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all these oppressive exactions is imposed on INGELBDEA UMPF BAVILLEa, nd a proportinnately severe tine is
required from hie vassals.-(Lord Hades’s Annals, vol. i p. 288.) This, therefore, indicates one of the chief
leaders of the Scota against their English invaders. His fine was to extend over a perid of ten yeara, long
before which Edwad was in his grave, and nearly every place of strength in Scotland had been wreated from
his imbecile son, There seems little reason to doubt that Ingelram de Umtravile would early avail himself of
an opportunity to renounce a foreign ydce burdened by such exactions, and to bear his part in expelling the
invaders from the kingdom. The following, however, is the very different account of Nisbet, in hie ‘‘ Historical
and Critical remarks on the Ragman Roll” (p. 11), if it refer to the eame person :-
“Ingelramus de Umphravile was a branch of the Umfraville family that were Englishmen, but posRessed
of 8 great estate in Angus, and elsewhere, which they lost, because they would not renounce their allegiance
to England, and turn honest Scotsmen. In the rolls of King Robert I., there are charters of lands granted by
that Prince, upon the narratix-e that the lands had formerly belonged, and forfeited to the Crown, by the
attainder of Ingelramus de Umphramk.”
At an early date the Scottish Umfradles occupied a high rank. In 1243, Gilbert de Umfraville, Lord of
Pmdhow and Herbottil, in Northumberland, became Earl of Angus, by right of his marriage with Matilda,
Countess in her own right. The name of Cilleberto de Umframuill appears aa a witnew to a confirmation
of one of the charters of Holyrood Abbey, granted by William the Lyon (Liber Cartarurn Sancte Crucis, p.
24) ; and in a Rubsequent charter in the same reign he appears as bestowing a carukate of land in Kinard on the
w e Abbey (Ibid, p. 34). These notes can afford at best only grounds for surmise as to the knight whose
memorial cross was not altogether demolished till the year 1810. The base of it, which remained on ita ancient
site till that recent date, was a mass of whinstone, measuring fully five feet square, by about three feet high
above ground. There was a square hole in the centre of it, wherein the shaft of the cross- had been inserted.
We are informed that it was broken up and used for paving the road.
The poet Claudero, of whom some account is given in a succeeding note, haa dedicated an elegy to the
“Tun efield Nine,’’ On the Pollution of St Lemrd’s Hill, a conseerated and ancient burial-place, near EdinburgLn
The following stanzas will be sufficient to account for the complete eradication of every vestige of its hospital
and graves from the ancient site :- .
“ The High Priest there, with art and care,
Hath purg’d with gardner‘a skill,
And trench‘d out bones of Adam’s sons,
Repoa’d in Leonard’s Hill !
“ Graves of the dead, thrown up with spade,
Where long they slept full s t i
And turnips grow, from human POW,
Upon St Leonard’a Hill 1 ”
XIV. GREYFRIARS’ MONASTERY.
THE residence of Henry VI. of England, as well as his heroic Queen and their son, at the Greyfriars
Monastery in the Grassmarket, after the total overthrow of that unfortunate monarch’s adherents at the Battle
of Towton, i a referred to in the description of the Grassmarket (pages 17 and 342). Thevisit of Henry
to the Scottish capital has, however, been altogether denied by aome writers. The following note by Sir W,
Scott, on the fifth canto of Marmion, ought to place this at least beyond doubt :-
