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Identifier: baronialecclesia00bill (find matches)
Title: The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874 Wiston-Glyn, A. W
Subjects: Architecture Church architecture
Publisher: Edinburg T.N. Foulis
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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surrender, showed a flag of truce ; but he thatdisplayed it was shot with an arrow by some archer, through the hand into theface. The smallness of the garrison seems to have astonished even the besiegers,and is a remarkable evidence of the preponderating value in those days of even suchrude fortifications, as the remains of ancient castellated architecture exhibit. Andthis is the number of those who came out of it ; of persons of different sorts andranks, sixty men, who were beheld with much astonishment, but they were all keptand guarded till the king commanded that life and limb should be given them, andordered to each of them a new garment. ^ Such is the chivalrous spirit in whichthe Poet chronicler describes the conclusion ; but the chronicle of Lanercost, incloser conformity with the character of the victor, states that many of the captiveswere hanged. * In the original, Ckapeaus—meaning, of course, hats made of iron. t Translation by Sir H. Nicolas, 67. X Ibid. 77. % Ibid. 87.
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THE coLKi \\K\) <)!• cai;ki.a\ i;kiiC CASri.lC ANTIQUITIES OP SCOTLAND 63 The castle remained for some years in possession of the conquerors. It must,however, have speedily again fallen into the hands of the Scots ; for in the year1312 it appears to have been in the custody of Sir Eustace Maxwell, who, as azealous supporter of Bruce, subsequently defended his paternal possession againstthe English in a second siege. He successfully resisted them, but deemed it wiseto destroy or dismantle the fortress ; and there existed a charter of Robert theBruce to Eustace Maxwell of ane annuall, for demolishing the castle ofCarlaverock. * The destruction appears to have affected no part that could notbe easily repaired, for amid the fluctuations of that shifting time, we find Herbert,the son of Eustace, holding the castle as liege man of Edward III., in 1347.Major briefly tells us that it was levelled to the ground by Rojer Kirkpatrick in1355. The older part of the present edifice is supposed

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