Rutherfurds of that Ilk, and their cadets

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Sir John de Ruthirfurd was the fourth son of
Sir Richard. 1 He was a gallant soldier, and fought
against the English at the battle of Beauge in 1421,
where
Swinton laid the lance in rest
That tamed of yore the sparkling crest
Of Clarence's Plantagenet.
He fell with his kinsman, Sir John Turnbull, and
many other Scottish knights at Cravant, where
three thousand of his brave countrymen, deserted by
the rabble of all nationalities, were left to fight alone
and perish on the field of battle.
The fifth son, Nichol, was the founder of the
powerful and prosperous house of
HUNDALEE.
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John Ruthirfurd of Hundole, 1500.
Rutherford of Hundalee, 1600.
1 Sir Robert Douglas does not mention either of these two sons
of Sir Richard de Ruthirfurd, but he had not access probably to
the documents in which their names are mentioned, and consider-