Tue Barrie or Dornocx. 157 
available force of the country-side, ‘“ the flower of the soldiery of 
all Annandale,” as Bower’ puts it, was mustered under Douglas’s 
command. 
Probably there was no great difficulty in divining the road 
the Englishmen were going to take. At anyrate, when they 
reached the ford Douglas was there too, A smart engage- 
ment was the result, fought ‘near the vill of Drunnok at the 
Sandy wathe.”? 
It is from the mention of the “ wath” that I have been led to 
draw my inferences regarding the intention of the Englishmen to 
return into England by it. The battle was fought on Thursday, 
25th March, about three o’clock in the afternoon—circa horam 
nonam. A friend who has been good enough to compute the tides 
for me calculates that at that time, or a short while before, it was 
ebb, and the ford passable. The plan of the conductors of the 
expedition doubtless was to reach the ford at low water. The 
Scots, however, were at the ford as soon as they : the retiral was 
intercepted : battle was inevitable. 
The Scots made a sharp attack. By one account it would 
seem that they had a particular animosity against the captain of 
the invading expedition, and “fell with one accord and with one 
shout upon the person of Sir Antony.” But as the friar of 
Carlisle says—he who wrote the chronicle of Lanercost—‘“ Thanks 
to God and the stout help of the young men” the two Scottish 
knights, Boys and Jardine, were slain and 24 men-at-arms with 
them. Hemingburgh represents that the casualties greatly ex- 
ceeded this number. He adds William Carlyle to the list of dead, 
saying that 160 men were slain. Knyghton states the slaughtered 
Scots at 140. Baird and Douglas were captured with, says 
Hemingburgh, about 100 others. The rest were put to flight— 
base flight, of course, the Englishmen called it. 
On the English side it is recorded that only two esquires fell. 
These were Thomas of Plumland and John of Ormesby, the latter 
of whom had long been a thorn in the flesh to the Scots.? Their 
bodies, borne to Carlisle on horseback, were honourably buried 
1 Bower, u., 310. 
2 Juxta villam de Drunnok apud Sandywathe.—Lanercost Chron., 272. 
3 Qui semper ante fuerat stimulus in oculis Scoticorum.—Lanercost 
Chron., 273. 
