Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

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IXTL'ODT'CTRiX.
arms, Jumos, Lord of Donglas, ];iiiuli!, was niio of tlie wlioli' laiul c/f Polbutliy
[Poliiioodip.], williiii Uio vnle of ^iDfiiit. Tlie land was to be held by the
grantee niid his litii'.s of the hing and his heirs for rendering twelve broad
nrrows yearly. The cliartor bears date at Abirbrothoe, l^th December 1318.
T!ie original cliarter is still preserved in the Pouglas charter-chest, and
hy tlie kind permission of the I'arl of Homo, iSarou Dunglas of Douglas, a
lithograph of it is here introduced. Tl;c cliarter itself is al.-o printed.^
rolbnthy forms part of the extensive Annaudale e.'^tates, and contains
the highe-t mountain range in the south of Scotland.
liAMJOLril J'JIOVIDEP TO AnXANIi.-V1,1: I;V lll.s r.\'CLK Kl.XG ItOBElJT E];CC'K.
Sir Thomas Eaiuloliih \va3 the nephew of King Pobert Bruce, being the
only son of Lady Isabel Ln:ec, eldest daughter of Lobert Lriice, l-'arl of
Cariick, and sister of the king. Jiandoljih inherited tlic !r:artial S]v'rit of
the liruces. He rendered great assistance to iSrucc at liannockburn, and the
king rewarded him with a grant of the Lruce loidsliip of Aunandale, as well
as of the lordship of Man and the great earldom of ]Moray. liajidolph there-
after bore the dignities of Earl of Tdoray and Lord of Annandale and ]\Ian.
In all the charters granted by him he places Annandale before ]\Ian.
liis only daughter, Lady Agnes, married Palrick, nir.th Earl of Dunbar and
March. She is known as "Black Agnes of Dunbar," by reason, as Pilscottie
says, slie was ' bUck-skiniied." This woman, he adds, was of greater spirit
than became a woman to be. She is also known as the heroine v.dio success-
fully defended the ea.stle of Dunbar whan it was besieged for many luonth.s
by the English in 1337. An arro\s' from one of the Scottish archers killed
an English officer who was beside the Earl of Salisbury, one of the be.?ieger.-:,
and killed him on tlie spot. Salisbury excLiimed, "There comes one of my
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lady's tire pins ; Agnes'.s love shafts go straight to the heart."
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