Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

RENEWAT. OY FEUDS; WITH MAXWEELS, 15TP. Ix.wi
full jiisticiiuy power.?.' Tlio u.^ii;;! jivoelaiiuitiou was issm.'d at llie iiiarlset
cross of Pimifries and el.-ewlieiv, cliai-ing tlic iiiliabiiauts of the di.stvict to
obej- tlie new wavden and assist him in every way, a.t their peril. ^ Pollowiii;.;
upon tin's, a week or two later, we have a lioiul in the warden's favour by
James Graham of Gillisbe for himself, his men, tenmts and servants, binding
tliem all in manrent service in the usual ternis.^ In April of the folkwini;
year, 1550, there was a simihu- but more si^'iiificant document signed
mutually by the waiden, on one side, and Edwa'd Jfaxwell of TinwaM
and James Ma.-cwell of roiiraelc, for their friends, on the other. 'J'he
j^Iaxv.ells bound theniselves to tal.'e " trevr, plane and uprycht pairt " witli
the warden against their own nominal cliief, John, Lord rJa.\v,\dl, ];oger
Griersou of Lag, and their party and friends, while Jtilinstone on the other
hand assured them of support and assistance against the same persons.''
Tills bond indicates virtually a new outbreak of the fjud between John-
stone and ]\ra.\v.c-ll. The latter, vho had been in ward, was liberated in
December 1579 on his promise to behave himself as a dutiful subj.ect, and to
assist the warden in preserving the jieace. But not long afterwards, at a fray
in Dumfries, two of his relatives assaulted Johnstone of Carusallocl: "to the
effusion of his bluid in gret qnantitie," and as one of the Maxwells was
also hurt, Jolni Johnstone and Lord Ma.xwell Mere both charged by the
privy coinicil to subscribe a mutual assurance to be entered into by botli
parties and their friends.^ This aj.'parently was dune, but only a few weeks
later Johnstone complained to the council that Jlaw^xdl had brolceu the
assurance and had convened the king's lieges "in weiilyke maner." The
case was continued for proof, but no record of the matter is preserved, and on
2nd September LjiSO they urutually signed another assurance to last for si.x
' Commission, 27tli August 1570, in bei 1570, in Aimnnd.ile Cliaitor-clicst.
Annandale C'lisrttr-cli'^ft. * OrigiiKil, d.ited Lochinaben, StJi Ajuil
' Kegi.ster of the Privy Council, vol. iii. loSO, iu ADi.r.tnIale Charter-chest.
p. 207. 5 Register uf the Privy Council, vol. iii.
' Bond, datc.l at Locbwood, 17th Srj>ttni- 1'. ?C"i; 9ih February Iy79-Sf>.
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