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INTRODUCTION. IX
ful. The Earl, grown old in exile, longed once
more to see his native country, and vowed, that,
upon Saint Magdalen's day, he would deposit his l*8S
offering on the high altar at Lochmaben. Accom-
panied by the banished Earl of Albany, with his
usual fortune, he entered Scotland. The Border-
ers assembled to oppose him, and he suffered a
final defeat at Burnswark, in Dumfries-shire. The
aged Earl was taken in the fight, by a son of Kirk-
patrick of Closeburn, one of his own vassals, A
grant of lands had been oflered for his person :
" Carry me to the King !" said Douglas to Kirkpa-
trick : " thou art well entitled to profit by my mis-
fortune ; for thou v/ast true to me while I was true
difterence of their complexion occasioned the saying, " that
the Black Douglas had put dov.-n the Red." The Maxwells,
the Johnstones, and the Scotts, composed his army. Archi-
bald, Earl of JMurray, brother to Douglas, was slain in the
action ; and Hugh, Earl of Ormond, his second brother, was
taken and executed. His captors. Lord Carlisle, and the
Baron of Johnstone, were rewarded with a grant of the lands
of Pittinane, upon Clyde. — Godscroft, vol. I. p. 375. — Bal-
four s MS. in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. — Abercrom~
bie's Achievements, vol. II. p. 361.. Jblio Edition. — The other
chiefs were also distinguished by royal favour. By a charter,
upon record, dated 25th February, 15i8, the king grants to
Walter Scott of Kirkurd, ancestor of the house of Buccleuch,
the lands of Abingtown, Pharchulm, and Glcntonan craig, in