84 The Raid at Dumfries on Lammas Even. 



michael of that Ilk, ancestor of the Earls of Hyndford, both 

 deputy-sheriffs of Lord Crichton. There were also present 

 a chaplain, Sir John Steynsone, and three notaries public, 

 John Makhome, presbyter of Glasgow, Roger M'Gilhaugh, 

 presbyter of Carlisle, and John Durane, curate of Glasgow 

 and clerk of the Sheriff Court,* to whose good offices we 

 are indebted for the following intimate record. Before the 

 Deputy-Sheriff could begin, the Provost, Nicholas M'Brair, 

 appeared as spokesman and deputy for the whole community 

 of the burgh, and addressed him thus : — 



" Shir zour offichar says that he hais arrestit ane part of 

 the nychburris of Drumfreis to this court for bluyd, the 

 quhilk bluyd of the nychburris of Drumfreis, the correctioun 

 and punycion tharof, pertenis to the alderman and bailzeis 

 and ourismen of the said burgh and thai haue bein in wse of 

 the correctioun thairof be the space of thre hundret zeris 

 but ony impediment of ony sheref or depute that buyr office 

 "in that tyme, That is to say outhir Shr thomas of kyrk- 

 patrik, Sh^ Robert of crechtoun, Eduard of crechtoun or ony 

 wtheris that buyr office of Sherefschip or deputschip and 

 this bluyd of the nycburris of Drumfreis pertenis in heritagis 

 to Drumfreis and to the ourismen of the samyn. " 



To that declaration the deputy-sheriff retorted bluntly : — 



" Shir Alderman, I declair and certifeis to zow that the 

 Toluyd of Drumfreis pertenis to my lord crechtoun of the 

 sanquhair, sheref principale of Drumfreis, in heretagis and 

 is his heritagis quham to I am depute and I, in my lordis 

 name, will determine thair wpone." 



Then the doughty Provost, quelling his rising anger at 

 this curt declaration, made answer : — 



" Sene ze, sheref depute, sais and allegis that the bluyd 

 of Drumfreis is heretages to my lord crechtoun of the san- 

 quhair, quhame to ze ar depute, as sheref principale of Drum- 

 freis, he and ze ar suspect Jugis [judges] till ws, And wpone 



pp. 576, 582, does not mention this John Carmichael, but gives 

 another John Carmichael of Park as the third son of William. The 

 first John is elsewhere styled "the young laird of Carmichael." 

 <Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, I., *85.) 



* MS. Acta Dominorum, 8th April, 1511, Vol. XXII., fol. 150. 



