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in implement of an earlier bargain surrendered Dumfriesshire* to 
England as the price of the support of Edward III. in his efforts 
for the crown. With one leg booted and the other bare, on a 
horse without saddle or bridle and harnessed only with a halter, 
he was chased ignominiously out of the land. fT 
Our fine old rhyming historian,{ Wyntoun, tells the tale thus : 
Ande, or all this tyme wes gone, 
The yhoung Hrle off Murrawe Jhon 
And Schyre Archebald off Dowglas 
That brodyr till Schyre Jamys was, 
Purchasyd§ thame a cumpany, 
A thowsand wycht men and hardy; 
Till Anand in a tranowntyng || 
Thai come on thame in the dawyng.1 
Thare war syndry gud men slayne 
Schyre Henry, the Ballyoll thame agayne, 
With a staffe fawcht sturdyly, 
And dyntis delt rycht dowchtyly, 
That men hym loved efftyr his day. 
Thare deyde Schyre Jhone than the Mowbray, 
And Alysawndyre the Brws wes tane. 
Bot the Ballyoll his gat is gane 
On a barme? hors wyth leggys bare, 
Swa fell that he ethchapyd? thare. 
The lave* that ware noucht tane in hand 
Fled qwhare thai mycht fynd warrand, 
Swa that all that cumpany, 
Dyscumfyt ware all halyly. 
Scotland was glad of this battle of Annan which rid her, for 
the time at least, of a king she did not want. He had a merry 
Christmas in Carlisle,* says the Lanercost Chronicle ; the com- 
munity loved him much for the great confusion he had brought 
upon the Scots after he invaded Scotland, although now that 
confusion had fallen upon himself. 
*Federa, 12th June, 1334. 
+One of the three ancient fords of the estuary now called Solway was at 
Annan, the Annan wath. Knyghton in Decem Scriptores, 2566. 
+Wyntoun, viii., ch. 26. 
gPurchasyd, procured. 
||CTranowntyng, journeying by night. 
In the dawyng, at dawn. Hn un aube de jour is the phrase of the 
Scalacronica. 
1Barme, saddleless. 
2Ethchappyd, escaped. 
3Lave, the rest. 
40hron. Lanercost, 271. 
