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Zbc Ibousc of Dunrob.
liy Thk Euriuk.
IjRADITION in the West of Scotlund derives the
house of Duiirod from that Liudsuy who was
one of the associates of Bruce in the slaughter
of John, the Red Cumin.
Bruce and Cumin met in conference in the Church
of the Minorites at Dumfries. The conference became
a quarrel, in the course of which Bruce charged Cumin
with having betrayed him to King Edward, and in the
heat of passion, struck him with his dagger. Hurrying
out of the Church, ' he met James Lindsay and Roger
Kirkpatrick, his tender freindis, and said to thaim, ' I
trow the Cumin be slane.' To quhome they answerit,
'Hes thow attemptit sa gret ane mater, and left it
uncertaine ? ' Incontinent thay went to the Cumin,
and inquirit him gif he had ony deidis woundis ; or
gif he trowit to recovir, gif he had ony gud surrigiane.
And becaus he said he micht recovir, they straik him
iii. or iv. othir straikis, mair cruelly ; and sone eftir he
gaif the gaist, the yeir of God, mcccv. yeris."
This James Lindsay is identified on circumstantial
evidence with Sir James of Thurston and Craigie, son
and heir of that Sir Walter who figures in Blind
Harry's metrical history of Wallace.
* Bellenden: Bk. XIV.. Ch. VII.
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