The Raid at Dimikiks on Lammas Eves. 8i) 



that come with him to tlic said court be attechit, arestit or 

 accusit be the justice, justice-clerkis, etc., for convocatioun 

 of the King^is Metres, slauchtcr, refe or ony uther maner of 

 crime or actioun committit or done be him or thaim the said 

 tyme, or be ony occasioua or ony uther thing that mycht 

 follow thairupoun, bot will (hat the sammyn ceis for evir in 

 tyme to cum, etc."'^o 



Thus were tliosc \\ lio had suffered loss from Lord 

 Crichluu and his adherents " suddenlye quyeted," and we 

 are prevented from acquii inj^- an estimate of the damage 

 inflicted by the Crichtons. On ist December, 1509, in 

 presence of the Lords of Council, Lord Crichton and Lord 

 Maxwell entered into a bond of truce for themselves and 

 their friends in the follow inj; terms : — " In presens of the 

 Lords of Counsale Rohei t lord Creichton of Sanquhar on 

 the ta part and Johne lord maxvele on the tother part ilk 

 ane assurit \ theris and their kenman, frendis and all the 

 personis beand at the Raid of Drumfress on lammas day for 

 them, ther men, kin and frends and all that thai mav let 

 but fraudc or gile. excepand the personis that straik that 

 day, be the faith in ther bodijs on to candelmes day nixt to 

 cum cjuhill son pas dovne. "^^ 



One man on the Crichton side was, however, outlawed. 

 This was Robert Creichtoun of Kirkpatrik, who, in December, 

 1510, is described as " now being- at the home for the slater 

 of Alexander fergusone and Robert fergusone." John Fer- 

 guson of Craigdarroch endeavoured to implicate John 

 Creichtoune of Hartwood as one of Robert Creichton 's accom- 

 plices, purchased letters to take surety of him and sought 

 to get him outlawed. John Lord Hay of Vester and John 

 Carmichael of Medoflat raised the matter before the Lords 

 of Council. The latter decided that " the executioun of the 

 said lettrez purchest be the said Johne fergusone anent the 

 takyng of s(Hierte of the said Johne of Crechtone to haf 

 vnderlyne the law for the said actioun sail ceiss and be 

 suspendit in tyme to cum becauss the said Johnis borrowi>^ 



30 Hcij. Ser. Si(j.. I., No. 1791, p. 271. 



31 ALS. Acta Doni., Vol. XXL. f. 47. 



