History and traditions of the land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns

EDZELL — THE FIRST EARL OF CRAWFORD. 29
of Crawford being the third created since the extinction of the
Celtic dynasty, that of Douglas having been the second, and
Moray the first."*
It is not our intention to dwell on the valorous actions which
characterised the life of this celebrated nobleman — his overthrow
of Lord Welles at the famous tournament at London Bridge,
which took place on the feast of St. George, in 1395, in presence
of King Richard and " Good " Queen Anne — and his dreadful
onset with the natural son of the Wolf of Badenoch (his own
near relative, through his aunt's marriage with Robert de
Atholia), at Glenbrierachan, in the Stormont, when Ogilvy, the
Sheriff of Angus, and his uterine brother, Leighton of Ulis-
haven, and many other Angus barons, were slain, and from
which Sir David Lindsay and Sir Patrick Gray very narrowly
escaped with their lives — are so beautifully and effectively de-
scribed by his noble kinsman, that the reader is respectfully re-
ferred to Lord Lindsay's " Lives" for these particulars, as well
as for more important notices of the many great achievments
of the other illustrious members of the family, which can only
be briefly noticed in the following pages.
The brother of Sir David, or the first Earl of Crawford, and
second son of Catherine Stirling, was " Yowng Alysawndyr the
Lyndyssay," who, along with his cousin, Sir Thomas Erskyne,
and several others, attacked the English, under the Duke of
Lancaster, near Queensferry, in the year 1384 ; and though
greatly inferior in numbers, by surprising them almost imme-
diately on leaving their ships, they completely routed them in
the manner thus quaintly described by Wyntown : —
" Bot thai, that had his cummyn sene,
Tuk on thame the flycht bedene,
And til the se thame sped in hy.
Bot Schyr Thomas sa hastyly
Come on, and swa thame turnyd atrayne,
That a gret part of thame war slayne.
Sum tane, and sum drownyd ware :
Few gat til thare schyppis thare.
Welle fourty hangyd on a rape,
Swa yharnyd thai for ethchape ;
Bot ane, that wes in-til a hate,
Sa dowtand wes iu that debate,
* Lives, vol. i, p. 97.