Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

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the exulish a-t uiCKn;i!ir, loll. .\x.\i\-
.liiliu^tonc! nppenivd wiUi nliout 700 liieii, ami iiltlii.'Ugli tin.' Ei^^lisli warden's
.Ibrce consisted of 3000, the Scots avltc nblf to caufi.' ?;ie]i "my^.drdi.i" lliat
(lie raid to a great extent miscarried. 'Wliartou writes that they lost no
men, and hrunglit home twenty prisoners, but he desires that iu tlie mean-
time' no more"wavdayn roodes" may he. ordered,^ (Shortly after this mere
active and hirgcr expeditions were made by tlie J'highsh, and Wiiaiton had
liis revenge, hir (.ne furay, in April l."i-t4, upon Johnstone's lands on the
Vv'ater of ]\Ii]k resulted in llie hiiniiiig of threesenrc houses, with "muehu
good corn and cafail," while the marauders carried oil' ten jjrisoners, cigiity
iiolt, twelve liorses, and otlicr property.
Aboirt the same time, an encouirter tools place bel\^een the Sculs and
I'higlish at Lockerbie, in vhiidi the Johnstoncs took part, though it is not
said that Johnstone ^va.s there in )>erson. The com'lict was a ^ery sharp one,
and the Scots appear to have had the best of it, taking a number of prisoners.-
roUowing npoii this Lord Alaxwell, to "Wharton's great disgirst, niadc a
sudden agreement with Johnstone, although a little while before the English
warden had described thern to the Earl of llertfurd as deadly enemies. "I
liavc hard," he says, ''Robert Maxwell hym self soundre tymes say so, and
speak anempst the Lard Johnston the worst wordes that could be said, and
Ihrelenyd that he wold cause hymc to be shine. A litle af^ire the Lord
Maxwells cummyng to yoirr lordshijic they wer enncmyes." It would
aj'pear that a message from Lord ]\Iaxwell, sent by John jMaxwell of Cow-
hill, was the cause of this sudden reconciliation.^' Wharlou was more than
ever embittered against Johnstone on this account, and he wrote to Hertford
that he v,-ould "do no lessc tlien to thuttermost" for the annoyance of John-
stone and his adherents, who were to be the first to suffer.
From the English ward'.-n's account of a remarkable inter vie vr and con-
verjalion with Sir Walter Scott of Bucelcuch, we learn that Johnstone was
•conjoined in a league v>-itli Buccleneh and other border chieftains all bound
' Hamilton Papers, vol. ii. pp. 2S1, 2S2. - ll'id. pp. 7"2j, 72G. ' //•/'/. p. 7^5.