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448 LANAKKSHIRE.
Moorish King of Granada ; and he hastened to join him with his
retinue. On the 25th August, 1330, a battle took place near
Tebason, on the frontier of Andalusia. The Moors were defeated,
and Douglas joined in the pursuit. Taking from his neck the
silver casket which contained his precious charge, he threw it
before him, exclaiming, " Pass on before us, gallant heart, as thou
wert wont ; Douglas will follow thee or die." He fell, mortally
wounded. His body, recovered from the field, was carried to
Scotland and interred in the family aisle.
In the Douglas aisle a richly sculptured monument commemo-
rates Archibald Douglas, Duke of Touraine, fifth Earl of Douglas,
who died in 1438. He was one of the ambassadors to England, in
1424, in treaty for the ransom of James I. His monument is thus
inscribed : —
" Hie jacet Archibaldus Douglas, Dux Tourenise, Comes de
Douglas et Longville, Dominus Gallovidise, Wigtonise, et Annandiae,
locum tenens Regis iScotise, obiit 26 die mensis Junii, 1438."
On the south side of the aisle a tomb of exquisite workmanship
has the following legend : —
" Hie jacet magnus et potens princeps, Dominus Jacobus de
Douglas, Dux Toureniae et Comes de Douglas, Dominus Annandise,
Gallovidiae, Liddalise, Jedburg Forestise, de Balvenia; magnus
Wardanus, Dominus regni Scotise- versus Angliam, &c. ; qui obiit
24 die mensis Matii, anno Domini 1443."
James Douglas was brother of Archibald, tlie fifth Earl, to whose
estate and title he succeeded on the murder of his two sons in
the Castle of Edinburgh. His tomb presents recumbent statues of
himself and spouse, and figures of their ten children.
An inscription, in these words, commemorates the countess and
her children : —
" Hie jacet Domina Beatrix de Sinclair (filia Domini Henrici
Comitis Orcadum, Domini de Sinclair, &c.), Comitissa de Douglas,
et Avenise, Domina GaUovidise."
" Ha? sunt proles inter praedictos Dominum et Dominam gene-
ratse. Imo, Dominus Wilhelmus, primogenitus et ha^res dicti