Biggar and the House of Fleming

HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE FLEMING FAMILY. 509
him his retainers and friends. Angus at once ordered him to
depart on the pain of treason, and on his refusal, a combat
ensued ; but Buccleuch in the end was routed, and eighty of
his men slain.
The Scots, about this period, warmly resented the inter-
ference of Henry VIII. in their national affairs ; and the con-
sequence was, that a war ensued between the two kingdoms.
The inhabitants of the Biggar district have ever been distin-
guished for their loyalty to their sovereign, and for their con-
tendings in behalf of their native country ; and therefore one
is surprised to find that about seventy of them were arraigned
for treasonable intercourse, during the war, " with Alexander
Forrester, Jonkin Storie, and others their accomplices, Inglish-
men and traitors, dwelling upon levine and reset of them
within the realm." The names of the principal parties ar-
raigned were, Malcolm Lord Fleming, James Murray of Fawlo-
hill, Gilbert Brown of Threpland, Andrew Brown of Hartree,
Richard Brown of Coultermains, Patrick Porteous of Hawkshaw,
Walter Hunter of Pohnood, James Kincaid, the Laird of
Crympcramp, John Murray of Lewinshope, William Murray of
Sundhope, William Boyd of Bathenheugh, William Carwood of
that Ilk, and William Murray of Romrnano. On the 1 6th of
August 1526, a respite was granted them for nineteen years ;
and it does not appear that they were ever subjected to any
further legal proceedings, from which we are apt to believe
that the accusations brought against them were unfounded.
On the 12th of August 1525, Lord Fleming obtained a
charter of the demense lands of Easter Drummelzier, the Castle
of "Tynnes," and the lands of " Hopcalgeoch," in Peeblesshire.
Two years afterwards he received the superiority of the lands
of Logan, Mossfennan, Quarter, and Chapelgill. On the 1st of
December 1531, James V. by an instrument under the great
seal dated at Perth, granted to him and his heirs, the Sheriff-
ship of Tweeddale and Peebles.
Lord Fleming advanced a sum of money to the Earl of
Morton, on condition that he would give his Lordship certain of
his lands in security, but the Earl failing to fulfil his agree-
ment, James V. wrote a letter from Edinburgh, on the 11th
of October 1532, to his half sister, the countess of Morton,
condemning the conduct of her husband, and also censuring