Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

CHAKTX:!; OJ' AXiN\-\XJiALK TO KOF-LMT VMICE., 1121. Xl
villi Animulale, llicy are re-pvinted in an Aiipc-ndix of Clinrters to tiiis
voluiiif, and fac,>iniik-s of Uie two cliavlcis of Kiiig David are lieve introduced.
During the I'requcrit residence in England of King David iLe First l.iefore
liis succession as King of Scotland, iio had formed an intimate personal
friendship with Piobert the Eruce, tlie accpiirer of Aunandale. Da\id pro-
liahly suiiposed that the experience of E)'uce in governing his own J'aiglish
lordships would conduce to the good rule and civili.=;ation of the extensive
Border lordshij') of Annandale, which formed the middle or third division of
the coiinly of Dumrvics. The other two divisions of that cornity are Nithsdale
on the west, and Eslahde C'li the east. Eut whatever were the real ruotives,
whether of private friendsliip or })ubliG policy, of King David in nraking such
a munificent grant, I'ruce soon entered into possession of the districi of
Annandale, and governed it successfully from 112-t till the year 1138, when
the Ea'lle of tlio Standard, which was fought on 22d August that year on
Cutton iloor, near Northallerton, changed the relations between King David
and his fivvourite grantee of Annandale. The latter almost passionately
endeavoured to dissuade the king against his ill-advised war with England.
Eruce's address to In's sovereign on that occasion was more in the style and
language of an independent sovereign than a subject of Scotland as lord of
Annandale. But his advice and his entreaties were disregarded, and the war
proved disastrous to the Scots. Ijrncc did not long survive that battle,
];aviug died in May llil, after governing Annandale fur seventeen years.
His second son, also named Kobcrt, succeeded to Annandale, and v/as the
second l!obert Bruce of Aunandale from 1141 to 1190. He made cliarter-
grants of the lauds and fishing; in Annandale to his friends and foUou-ers, as
appears from the charters still preserved.
King William the Eiou confirmed to this second Bobert Bruce of
Annandale all the land which his father and hiinselt' held in tlic dale of
Aiiuai; by t'le sauje marolus by which his fatlier licld it, and he after his
father, to himself and his heirs in fee and heritage;, as freely as ever liis