Count?s troops, chiefly cavalry, now gave way, but
still fighting with the dogged valour of Walloons.
Part of them that fled by Sk Mary?s Wynd were
nearly cut to pieces by Sir David de Annan, who
led his men battle-axe in hand. The few that
escaped him joined others who had reached the
Castle. There
they slaughtered
their horses, made
a rampart of the
bodies,andfought
behind it with an
energy born of
despair, till hunger
and thirst on
the following day
compelled them
to capitulate, and
the Earl of Moray
suffered them
to depart on giving
oath never
again to beararms
against David 11.
of Scotland.
In 1867 agreat
q u a n t i t y of
bones-the relics
of this conflictwere
discovered
about five feet
below the surface,
on the northern
verge of the
Eurghmuir, where
now Glengyl e
Terrace is built,
and were decently
re-interred by the
authorities.
In 1336 Edward
III., still prosecuting
the cause
of the minion
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cunning enemy to whom the secret is unknown.
The entrance is still seen in the side of the deep
draw-well, which served alike to cloak their purpose
and to secure for the concealed a ready
supply of pure water. From this point Ramsay
often extended his ravages into Northumberland.
?? WALLACE?S CRADLE,? EDINBURGH CASTLE.
Baliol against King David, re-fortified the ruin ; and
on the 15th June Sir John de Kingeston was again
appointed its governor ; but he had a hard time of
it ; the whole adjacent country was filled by adventurous
bands of armed Scots. The most resolute
and active of these was the band of Sir Alexander
Ramsay of Dalhousie, whose place of retreat was
in the caves beneath the romantic house of Hawthornden,
then the abode of a traitor named
Abernethy, and which are so ingeniously constructed
as to elude the vigilance of the most
4
Covered with
glory and honour,
the noble King
Robert, the skilful
Randolph, and
the chivalrous Sir
James Douglas,
had all gone
down to the silent
tomb ; but other
heroes succeeded
them, and valiant
deeds were done.
The Scots thought
of nothing but
battle; the plough
was allowed to
rust, and the earth
to take care of
itself. By 1337
the Eoglish were
again almost entirely
driven out
of Scotland, and
the Castle of
Edinburgh was
recaptured from
them through an
ingenious strai%
gem, planned by
William Bullock,
a priest, who had
been captain of
Cupar Castle for
Baliol, ?and was
a man very brave
and faithful to the
Scots, and of
great use to them,? according to Buchanan.
Under his directions, Walter Curry, of Dundee,
received into his ship two hundred select Scottish
soldiers, led by William Douglas, Sir Simon Fraser,
Sir John Sandilands, and Bullock also. Anchoring
in Leith Roads, the latter presented himself to the
governor as master of an English ship just arrived
with wines and provisions, which he offered to sell
for the use of the garrison. The bait took all the
more Keadily that the supposed captain had closely
shaven himself in the Anglo-Norman fashion. On
