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ment of the Scottish army; a coincidence fully justifying what has been asserted in the Annals, "that the number of the Scots exceeded not 15000."*

It must not be dissembled, that Barnes has published a list of the Scottish army from a MS. at Cambridge, very different from the list in Hemingford and Knyghton.3 According to it, there were, besides the barons and knights whom those two historians mention, the numbers following :

This makes in all 56,640 men. The anonymous writer of this list was not satisfied with swelling the Scottish army to such an exorbitant amount; for he adds, that the Earl of March, keeper of the castle of Berwick, and Alexander Seton, captain of the town, brought 150 men at arms in aid of the Scots, and that the people of Berwick brought 400 men at arms, and 10,800 infantry; and thus, according to him, the Scots mustered at Halidon no fewer than 67,990 combatants.

These accounts are, in every respect, extravagant and incredible; and, being given by an anonymous writer, can never be placed in competition with the united testimonies of Hemingford and Knyghton.

Indeed, to suppose that, immediately after the carnage of Duplin, the Scots could assemble an army of near 70,000 combatants, is greatly to overrate the populousness and internal force of Scotland in that age. This is said, not to extenuate the disasters of the Scots, or invidiously to diminish the glory of the English arms, but from regard to historical truth.

In recording the names of the noble persons who fought for the Scottish cause at Halidon, I pay a just and pleasing tribute to patriotic, although unfortunate valour.*

* Their names are to be found in Hemingford and Knyghton, but so miserably disfigured by the ignorance of transcribers, that some of them can only be traced by conjecture, while others cannot be discovered at all. Fordun, L. xiii. c. 28. has given a very imperfect list, because, as he says, " nomina per singulos recitare magis lacrimabile quam expediens est:"

▲ See Abercromby, ii. 27.

FIRST BODY.

1. JOHN EARL OF MORAY, Commander.

2. James Fraser, killed

3. Simon Fraser, killed

4. Walter Stewart, killed

5. Reginald de Chene

6. Patrick de Graham

7. John Grant

8. John de Carlyle

9. Patrick

10. Robert de Caldecotes
11. Patrick de Meldrum

1. John Earl of Moray, son of the renowned Randolph. He succeeded his brother Thomas, slain at Gaskmore, which is vulgarly called the battle of Duplin. Hemingford and Knyghton concur in asserting that he was present at Halidon. Knyghton adds, that he was a very young man, " adhuc juvenis." Loece, and the later historians, suppose, that he was detained from the army by indisposition, and that one John de Moray commanded the first division of the Scots. But of this there is no probability. As the Earl of Moray was a young man, it may be presumed, that the two Frasers had the command of the first division. They are mentioned by Hemingford as being superior in rank to the other persons here mentioned.

2. James Frisel, or Fraser. He and Simon Fraser, both slain at Halidon, are said by Fordun, L. xiii. c. 28. to have been brothers. The received opinion is, that they were the sons of Sir Alexander Fraser slain at Duplin, and the nephews of Robert I. by their mother Mary Bruce.

3. Ancestor of the family of Lovat.

5. His name appears in the letter to the Pope 1320.

6. He is called Patrick de Graham by Hemingford; but Knyghton calls him Patrick de Graham seneth. This is corrupted: Perhaps it should be senior. He is probably that Patricius de Graham who joined in the letter to the Pope 1320.

9. Berechere, H.; Careter, Kn. Parker MS. quoted by Barnes, p. 78. 11. Philip, H.

12. Gareyne, Kn. Qu. Are not Garden, Gairn, and Jardin, all one and the same name?

13. Knyghton has Thomas Toker, which may be Thomas of Lochore, who appears in the parliament 1315. In enumerating the prisoners, Knyghton mentions Roger Kirkpatrick.

16. Garnegath, H.; Granegranche, Kn. Gramont MS. quoted by Barnes.

18. Probably that Robert Boyd who adhered to Robert Bruce during his greatest calamities, and who was rewarded by that monarch with the estate of Kilmarnock, and other lands, which had belonged to the Balliol family. In MS. Barnes, Brady.

1. As the Stewart of Scotland was then a youth just turned of sixteen, it cannot be supposed that the conduct of the second division, or centre, was committed to him. It is probable that his uncle actually commanded.

2. Sir James Stewart of Rossyth, brother of Walter Stewart

of Scotland.

3. This name is strangely corrupted in Knyghton. " Maclinus filius Andensis." Maclinus is Malcolinus or Malcolm. The rest of the name has been written Flandrensis, i. e. Fleming, which the transcriber has mistaken for Fil. Andensis.

4. Rather Archibald, the natural son of the renowned Sir

5. David de Lindesay
6. Duncan Campbell
7. John Stewart, killed
8. Alan Stewart, killed
9. William Ereskine

10. William Abernethy

11. William Morrice

12. Walter Fitz Gilbert

13. John de Kirketon, prisoner.
14. William Morrice de

THIRD BODY.

1. ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS LORD OF GALLOWAY, REGENT OF SCOTLAND, mortally wounded, and prisoner.

James Douglas. Knyghton calls him " filius Jacobi Douglas ejus," (i. e. ejusdem), or "James Douglas of Douglas." In Scala Chronica, he is erroneously numbered among the slain.

5. Eldest son of David Lindsay of Crawfurd.

7. Erroneously called James. It is said in Fordun, most absurdly, that James, John, and Alan Stewart, were brothers of Robert the Stewart of Scotland. This John Stewart is called of Daldon. MS. Barnes, Colden.

8. Called Adam by Knyghton. The person meant is Alan Stewart of Dreghorn, son of John Stewart of Bonkil, slain at Falkirk 1296. He was the ancestor of the Darnley family.

10. William Abernethy Lord of Salton. His name appears in the letter to the Pope 1320.

12. Of Cadiow, by grant from Robert Bruce; the ancestor of the Duke of Hamilton.

14. Distinguished from the other Morrice by the title of Glawlton. Qu.

1. Archibald Douglas, vulgarly called Tineman, brother of the renowned Sir James Douglas. Fordun, L. xiii. c. 28. mentions him among the slain; Knyghton, among the prisoners. It is probable that he was mortally wounded, and left on the field of battle.