Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

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J0}1N JOIINSI'O.X);, KI!;ST WAKl'KN, i52t-15CV.
signal defeat. .Dirr'iifiTe.s:>liire, inchuling ^^iinanvlfilo, vas almost wholly
iindev English rule, and Jolnistone appenvs to ]ia\-e i-esigiied himself to the
inevitalile. 'Wharlou wrik'S of hi,'-!! in a letl.or,^v,hich is uiifoi-tunatcly much
toiu, " the larue Johusione is a good examjilc upon thes hiarches," the reason
apparenilj- being that having lost his house and his property, he liad, for
the time, desired to swear allegiance to the English monarch. Lord Wharton
adds, "I receyvid oollic of iiyme before a grct nombre of people ; all his men
Nvas afore svvorne, and thare hostages laide, yet I wold that he, being
presoner, and now pledis for hymself, shuld be removed from Carlisle untill
thcs the kingis majesties servyces be more perfyted." ^
It would appear that such a removal was ellected, and that Johnstone
was for a time con fined in I'ontefract Castle. A paper, without date, but
probably written about this time or the beginning of 1-518, refers to him as a
gentleman whose rental was ' 100 marks sterling or above, for whom the
king's majesty lias paid 100 merks in part payment for ransonr to liis tak-er,"
he being then in Poutefruct.- Johnstone's tower of Lochwood was still in
English hands. Of it Lord Wharton writes to the Duke of Somerset:
"Considering the house of Lough wod the lard Johuslons hov.se, not to bo
tenable but for garresoun to lye in the same amongst the centre men assuered, I
devyscd how the same myght be kept after this gret treasoun,^ and forasmuche
as victuall was had thcrunto from owt of this realme, the centre being wasted
and that liowse also standing xxx'*^ mylles from Carlisle, and nochtwythstandynge
I furnysshed the same -vvyth all uecess.aryes and victuall for two moneths yet I
could have uather Jiorscmen nor footiucn that wold t.ik on hand to lye ther
except vii footmen, whei'of the most part was mync owue servantis. And that
matter so standyngc, and haviiige wilh me James Johnstoun, called Abbot of
SalsyJ, brother to the lard Johnstoun, and others, cheif of that name whom I
have found of the best sorte of Scottis sens they wer woiie, resolved to delyvcr
^ AVharton to Somerset, otli November .ippears to be tlie defection of John, Master
1547; Ann.indale Peerage >rimites of Evi- of Maxwell, afterwarcls fourth LorJ Ilenies,
deuce, \