92 The Raid at Dumfries on Lammas Even. 



lOO merks.'^^ Some indication of the size of the body of men 

 that g-athered in support of Lord Maxwell may be obtained 

 by consideration of the wide tract of country from which the 

 above men were drawn. 



Lord Maxwell, Lord Carlyle, and the Laird of Johnstone 

 were- not put upon trial. This may be Bishop Lesley's 

 " pairtly be agreement." They were not allowed, however, 

 to g-o scot free. The Crown might have more need for a 

 man's purse than his person. They, with William Douglas 

 of Drumlanrig, appear to have been dealt with by arbitrators, 

 as appears from the Acta Dominorum of June 8th, 15 13, 

 when Douglas " gaif in tua billis for him and the lord max- 

 well and ellegeit that thai war ordanit to pay certane sovms 

 be vertu of ane decrete arbitrale gevin betuix them and the 

 lord Creichtoun," and in which the Laird of Johnstoun was 

 also included. ^° 



The only definite fact emerging is the entry in the Lord 

 High Treasurers' Accounts, when at some date after August 

 6th, 1511, Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness, the Trea- 

 surer, charges himself with receiving- ;^555 iis o|^d from 

 Lord Maxwell, ;^400 from the Laird of Johnstoun, and £22 

 4s 4d from Lord Carlyle, as part payment of the larg-er sum 

 of ;£ji566 13s 4d due by Lord Maxwell and his accomplices 

 in connection with the raid of Dumfries.'*'- 



Two thousand three hundred and fifty merks, to g-ive 

 the fine in round Scots money, might well merit the descrip- 

 tion of "a great composition." Johnstone undoubtedly 

 came off the worst of the three, for besides paying ;^400 as 

 above he paid nearly ;;^4oo more as surety. It mitigates 

 one's anxiety for the Lords to reflect that then, as now, their 

 burdens were passed on to humbler shoulders. Whether any 

 further instalments of the fine were paid does not appear. 

 In June, 15 13, there is talk of modification : " William 

 Douglas of Drumlangrig, Knyt, for him self and in name 

 of the lord Maxvel, and the lard of Johneston, protestit sen 



39 Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, I., *86. 



40 MS. Acta Dom.. 8th June, 1513, Vol. XXV., fol. 168. 



41 The Lord High Treasurers' Accounts, Vol. IV., p. 154. 



