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NOTES TO TENTH BOOK (1010-1097).
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as the ‘Calendar’ shows, was dead before 20th January 1298-99.
Clearly lang is here an epithet—cp. ix. 1551.
1010. Persoun is a misprint {ox presoun.
1011. Thomas Randolph was not at this time Earl of Moray.
1012. LordFrysaill—i.e., Frizel, or Fraser. It is difficult to say who
is meant. Sir Simon Fraser seems from the ‘Calendar’ to have con¬
tinued faithful to Edward until 1302. In 1305 he was ordered to go
into exile for four years.
1013. Hugh de la Haye was the brother of Gilbert de la Haye, Earl
of Errol. Both were strong supporters of Bruce. Neither of them
seems to have espoused the “ patriotic ” cause until Bruce’s time.
1022. Fyllorth. Philorth, in Buchan, near Fraserburgh. The estate
has belonged to the Frasers since the latter half of the 14th century.
1025. Cliniace. In editions 1594 and 1620 it is Clement, both here
and in xi. 743. I can find no trace of the name Climace.
1030. Stokfurd. I cannot identify this place.
1039. Abyrnelhe. Sir Alexander de Abernethy was (‘ Calendar,’ No.
1463) instructed by Edward, in March 1303-4, to receive Wallace if he
submitted unconditionally.
1043. Justene—this means jousting. Justene off pees, that is peace¬
ful jousting—not a outrance. Justene is not in J.’s Diet. He has
jousting, but quotes only Lindsay for it.
1065. Edward was at Perth in 1303, but there is no corroboration of
his appointment of the Earl of York captain from Tay to Dee. There
is no mention, so far as I can see, of an Earl of York in connection
with the War of Independence.
1071. Henry de Beaumont married the daughter of Alexander Comyn,
Earl of Buchan. See Wynt., vol. ii. p. 310, and vol. iii. p. 276. I doubt
if Beaumont was Earl of Buchan before Wallace’s death, as a Comyn,
Earl of Buchan, fought against Bruce in 1308.
1075. Clifford was Warden of Lochmaben and Annandale, but the
‘ Calendar’ (No. 1088) shows that his term of office expired before the
date 1303 at which we are now arrived.
1077. Part of Galloway belonged to Alexander Comyn, as the
husband of one of the daughters of De Quincy.
1079. Lamberton, Bishop of St Andrews, succeeded Bishop Fraser
about the end of 1297. Lamberton was one of the Guardians appointed
by the Scottish barons after Wallace resigned in 1298.
1082. Barbour also says Sir James Douglas was sent to Paris (i. 345),
and that Lamberton went to Edward at Stirling as Harry describes
(i. 415).
1094. Cp. 1. 1009 of this Book, and the note there.
1097. LordSoullis. If this is Sir John de Soullis, the ‘Calendar'
shows that up to 1303 he was for a few years opposed to Edward, but
in March of that year “ came to his peace.” There is nothing to show
that he received the Merse from Edward. He was one of those who