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66 THE HISTORY OF THE AFFAIRS [1542-3.
flay of January 1542-3, having in their way dined at Enfield,
in order to see the young Prince, whose cause they were to
take in hand. And in their company, and under the same
obligations, returned Archibald Earl of Angus, brother-in-
law to King Henry, and his brother, Sir George Douglas,
who had been exiles in England for the space of above
fourteen years, with letters from the King of England, con-
taining a request for their restitution to their lands, liber-
ties, &c.
The Lords 1 arrived at Edinburgh about the middle of
1 These were the Earls of Cassillis and Glencairn, the Lords Somerville,
Maxwell, Gray, Oliphant, and Fleming. It doth not appear by Mr Sadler's
negotiations that any other of the Scottish prisoners were sent home on
this errand ; however, I shall, for the satisfaction of the reader, set down
here from the " Fcedera Anglia;," the names of the other principal persons,
together with the sums stipulated for their ransoms, by the ambassadors
of Scotland, at the time that the treaties of marriage and commerce were
agreed upon this summer, at Avhich time the ransoms for the above Noble-
men, viz. — Cassillis, <xc. were stipulated also ; by which it would appear
that they had been dismissed by King Henry upon their single parole, at
least till they came to Newcastle, where they remained till their hostages
came thither. Earls of Cassillis and Glencairn at L.1000 each ; Lords
Somerville, Maxwell, and Fleming, 1000 merks each ; Lord Gray, L.500 ;
Lord Oliphant, 800 merks ; Oliver Sinclair, L.500 ; George Home Lord
of Ayton, L.200 ; Robert Erskine, son and heir to the Lord Erskiiic,
L.200 ; William Seton, 200 merks ; Patrick Hepburn, 500 merks ; James
Pringle, 400 merks ; James Sinclair, L.100 ; Alexander Sinclair, L.100 ;
John Maitland, L — d of Awn Castle, 200 merks ; Henry Maxwell, brother
to the Lord Maxwell, L.100 ; John Ross Lord Craigie, the Lord Monkereth,
William Monteith, Lord of Carsy, 300 merks each ; John Leslie, younger
son to the Earl of Rothes, 200 merks ; John Carmichael, eldest son to the
Captain of Crawford, L.200, all sterling money. And it was agreed that,
in case the English prisoners be taxed at a lower rate in Scotland, the
sums above limited shall be abated in proportion ; and likewise that the
prisoners of Scotland shall be used with such gentleness as shall be shewed
to the prisoners of England. This last clause would seem to make it
evident that those other Scottish prisoners here mentioned, were yet de-
tained in captivity, except the seven Noblemen first mentioned, and per-
haps Oliver Sinclair. — [Rymer's " Fcedera," folio, 1712, vol. xiv. p. 796,
797. John Maitland is designated Matland of Au-yn Castle. The object
of Bishop Keith, in printing him as L — d,hy which he must have intended
Lord or Laird, is not apparent. George Home, " Lord of Ayton ;" John
Ross, "Lord of Craigie ;" the " Lord Monkereth," and William Monteith,
Lord of Carsy, were not Noblemen, but simply landed proprietors, small
Barons, or Lairds, as they were designated in Scotland, and of the same
rank as the Lord of a Manor in England, or simply count r;/ gt wtlt nu n. The
" Lord Monkereth," or " Laird Monkereth," is evidently Maxwell of Man-
rcith, ancestor of the Maxwells, Baronets of Monreith, in Wigtonshire.
There is, however, another Monreith in Dumfries-shire. — (Index Locorum
— Dumfries — Abbrevatio [nquisitionum Retornatarum, folio, vol. i. 102,
266, 34G). George Home, " Lord of Ayton," was the descendant of George