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was again present; his arms appear in the Galloway Roll of Arms 420 .
Brian Timms notes that this roll is not definitley linked with any
particular event in 1300, which is certainly its date, but that it probably
refers to a skirmish which took place about three weeks after the siege
of Caerlaverock 421 . However Brown 422 associates it with a fight at the
River Cree some three weeks after the siege . A good account of the
fight appears in Barrow‘s excellent book on the period:
the English army reached the [River] Cree and found the
Scots facing them across the tidal estuary. . . . The archers
on both sides exchanged shots across the river, and when the
tide went out the English infantry crossed over and harassed
the enemy at close quarters. In each army the cavalry was
grouped in three brigades. Edward, mistrusting snares and
traps which the Scots were reported to have laid, wished to
keep the English horse on the east side. But owing to a
misunderstanding the earl of Hereford's brigade went over,
whereupon the king and his son Edward of Caernarvon
followed in support. At this the three Scottish cavalry
brigades, commanded respectively by Buchan, Comyn of
Badenoch, and Umfraville, took to flight, many knights
abandoning their horses and fleeing to the moors. 423
It is said that the Galloway roll was composed soon after this and that it
only includes the knights in the King and his 16-year-old son's squadrons
424
. If this is correct John Bluet was one of either Edward I or Edward of
Caernarvon‘s personal knights.
420
http://perso.numericable.fr/briantimms/rolls/gallowayGA3.htm
421
http://www.briantimms.com/rolls/gallowayGA1.htm The Galloway Roll
manuscript is M14bis, pp376-90, College of Arms, London.
Edward I commenced the siege of Caerlaverock Castle on July 10 1300 and
battering rams and trebuchets made short work of the castle and rope tied to the
nearest trees made even shorter work of some of the hapless garrison [Barrow, GS
(2005) Robert the Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland p146]
422
Brown, NM (1996) Gules Crusily and a Fess Dancetty Or Research/Penn State,
Vol. 17, no. 3, online at http://www.rps.psu.edu/sep96/gules.html
423
Barrow, GS (2005) Robert the Bruce and the Community of the Realm of
Scotland p148
424
Brown, NM (1996) Gules Crusily and a Fess Dancetty Or Research/Penn State,
Vol. 17, no. 3, online at http://www.rps.psu.edu/sep96/gules.html