Historical and genealogical account of the principal families of the name of Kennedy

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dated at Falkland, Jun. 4, 1600. These lands are there stated as lying in the
lordship of Kyles-muir, and shire of Air ; and to have fallen into the hands of
the King, as coming in place of the Monastery of Melrose, under the late Act of
Annexation. It is prohahle that this was the son of John Dick mentioned in the
text. 1 It is proper, however, to mention, that, in the Acts of Privy Council, he
is designed ' Johne Dik of Barbefburne.'
HAIK.ITT ANE LANSE AT HIM, &C IBID.
Dick hurled a lance 2 at Bargany, which struck him through the throat and
wind-pipe. Bargany was at this time engaged with Redpath and Crawford ;
and he, heing solely hent on defending himself from their attacks, paid no atten-
tion to Dick ; he being a person beneath him in rank, and besides, was one who
was not then immediately assailing him.
THROW THE CONDEITT OF THE THROPPILL, &C. IBID.
Had the wound been of the precise nature which cne would naturally infer,
from a slight perusal of the preceding passage, death must have ensued almost
instantaneously, by the flow of blood down the wind-pipe into the lungs ; which
accident must of course have caused immediate suffocation. The blow, therefore,
must have been dealt in a sloping direction, and in such a manner as to pene-
trate the gullet ; through which the blood would readily flow into the stomach.
In either case, it is remarkable that Bargany, suffering under such a frightful
wound, should have lingered so long, especially when the art of Surgery was
then at so low an ebb in Carrick.
AUCHINDRAYNE, NOCHT KNAWING, &C. P. 50.
According to his usual line of policy, Auchindrayne embraced the conditions
proposed to him, with apparent eagerness ; well aware, that ' ony thiDg he did
in captiuity wes null !' This gratuitous ruse de guerre, however, he performed
1 Reg. Mag. Sig. lxii. 160. ! Threw or cast it like a. javelin, and contrary to the
usual mode of fighting with a lance, where the party, after having fixed it in its rest, charged
his antagonist.