326 WILD WHITE CATTLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



time of Leslie ; and that of Cumbernauld was at the 

 same time seriously trespassed upon. It appears that 

 it is stated in a MS. in the Fleming archives that the 

 devastations of the Eegent Murray on " My Lord 

 Fleming's bourdis" were such "that no heart can think 

 thereon but the same must be dolorous." Murray was 

 succeeded as Eegent by the Earl of Lennox ; and there 

 is in the Public Record Office in London a State Paper, 

 which I have examined, containing a series of fourteen 

 charges brought against him by the English Court for 

 breach of faith. The date of this document is either 

 November 28th or early in December, 1570; and the 

 heading is as follows * : — 



"A brefe note of the thinges done be th'erle of 

 Lennox and his adherentes contrar to their promises 

 made to the erle of Sussex livetenant to the Q Ma te of 

 Ingland by the quilk they have violated and broken the 

 abstinence subscrived be the said erle of Lennox which 

 was promised to be keped bona fide." 



The charges brought against the earl were of 

 various kinds, such as summoning a Parliament, levying 

 taxes, calling the Queen of Scots' subjects to appear 

 before him, and on their refusal seizing their goods and 

 harrying their lands, &c. The following was one of 

 them : — 



" And amonges others greite enormyties perpetrated 

 be th' erles men of werre they have slayne and destroyed 

 the dere in John Fleming's forest of Cummernald and 

 the white kye and bulles of the saide forest to the greit 

 destruction of police and hinder of the common wele 

 for that kinde of kye and bulles has bene thir mony 



* State Papers, Public Eecord Office : Mary Queen of Scots, vol. v., 

 No. 92. 



