Source:Scotichronicon (Lib. XV, Cap. XXI)

"Lib. XV, Cap. XXI" Scotichronicon (Goodall vol. 2)

CAP. XXI. De deftructione caftri de Fedwod, et reftitutione caftri de Dunbar comiti, et de bello de Harlaw.

Anno Domini mccccix. captum eft caftrum de Jedwod quàm feliciter per mediocres Thevidaliæ, et ad terram proftratum , quod remanfit in manibus Anglicorum à bello de Durham . Sed quia camentum ipfius valde tenax et durum erat, non fine maximo labore fractum fuit et comminutum . Ad quod dirimendum conclufum fuit in concilio generali tento apud Perth, pro taxa levanda, ne fortè An- , glici reædificarent illud , videlicet duorum denariorum de unaquaque domo focali. Cui reftitit gubernator , dicens , " quòd nunquam , tem-. pore fuæ gubernationis , fuerat taxa levata , nec etiam levaretur, ne. pauperes fibi maledicerent, qui talem abufum introduceret ." Sed ftatim affignavit Marchianis de cuftumis regiis expenſas fieri pro direptione caftri . Unde benedictiones plebium quæfivit fuper numerum . Eodem anno dominus Georgius comes Marchiæ reftitutus eft ad caftrum fuum de Dunbar et ad comitatum Marchiæ, non tamen fine , aliquali dimembratione poffeffionum ipfius : nam antequam Archibaldus II. hoc nomine comes de Douglas ad hoc confentiret , in fafinam recepit pro fe et heredibus mafculis de corpore fuo , in recompenfatio- , nem caftri de Dunbar, caftrum de Lochmaban, cum toto dominio vallis Annandiæ. Et quia Walterus de Haliburton dominus de Dirlton, gener tunc gubernatoris, qui defponfavit filiam ejus Ifabellam comitiffam de Rofs , fuit mediator inter ipfum comitem Marchiæ et gu-. bernatorem , poffcffionem fufcepit hereditariam quadraginta libratarum terrarum in villa de Brigeam, fibi et heredibus perpetuè remanfuram .

Eodem anno fuit validus ventus in die S. Kentigerni , cujus impetuofâ procellâ arbores filvarum radicitùs funt evulfæ, domus et ecclefiæ diruta, naves et batellæ fubmerfæ. Excuffit etiam gabulum auftrale magnæ ecclefiæ monafterialis Sancti Andreæ, cujus vehementiâ grandes lapides corruentes, perforaverunt dormitorium et etiam inferius capellum . In quo paulo ante et à cafu feceffit venerabilis vir D. Thomas de Cupro canonicus et fub-prior domûs, licentiatus in decretis, qui multitudine ac gravitate cafûs lapidum præventus, contritus et conquaffatus fuit in fcapulis et in tibiis ; quibus infra paucos dies fpiritum exhalavit.

Anno D. millefimo quadringentefimo decimo, Patricius de Dunbar, filius dicti comitis Marchiæ, non minus fubtiliter quàm viriliter cepit fortalicium de Faftcaftell, capto capitaneo ejufdem Anglico , qui Thomas Holden vocabatur, qui multa mala in Laudonia tempore quo ftetit perpetravit, tam per mare quàm per terram . Eodem anno cafualiter incenfa eft villa de Cupro.

Anno Dom . millefimo quadringentefimo undecimo, in vigilia Sancti Jacobi Apoftoli, conflictus de Harlaw in Marria, ubi Dovenaldus de Infulis cum decem millibus de infulanis et hominibus fuis de Rofs hoftiliter intravit terram cis montes, omnia conculcans et depopulans, ac in vaftitatem redigens ; fperens in illa expeditione villam regiam de Abirdene fpoliare, et confequenter ufque ad aquam de Thaya fuæ fubjicere ditioni . Et quia in tanta multitudine ferali occupaverunt terram ficut locuftæ, conturbati funt omnes de dominica terra qui videbant eos , et timuit omnis homo . Cui occurrit Alexander Stewart comes de Marr, cum Alexandro Ogilby vicecomite de Angus, qui femper et ubique juftitiam dilexit, cum poteftate de Mar et Garioch, Angus et Mernis , et , facto acerrimo congreffu , occifi funt ex parte comitis de Mar Jacobus Scrymgeour conftabularius de Dundé, Alexander de Irevin, Robertus de Malvile et Thomas Murrave milites, Willelmus de Abirnethy filius er heres domini de Salton et nepos gubernatoris, Alexander Straiton D. de Lauranſton , Georgius de Ogilby heres domini ejufdem , Jacobus Luvale, Alexander de Strivelyn , et alii valentes armigeri, necnon Robertus David conful de Abirdene, cum multis burgenfibus. De parte infulanorum cecidit armidoctor , Maclane nomine, et dominus Dovenaldus capitaneus fugatus, ct ex parte ejus occifi nongenti et ultra, ex parte noftra quingenti, et fere omnes generofi de Buchane. De hoc bello metra :

Anno milleno, quater C. et X. fimul uno,

In fefto Jacobifuit hæc victoria belli.

Incontinenter poft bellum , dux Albaniæ gubernator , congregato exercitu, acceffit ad caftrum de Dingvall, quod fuit domini Infularum †, et illud recepit, et eidem cuftodiam deputavit in fine autumni. Et in fequenti æftate collegit tres exercitus, ad invadendum dominum Infularum cui idem occurrit apud Polgylbe, et de pace confervanda et

indemnitate liegiorum regis juramenta et obfides præftitit.

Translation:

Of the destruction of the castle of Fedwod, and the restoration of the castle of the Earl of Dunbar, and of the war of Harlaw.

In the year of the Lord The army of Jedwod was captured with success through the middle of Thevidalia, and driven to the ground, which remained in the hands of the English since the battle of Durham. But because the cauldron was very tenacious and hard, it was not until the end that it was broken and crushed with great effort. To resolve which it was concluded in a general council held at Perth, that a tax should be raised, lest the English should rebuild it, that is to say, of two pence for each hearth-house. To whom the governor retorted, saying, "that never, during the time of the government, had the tax been raised, nor would it be raised, lest the poor should curse the fibi who introduced such an abomination." But at once he determined that the expenses of the Marchiani should be made out of the royal coats of arms for the plundering of the caftre. Wherefore he sought the blessings of the multitude beyond their number. In the same year the lord George, earl of the Marquis, was restored to the office of the fuus of Dunbar and to the county of the Marquis, but not at the end, by some division of the poffeffions, for before Archibald II. with this name the earl of Douglas had agreed to this, he received in a bond for the fealty and heirs of the mafculis of my body, in recompense, the caftre of Dunbar, the caftre of Lochmaban, with the whole dominion of the valley of Annandie. And because Walter de Haliburton, lord of Dirlton, son-in-law of the governor at that time, who married his daughter Ifabella, countess of Rofs, was a mediator between the first earl of the Marquis and the governor. Bernator, poffcffion, he received a hereditary estate of forty pounds of land in the town of Bruges, to remain to him and his heirs in perpetuity.

In the same year there was a strong wind on the day of St. Kentigern, in whose impetuous gale trees were uprooted, houses and churches were destroyed, and ships and boats were destroyed. He also excavated the aftral shaft of the great monafterial church of Saint Andrew, the great stones falling down with the force of which pierced the dormitories and also the chapel below. In which a little before and at the cafu the venerable man D. Thomas de Cupro, canon and fub-prior, made a house, licensed in decrees, who was prevented by the multitude and gravity of the cafus stones, crushed and crushed in the fcaps and in the pipes; after which he breathed his last a few days later.

In the year D. one thousand and four hundred and ten, Patrick de Dunbar, son of the aforesaid earl of the Marquis, took the fort of Faftcaftell, no less futilely than manfully, by capturing an English captain named Thomas Holden, who perpetrated many evils in Laudonia during the time he lived, both by sea and by sea. through the earth In the same year the town of Cupra was founded as a cafual.

In the year Dom. In the eleventh thousand four hundred and eleventh, on the vigil of St. James Apoftoli, the conflict of Harlaw in Marria, where Dovenald of Infuli with ten thousand of the Infuli and men who were from Rofs entered the land of these mountains with great speed, trampling and destroying everything, and reducing it to waste; carrying out in that expedition to plunder the royal town of Abirdene, and in the end to secure the control of the water of Thaya. And because the wild beasts occupied the land in such a large number as the luxuries, all those who saw them were troubled about the Lord's land, and every man was afraid. Alexander Stewart, earl of Marr, met him with Alexander Ogilby, sheriff of Angus, who always and everywhere loved juftity, with the power of Mar and Garioch, Angus and Mernis, and, having made a most vigorous gathering, they were slain on the part of the earl of Mar, Jacobus Scrymgeour Dunde, Alexander de Irevin, Robert de Malvile and Thomas Murrave soldiers, William de Abirnethy, son and heir of the lord of Salton and grandson of the governor, Alexander Straiton D. of Lauranſton, George de Ogilby the heir of the same lord, James Luvale, Alexander de Strivelyn, and others valiant men-at-arms, as well as Robert David conful of Abirdene, with many burgesses. On the side of the Infulani fell a master-at-arms, named Maclane, and Lord Dovenaldus, the captain, was put to flight, and on his side nine hundred men and more, on the other side five hundred, and nearly all the sons-in-law of Buchan. About this war meters:

In the year one thousand, four hundred and one hundred and one This was the victory of the war in the heat of Jacob.

As soon as the war broke out, the general of the Albanians, having assembled an army, went to the camp of Dingvall, which belonged to the lords of the Infula, and took it back, and deputed it for the same day at the end of the autumn. And in the following year he assembled three armies to invade the lord of the Infulae, whom he met at Polgylb, and he obtained oaths and pledges of peace and indemnification of the king's lieutenants.

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• Bower, Walter (1759) [c. 1447]. Goodall, Walter (ed.). Joannis de Fordun Scotichronicon, cum Supplementis ac Continuatione Walteri Boweri, Inſulæ Sancti Columbæ Abbatis : E Codicibus MSS. editum, cum notis et variantibus lectionibus (in Latina). II. Edinburgh: R. Fleming. hdl:2027/nyp.33433006210425.