488 Notes on Branxholme. By W. Eliott Lockhart. 



In spite of the assistance rendered by Buccleuch towards 

 tranquillizing the Borders, the feuds between the various clans 

 were the cause of frequent disturbance, and the king in following 

 out his policy, found it necessary to proceed against Buccleuch 

 and other chieftains. Buccleuch was therefore warded in the 

 Castle of Edinburgh. He was accused of having given assistance 

 to Lord Dacre. and the English at the time of the burning of 

 Cavers and Denholm, and appeared before the Justiciary Court at 

 Denholm on 1 9th April, 1 535. The king decided that he deserved 

 no further punishment than to be warded for a time. His im- 

 prisonment cannot have lasted very long, as in a letter from 

 Lard William Howard and Barlo to Crumwell, from Edin. 

 May 13th, 1536, they report that — 



" The Kynge hath lately delyvered forthe of prysone, the Lorde of 

 Bucklough, Marcke Carre the Larde of Sessforthe, and sent theym agayne 

 to the Borderes." 1 



He was again in ward in 1540, as by a letter of loth June, the 

 king gave him permission, being then in ward, to carry on 

 certain law proceedings. 2 Shortly before his death, which 

 occurred on 13th December 1542, the king relented towards Sir 

 Walter Scott, and ordered that he should be released from ward, 

 and restored to all his lands as before. This was confirmed 

 by Act of Parliament of Queen Mary, 15th March and ratified 

 12th December 1543. 3 



On the death of the king, Angus hoped and endeavoured to 

 recover his power, and to obtain the restoration of his lands. 

 Some of the Kerrs and others joined him and his Scoto-English 

 party, but Buccleuch held out, and in consequence a raid was 

 made on his lands in October 1543. 4 On the 9th Nov. 1543, 

 Queen Mary, with the consent of the Eegent Arran, appointed 

 Buccleuch, Captain and Keeper of the Castle of Newark, for 

 19 years, with certain lands. 5 In a letter from Hertford to 

 King Henry VIII. of 8th March, he recommended 



1 State Papers, Henry VIII., vol. v., part iv., p. 48, (from Chap. House 

 Misc. Letters, 2nd series, vol. xviii., leaf 335.) 



2 Scotts of Buccleuch, vol. n., p. 169. 3 Acts of Scottish Pari. vol. ii., 

 pp. 414, 433. 



4 State Papers, Henry VIII., vol. v., part iv., pp. 347-8. (Suffolk to 

 Angus, 13th Oct. 1543.) 



5 Scotts of Buccleuch, vol. I., p. 108; vol. II.. p. 180. 



