pairtely be aggrement that the hole cause wes suddenlye 

 quyeted and stancheit. "-^ 



To these we can add an extract from the Terregies -MS. 

 " .\fter a great fray the 30th July, 1508, he [Lord Maxwell] 

 chased the Lord Sanquhar out of Drumfries, killed the Laird 

 Dalzell, the laird of Creigliiaw , and sundry others, for whilk 



1 The Sands of Dunifjies in 1508. Trans. 1) <ind (1. N. H . 

 and A. Sac, LS65-6, pp. 51-60. 



2 Annals. I., 231. 



2a It will be seen that Bishop Leslie and the writer of tho 

 Terregies MS. both give the date of the Raid as the 30th of July. 

 The doeument given in full in Appendix IV. is dated the 31st, and 

 this date receives confirmation in the letter of the Crown to Lord 

 CVichton, 3rd January. 1508-9. (Reg. Sec. Sig.. L. No. 1791.) 



3 H'l.'iioiie of Scotland ( Hannatyne Club), p. 78. 



