Oft shrouds such thoughts as thou hast now,
Whose hearts within are seldom cured
Of passions by their vows abjured;
Where under sad and solemn show
Vain hopes are nursed, wild wishes glow.
Seek the Convent’s vaulted room,
Prayer and vigil be thy doom;
Doff the green and don the grey,
To the Cloister hence away!”
Perhaps not the least bitter of his reflections in his enforced
solitude would be that his defeat had been brought about through the
treachery of his kinsman, the Earl of Angus, who had joined with the
King against him. The members of the Angus branch were notable for the
fairness of their complexions, whilst the Clydesdale Douglases were
swarthy and dark in colour. Hence the saying came into use after the
fall of Earl James that “the Red Douglas had put down the Black.” The
family historian endeavours to turn a graceful compliment out of this
fact, with which the account of the Douglases in Bothwell Castle may be
terminated:--
“Pompey by Caesar only was o’ercome;
None but a Roman soldier conquered Rome;
A Douglas could not have been brought so low
Had not a Douglas wrought his overthrow.”
The estates that had belonged to the Earl of Douglas, and were
forfeited in 1455, at the time of his departure for England, fell to
the Crown, and King James had taken the opportunity of partitioning
these so as to secure some doubtful adherents. Crichton, the son of the
Chancellor who had compassed the murders of the two Earls, received
Bothwell Castle as the tardy reward of his father’s treachery; and Sir
James Hamilton of Cadzow, who abandoned the cause of Douglas at this
time, exchanged the lands of Kingswell for those of Bothwell Forest,
whilst the lands of Galloway were annexed to the Crown.
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INDEX
(_Numbers indicate pages._)
Airlie, Earl of, 75
Albany, Duke of, 92, 179, 248
Angus, Earl of, 38, 180, 327
Arran, Earl of, 40, 157
Argyll, Earl of, 97, 116
Argyll, Marquess of, 159
Balfour of Burleigh, 25
Ballengeich, Gudeman of, 94
Balliol, Edward, 156, 214
Balliol, John, 21, 35, 90
Barefoot, Magnus, 87
Beaton, Archbishop David, 223, 224
Beaton, Archbishop James, 222
“Black Agnes,” 242, 245
Blackie, Professor, 154
Bothwell, Earl of, 188, 255
Bruce, King David, 91
Bruce, Michael, 30
Bruce, King Robert, 73, 91, 155
Bute, Marquess of, 99
Caird, Sir James, 309
Calder, Abduction of Muriella, 272
Campbell, Sir Neil, 73
Campbell Clan, 73, 258
Cawdor Castle, 271
Charles I., 73
Chisholm Clan, 165
Crawford, Captain, 43
Dacre, Lord, 127
Darnley, Henry, 10, 38, 250
David II., 38
D’Essé, General, 129
Douglas, Earl of, 135, 195, 320
Douglas, Gawain, 219, 221
Dundee, Viscount, 167, 303
Edward I., 21, 35, 125
Erca, Lady, 83
Fleming, Lord, 42
Flying Attempt, 199
Geoffrey, of Monmouth, 34
Graham Clan, 78
Graham of Fintry, 308
Grainger, Mrs, 65
Gray, Master of, 291
Hako, of Norway, 89, 150
Hays of Yester, 50
James I., 194
James III., 13, 198
James IV., 13
James V., 94, 199
James VI., 25, 64
Keiths, Earls Marischal, 58, 61, 65
Ker of Fernieherst, 127, 131
Knox, John, 227
Lamberton, Bishop, 212
Lamont Clan, 159
Lennox, Earl, 35, 36
Lyndsay, Sir David, 225
MacGregor Clan, 113
Maclean Clan, 173
Macnaughton Clan, 105
Macpherson, James, 33
Malcolm Ceanmor, 234
Mary of Guise, 96
Mary Queen of Scots, 10, 30, 158, 250
Menteith, Sir John, 35
Monck, General, 63, 183, 203
Mons Meg, 137
Montrose, Marquess of, 62
Mortimer, Catherine, 38
Motherwell, William, 14
Nithsdale, Lord, 139
Ogilvy, Lord, 76
Ogilvy, Sir George, 64
Ossian, 32, 144
Piper of Dumbarton, 40
Pittendreich Farm, 28
Prince Charlie, 106, 203
Ramsay, Sir Alex., 187, 245
Rizzio, 13
Rothesay, Duke of, 92, 215, 247, 320
St Blane’s Chapel, 84
St Chattan, 83
Salisbury, Earl of, 244
Scott, Sir Walter, 17
Scott of Tushielaw, 54
Stewart, Mary, _see_ Mary
Stewart, Sir William, 44
Strivelin, John de, 21
Victoria, Queen, 45, 204
Vipont, Alan, 21
Wallace, Sir William, 35, 60
Wyntoun, Andrew, 20, 211
York, Duke of, 23, 96, 166, 203
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Transcriber's Notes:
Italics are shown thus: _sloping_.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.
Perceived typographical errors have been changed.