Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

XX JUII.N JOTI.NSTO-XE'ui' JuiiX.STOXli', 115-1-1493.
OUoiVturu betwoc-n Doiigliis and Percy, vlien tht: very name of'llie ])ongl;is
gained the field.. Eut in tliis expectation both Albany and Douglas were
disappointed. The insurreetiou wa.s quelled. Albany escaped witli his life
by liie Jleclncsi of hi.? lior.'je. Douglas Ava.s captured and Inouglit before
King Janie.s the Third as a prisoner and seidenced to inii;risonjuent. in
Lindores Abbey. Douglas recei\i_'d his doom meekly, and .simply replied,
" lie tliat may no better be must, be a monk."
In return, probably, for his services against the Douglases, this active and
cneigetic Johnstone chief vas the recipient of various grants frou King James
tlie Second. He did not immediately make up liis feudal titles to his lands
on Ids fatlier's death. He received a remission of the noa-eutry duties of
Jchnstone-teneuicnt and Ijcl-tencment, amounting together to £22, 13s. -id.
The king also remitted to him £S5, Gs. 8d., the relief duty on the lands
of Johnstone and Kirkpatriclc, and also £-12, 13s. 4d., the amount oi the rents
exigible v.diile the lauds were in the hands of the kiug.^ He also received a
grant of the ward of the lands of Drumgrey, valued at £34, Cs.^
Tids Johnstone clnef, like his iatlicr, acted as one of the conservators of
the truce concluded with England during the year 1457.^ lu the same year
he was iu Edinburgh, where he formed one of a jury who retoured George
Moflat as heir to his grandfather, Thomas Mofiat, in 12 inerks yearly from
the customs of Edinburgh.^ In 14C9 lie was present in Edinburgh in the
parliament ^diich passed sentence of forfeiture agahist tjic family of Boyd,
who Ijad for some time wielded the chief power in Scotland during the
niiuority of King James the Third. He was also a member of the parlia-
n:cut of 1 IT 1.5
Like other Scotcli borderers this Johnstone chief, while engaged in the
Exchequer Rolls, vol. vi. pp. C-2, G.S, 'JTi:, 273.
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