Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

- ' •' Ju.JlXSTONE TAKKX PKISONHK BY THE KNGLISIt, lolT. xliii
Johiisloue did not nllow liiiiiself to be taken without a struggle, as
"Wliartoii states that three spears were brolceu \ipon him, and he received a
wound in tlie upper part of the thigh. The letter farilicr snys :
"There v.-ns viij Scotis siayue and nianj- Inirte. Tlier ar four Eiiglishemen
Juut, uevcr one sLaync nor takyu. Tlioy brouglifc awaye dyverse parcellis ol
goodcs, nolte and slieipe. Tiie prisoueris v.-cre takyue xiiij myllcs within Scot-
land from Langholme ; Archebald Armestrang, yong lard of ]\[a!)gertone of Lydys-
daill, is the taker of the lard Johnstone.
prisoneris ^^•ith me in the town of Carlisle this Shire Thursday nyght ; yt may
—
• I havchyni, the abbot, and tlie princypall
please your lordshipes to curnand how the same .shalbe ordei-ed. The kyngis
maje.-tie now haith the Maxv.-ellis .and Jchnstoncs his hignes prisoneris who
haitlic borne a gret reuUe of the west partes of Scotland." ^
Within a few weeks after the capture thus narrated, the house of Loch-
wood itself, now comparatively deserted, was seized by an English, borderer .
and made tiic source of annoyance to the surrounding district. This was
Sir Thomas Carletou of Carleton Hall, Cumberland, who had made himself
very conspicuous as a lieutenant of Lord Wliarton. He acted as captain of
Carlaverock during its occupation by the English. In Pebruary 15-47 he
had, according to his osvn account, made "a road into Teviotdale and got a
great booty of goods." He had then remained for some time at Canonbie,
whence he v,-ent to Dumfries, v,here the people submit(:ed to him, and after
various other exploits in llie ueigldjourhood, he and his men returned to
Cauonbie. After the capture of Jolinstone, however, and the submission of
the country, this leader, vvlio tells his own story, began to consider Canonbie
" to be far from the enemy," and as every one in his vicinity had changed
sides, except the laird of Drumlanrig and Carlylc of Brydekirk, he " thought
it good to practise some way we might get some liold or castle, where we
might lie near the enemy." While thus practising, a man named Alexander
Armstrong, " son to Ill-Will Armstrong," told him, on the report of a resident
in Aunaudalc, that Lochwood, the late rc.;idence of John Johnstone of Johu-
' Orisin.-il lettei-, dated 7th April ]:.47, in Foeiago Minutes of Evidence, vol. i. pP- "03,
Puhlic Kccord Office, printcii in Annandalc 714.