into possession by the King of France upon certain conditions but was detain'd unjustly and treacherously John Archbishop of Dublin and some other great men were sent to the Kinâ— in Almain upon this account After they had receiv'd their answer in Tordran the Archbishop return'd into England and died oâ— S. Leodegarys day The bones of which John Sampford werâ— interr'd in S. Patrick's Church in Dublin on the 10th day beforâ— the Kalends of March. The same year there arose a debate between William Lord Vescy then Justiciary of Ireland and the Lord John Fitz Thomas and the said Lord William Vescy went into England and lefâ— Sir William de la Hay to officiate as Justiciary But when botâ— them were before the King for combat upon an appeel for treason William Vescy fled into France and would not fight Whereupon the King of England gave all the Seigniories that belong'd to him to Sir John Fitz Thomas viz. Kildare Rathemgan and manâ— others The same year Gilbert Clare Earl of Glocester return'd ouâ— of Ireland into England Likewise Richard Earl of Ulster sooâ— after S. Nicholas's day was taken prisoner by Sir John Fitz Thomas and kept within the castle of Ley till the feast of S. Gregory Pope but was then set at liberty by the Council of our Lord thâ— King in a Parliament at Kilkenny John Fitz Thomas gave aâ— his lands for taking him viz. Slygo with other Possessions belonging to him in Conaght Item this year the castle of Kildare was taken but Kildarâ— and the Country round it was wasted by the English and the Irish Calvagh burnt all the Rolls and Tallies of the said Earl This yeaâ— and the two next following there was much dearth and Pestilencâ— throughout Ireland Item William Lord Dooddyngzele was made Justiciary of Irelanâ— MCCXCV Edward King of England built the Castle de Beâ— Marisco i.e. Beaumaris in Venedocia which is call'd the motheâ— of Cambria but commonly Anglesey and enter'd it immediatelâ— after Easter subduing the Venedotes i.e. the able men of Anglesey and making them subject to him Soon after this viz. about thâ— Feast of S. Margaret Madock at that time Prince elect of Waleâ— submitted himself to the King's mercy and was brought to Londoâ— by John de Haverings where he was clapt in the Tower to waâ— the King's grace and favour This year died William Dooddingzeâ— Justiciary of Ireland the day after S. Mary of Egypt Sir Thomas Fitz-Maurice succeeded him Also about the same time thâ— Irish in Leinster destroy'd that Province burning the new Castâ—â— with other Villages Item Thomas de Torbevile a seducer oâ— the King and betrayer of his Country was drawn through the middle of London lying out at length and guarded with four Toâ—mentors in Vizards who revil'd him as we went along At lasâ— he was gibbeted and deny'd the privilege of Burial having nonâ— to attend his Funeral but Kites and Crows This Thomas waâ— one of them who in the Siege of the Castle of Rions was takeâ— and carry'd to Paris Whereupon he promis'd the Nobility oâ— France that he would deliver to them the King of England anâ— leaving his two Sons as Pledges came over and told the King oâ— England and his Council how narrowly he escap'd out of Prisoâ— When he had inform'd himself of the designs of the King anâ— state of the Kingdom he sent the whole in writing to the Provoâ— of Paris Of which being convicted he was executed iâ— the manner aforesaid About the same time the Scoâ— having broken the Peace which they had covenanted with oâ—â— Lord King of England made a new league with the King oâ— France and conspiring together rose up in Arms against their owâ— sovereign Lord and King John Baillol and shut him up in the midland parts of Scotland in a Castle encompass'd with Mountain This was done in pure spight and contempt to the King of England because he had set the said John over them without theâ—â— will and consent The King of England brought another Army 〈◊〉 Scotland the Lent following to chastise the Scots for their presumption and arrogance against their own Father and King Sâ— John Wogan was made Justiciary of Ireland and the Lord Thomas Fitz-Maurice give place to him This Wogan made a Trucâ— for two years between the Earl of Ulster and John Fitz-Thomas and the Geraldines About Christmas-day this year Gilbert Clarâ— Earl of Glocester departed this life Item the King of Englanâ— sent his Brother Edmund with an Army into Gascoign MCCXCVI The Lord Edward King of England on the thirâ— day before the Kalends of April viz. upon Friday that fell oâ—â— then to be Easter-week took Berwick with the slaughter of seveâ— thousand Scots and not of above one of the English Knights viâ— Sir John of Cornwall and seven Footmen more Shortly after abouâ— the 4th of May he enter'd the Castle of Dunbar and took abouâ— forty of the Enemy Prisoners who submitted themselves to thâ— King's mercy having before defeated the whole Army of the Scots that is to say slain seven hundred Horse with the loss of Footmeâ— only on the English side Item upon S. John's-day before Port-latin about 15000 Welchmeâ— were sent to invade Scotland by the King's Order At the same timâ— the Nobility of Ireland viz. John Wogan Justiciary Richard Bourâ— Earl of Ulster Theobald Butler and John Fitz-Thomas witâ— others came to assist in this Expedition to Scotland The Kinâ— of England also entertain'd them with others of the English Nobility upon the third day before the Ides of May viz. Whitsuâ—day with a great Feast in the castle of Rokesburgh Item on thâ— next Wednesday before S. Barnabas he enter'd the Town of Edinburgh and won the castle before the Feast of S. John Baptist shortly after in the same Summer all the castles in Scotland were surrender'd up to him Item John Balliol King of Scotland came tho' much against his will to the King of England upon the Sunday next after the Translation of S. Thomas the Archbishop attended with many Earls Bishops and Knights and they surrender'd all to the King but their lives and limbs and their Lord John Balliol gave up all his Right and Title in Scotland to the King of England who sent him under a safe guard towards London Item Edmund Brother to the King of England died this year in Gascoign MCCXCVII Our Lord Edward King of England sail'd into Flanders with an Army against the King of France where after much expence and altercation a form of Peace was concluded between them upon condition they should stand to the award and judgment of the Pope From the one side and the other certain Messengers were sent to the Court of Rome but while the King was in Flanders William Walleis according to a general Resolution of the Scots came with a great Army to Strivelin-bridge to engage John Earl of Warren in which Battel many were slain on both sides and many drown'd but however the English were
of this place a man of an exemplary life and conversation At his death he left all his books both Manuscripts and others to the use of the Diocess of Dumblane and mortify'd a sum for erecting a Library as a Salary for a Library-keeper was mortify'd by the same Bishop's sister's son It gives the title of Vicount of Dumblane to his Grace the Duke of Leeds The Lord William Drummond Vicount of Strath-allan hath here a very fine Dwelling and considerable revenues in the Country all round e The Shire of Argile Argile and Perth with the Countries adjacent seem to have been formerly inhabited by the Horesti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Mountaineers mentioned by Tacitus viz. the true ancient Scots who came from Ireland and possessed themselves of the West-Isles and of these Countries For distinction's sake they were called the Northern Picts the same with Ammianus Marcellinus's Dicalidones which Buchanan agreeably to the meaning of Horesti and the Highlanders reads Duncaledonii By the the Panegyrist Eumenius they are named Hiberni soli Britanni and by the Writers of the middle age their Country is called Hibernia as is proved in the Description of Thule writ by Sir Robert Sibbalds These two Counties with the Western Isles made up the Kingdom of the Scots whilst the rest of Scotland was under the Romans and Picts Afterwards the whole Country came under one King namely Kenneth the second who was called Rex Scotorum The Shire of ARGILE Argile had formerly two Sherifdoms Argile and Tarbert but now they are united into one which comprehends Kantyre Knapdale Askeodnish Cowell in which is Denoun the Bishop of Argile's seat Lorne and many of the west Isles To the east it is joyned to Perthshire to the north-east it touches upon Lochaber to the north-west it hath several Isles and to the south the Irish-sea and the Firth of Clyde In length 't is about six score miles and in breadth some forty miles The sea in many places runs up a great way into the land in long bays which they call Loughs The Tract properly called Argile lyes between Lock-fyne wherein is a great Herring-fishing and Loch-Aw a fresh water Loch twenty four miles long and one broad out of which the River of Aw runs for some six or seven miles and then enters Loch-Ediff The whole shire is mountainous and the Inhabitants who speak the Irish live mostly by their hunting and fishing It 's chief town is Innererra a Burgh-Royal near which is the Castle the chief residence of the Earl of Argile adorned with fine gardens standing upon the water of Eira where it falls into Lochfyne f The Southermost part of Argileshire is KINTYRE Kintyre above thirty miles long and eight or nine broad It has in it a burgh of Barony situate upon the lough of Kilkerran called Campbell-Town Campbeâ—â— Town where is a safe harbour for Ships having an Island in the mouth of the bay g The shire of PERTH so called from Perth Perth a burgh Royal and the head burgh of the County to the north and north-west hath Badenoch and Lochabyre to the north-east it is bounded with Marr to the west with Argileshire to the south-west with Dumbartonshire to the south with Clackmannanshire part of Sterlingshire and the river and firth of Forth to the South-east it hath Kinrosshire and Fife and to the east Angus The length of it from east to west is above fifty two miles the breadth about forty eight The high grounds are good pasture and the low very fruitful in corn At the Meagile there is an ancient Monument of stone cut with several figures said to be the burial place of Queen Vanara who had her dwelling place three miles benorth upon a hill called Barray where are the ruines of a great building Dunkell * is surrounded with pleasant woods at the foot of the Grampian hills on the north side of Tay. The ruins of the Cathedral Church are still to be seen 'T is the chief Market Town of the High-lands and is of late very much adorned with stately buildings erected by the Marquiss of Athol h ANGUS Aâ—gus the head town whereof is Forfar whence it 's likewise called the shire of Forfar is bounded upon the South with the Ocean and the firth of Tay upon the West and North-west 't is divided from Perthshire by a line twenty seven miles long towards the North the ridge of Binchinnin-mountains part it from the Brae of Marr and to the East it is separated from the Mernes by the water of Tarf and a line drawn from it to the water of North-Eske which to its mouth continues to divide this shire from the Mernes 'T is in length about twenty eight miles and in breadth about twenty They have several Quarries of free-stone and much slate with both which they drive a good trade Near the Castle of Innermarkie there are Lead-mines and they find great plenty of Iron-ore near the wood of Dalboge The higher ground called the Brae abounds with Hart Hind Roe-buck Doe and Fowl and their Salmond-trade turns to a good account Dundee Dundee * Theatrum Sâ—tiae so called from Dun a hill and the river Tay on the north side whereof it is situated stands in a pleasant plain and is adorned with excellent buildings of all sorts It hath two Churches a high steeple a harbour for ships of burthen and a considerable trade with strangers The Inhabitants are generally rich and those who fall into decay have a large Hospital provided for them As this town formerly gave the title of Earl and dignity of Constable to the chief of the Scrimgers so hath it of late afforded the title of Vicount to the Lord Dundee who was killed at the Battle of Gillikrankie â—â—hin Brechin is a market-town considerable for Salmon Horses Oxen and Sheep It has a stately bridge over the river Esk and shows the ruins of the Bishop's Palace and of the Canons houses 'T is likewise famous for a memorable slaughter of the Danes not far from it In this County it was that the General of the Danes was killed by the valiant Keith who thereupon was advanced to great honours by King Malcolm the second who was present in person at the battle Upon the General 's Grave there was a high stone erected which carries the name of Camus's Cross And about ten miles distant from this at Aberlemno is another Cross erected upon some of the Danes killed there Both these have some antique pictures and letters upon them Aberbrothock a Royal burgh hath a harbour for ships and an Abbey where King William the Founder lyeth with a stately Monument upon him This Country has several seats of Nobility and Gentry 〈◊〉 i The shire of MEARNS is so called from Mearn a valiant Gentleman to whom it was given by Kenneth the second called also the shire of Kincarden from the ancient town of Kincarden To the east it is
family of Man soon did by force of arms For having raised a body of English he drove the Scots out of the Isle with these raw soldiers But having plunged himself into debt by the great expence of this war and become insolvent he was was forced to mortgage the Island to Anthony Bec Bishop of Durham and Patriarch of Jerusalem and make over all the profits thereof to him for seven years and quickly after the King gave the Island to the said Anthony for term of life Afterwards King Edw. 2. gave it to his great favourite Peter de Gaveston having made him Earl of Cornwall at the same time He being cut off the King gave it to Henry Beaumont with all the demesn and royal jurisdiction thereunto belonging Soon after this the Scots recovered it again under the conduct of Robert Brus and from that time Thomas Randolph a warlike Scot as also a long time after Alexander Duke of Albany stiled themselves Lords of Man The Arms of the Kings of Man and bore the same Arms that the later Kings of the Island did namely three arm'd legs of a man link'd together and bending in the hams just like the three legs naked which were formerly stamp'd in the coins of Sicily to signifie the three Promontories The old Coat of Arms of Sâ—cily But yet the ancient Arms of the Kings of Man was a * Vâ—lo complicatâ— Ship with the sail hoised with this inscription Rex Manniae Insularum The King of Man and of the Islands as I have seen in the sails they used Afterwards about the year 1340 William Montacute the younger Earl of Salisbury rescued it by force of arms from the Scots and in the year of our Lord 1393 sold Man and the Crown thereof to William Scrope for a great sum of money as Walsingham tells us Scrope being beheaded afterwards and his goods confiscated for treason it fell into Henry the 4th's hands who bestowed it upon Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland then triumphing over William Scrope having himself though only a private person taken and beheaded him for aspiring to the Crown upon this condition That he and his posterity at the Coronation of the Kings of Kings of England should carry the Sword before him which the said Henry wore by his side at his Restoration or return from Exile commonly called Lancaster sword But take the King 's own words as they stand in the Record We of our special grace An. 1. H. 9. Rot. 2. bundle 2. have gâ—ven and granted to Henry Earl of Northumberland the Isle Castle Pile and Lordship of Man with all such Islands and seigniories thereunto belonging as were Sir William Le Scoâ—p 's Kt. now deceased whom in his life we conquered and do declare to be conquered and which by reason of this our conquest fell to us Which very Conquest and Decree as touching the person of the said William and all the lands tâ—nements goods and chattels as well within as without the Kingdom belonging to him are now at the petition of the Communs of our Kingdom and by the consent of the Lords Temporal now assembled in Parliament ratified and confirmed to have and to hold to the said Earl and his heirs c. by service of carrying at every coronation-day of us and our heirs at the lift shoulder of us and our heirs either by himself in person or â—y some sufficient and honourable deputy that sword naked which we wore when we arrived at Hâ—lderness called Luncaster-sword c. However this Henry Percy was banished four years after Annals of Thom. Otterborn an 7. H. 4. and though it was not long before his attainder was took of yet he was deprived of Man which was given first to William Stanley and after that to John Stanley together with the advowson of the Bishoprick c. whose posterity have been honoured with the title of Earls of Derby and commonly called Kings of Man Additions to the ISLE of MAN The Division of the Land THE extent and situation of this Island of Man and the different names under which it is mentioned by the Ancients are faithfully related by Mr. Camden which I shall not here repeat The Island is divided into seventeen parts which are distinguished not by the name of Shires or Counties but of Kirks and are called The seventeen Parish Churches every Church or Parish bearing the additional name of the Saint to whom the Parish-Church or Chapel in old time was dedicated Their names are Kirk Christ of Rushin Kirk Harbery Kirk Melue Kirk Santon Kirk Bradon Kirk Marcom Kirk Concan Kirk Connon Kirk Maughald Kirk Christ of Ayre Kirke Bride Kirk Andrew Jorby or St. Patrick of Jorby Ballough Kirk Michael Kirk Jerman Kirk Patrick of Peel These seventeen Kirks or Parishâ—s are divided into six parts which in the Manks language are called Sheedings every Sheeding comprehending three Kirks or Parishes except one which has only two There are three small Islands which belong to the Isle of Man the biggest of which is called the Calf of Man Calf of Man and lies on the south side thereof pointing westward It is well stored with a fort of sea fowl called Puffins which are of a very unctuous Constitution They breed in the Coney-holes the Coneys leaving their Burrows for that time and are never seen with their young but either very early in the morning or late in the evening nourishing as is conceived their young with oyl which drawn from their own constitution is dropped into their mouths For being open there is found in their crops no other sustenance but a single sorrel leaf which the old give their young for digestion's sake as is conjectured The flesh of these birds is nothing pleasant being of a rank fish-like taste but pickled or salted they may be ranked with Anchâ—vies Caviare or the like They are profitable in their feathers and oyl of which the Inhabitants make great use about theiâ— wooll They have likewise another sort of sowl in this â—ites Island which the Inhabitants call Barnacles commonly said to be the same with the Soland-geese of Scotland but really the Soland-geese in that Kingdom have no affinity to Barnacles being quite of another kind The other little Isle is called St. Michaels Island and lies in the south-east part of Man The third is Peel Island situated on the west side of Man which tho' it be the least yet is it of greatest consequence because of a castle therein The danger of the â—oast for Ships The Island is not only environed with huge rocks round about but likewise at the mouth of every Haven there are a great many rocky stones pointed like a pyramide above water besides a great many rugged stones that lie undiscovered under water So that it is dangerous to enter any of the Havens of this Island without the assistance and conduct of some of the Native Mariners The Haven of Douglass is reckoned the best
were put to flight The third was at Sketheris hard by Arstol the day after S. Paul's conversion the English fled and were routed by the Scots Whereupon Edward Brus after the feast of Philip and James got himself crown'd King of Ireland Having taken Green Castle they posted themselves in it but the citizens of Dublin soon remov'd them and recover'd it for the King and finding Sir Robert Coultagh the governour of the Castle there they brought him to Dublin where he was imprison'd and being kept to hard diet died Item Upon S. Peter and Paul's day the Scots invested Dondalk took it plunder'd it and then burnt it after they had kill'd all such as had oppos'd them A great part of Urgale was likewise burnt by them as also the Church of the blessed Virgin Mary in Atterith full of men women and children with the assistance of the Irish This same year the Lord Edmund Botiller Justiciary of Ireland about the feast of S. Mary Magdalen drew considerable forces out of Munster Leinster and other parts to joyn the Earl of Ulster at Dondalk who had drawn a mighty great army out of Connaght and those parts and was marching thither There they concerted what measures they should take to destroy the Scots What their resolutions were is not known but the Scots fled and if they had not they had as 't is hop'd been taken Prisoners After this the Earl of Ulster and the said Justiciary with the rest of the Nobility resolv'd as soon as they had cut off the Scots to bring the Lord Edmund Brus dead or alive to Dublin Accordingly the Earl pursued them as far as Branne and then retir'd towards Coyners Brus perceiving this pass'd the River privately follow'd him and put him to flight with some others of the Earl's side having wounded George Roch and slain Sir John Stanton Roger Holiwood and others Many were likewise kill'd on Brus's side and on the 10th of September the Lord William Burk was taken Prisoner and the Earl was defeated near Coyners whereupon an Insurrection of the Irish in Conaught and Meth follow'd against the King and the Earl of Ulster who burnt the Castles of Atholon Raudon and others The Baron of Donull was very eminent for his great Valour but he suffer'd very much in his Goods and the Scots drove them stoutly as far as Cragfergus where those of the Earl's party fled and they some of them enter'd the Castle and defended it with great valour Afterwards certain Seamen came suddenly from the Port-towns and Havens of England surpris'd the Scots and kill'd forty of them carrying their Tents c. off with them The day after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross the Earl of Morreff went over with four Pirate-ships laden with Irish Commodities into Scotland accompanied with the Lord William Brus intending there to pick up a supply for his Army One of the Ships was cast away All this while the aforesaid Brus was carrying on the Siege of Cragfergus-castle At the same time Cathil Roge demolish'd three Castles of the Earl of Ulster's in Connaught where he likewise burnt and plunder'd many Towns Now also the English Mariners above-mentioned went to the said Castle and the Lords there skirmish'd with one another and kill'd many of the Scots Richard Lande O-Ferivil was slain also about this time by an Irish man Item Afterwards upon S. Nicholas day Brus left Cragfergus and was join'd by the Earl of Morreff with 500 Men so they march'd together towards Dundalk Many flock'd into them and gave them their assistance From these they pass'd on to Nobee where they left many of their Men about the feast of S. Andrew Brus himself burnt Kenley's in Meth and Grenard Abby which he rifled and spoil'd He also burnt Finnagh and Newcastle and all that Country and after they had kept their Christmas at Loghsudy they burnt it likewise At last they march'd forward by Totmoy to Rathymegan and Kildare and the Country about Tristeldermot Athy and Reban in which Expedition they lost some Soldiers After this Brus advanc'd to Skethy near Arscoll in Leinster where he was engag'd by the Lord Edmund Botiller Justiciary of Ireland Sir John Fitz-Thomas Thomas Arnald Power and other Noblemen of Leinster and Munster so strong that any single Lord of them might have been an overmatch for Brus and his whole Party But a difference arising they left the Field in great disorder and confusion to him according to the truth of that Every Kingdom divided against it self shall become desolate Haymund le Grace a noble ' Squire and particularly loyal to his King and Country and Sir William Prendregest were both slain The Scots lost Sir Fergus Andrissan Sir Walter Morrey and many others who were buried at Athy in the Convent of the Friers Predicants Afterwards Brus in his return towards Meth burnt Loy-castle and so the Scots march'd from Kenlis into Meth where the Lord Mortimer took the field against them with a numerous Army amounting to near 15000 but hardly unanimous and true to one another as it was believ'd For tho' this Body was all under the said Mortimer yet they went off about three a Clock and deserted him particularly the Lacies so that the Lord Mortimer was oblig'd to retreat to Dublin with a small Party and the Lord Walter Cusake to the Castle of Trym leaving the Country and the Town of Kenlis to the mercy of the Scots Item At the same time all the South-part of the Country was burnt by the Irish of those parts viz. Arclo Newcastle Bree and all the adjacent Villages under the conduct of the Otothiles and the O Brynnes The Omorghes also burnt and wasted part of Leys in Leinster but most of them were cut off by the Lord Edmund Botiller Chief Justice of Ireland and about eight hundred of their Heads carried to Dublin-castle Item This year about the feast of the purification of the blessed Virgin some of the Irish Nobility and the Lord Fitz-Thomas Richard Lord Clare John Lord le Pover and Arnold Lord Pover came to the Lord John de Hotham who was appointed by the King for that end to establish a Peace for their after-quiet and safety so they took their Oaths to stand by the King of England with their lives and fortunes to do their best to preserve the peace and to kill the Scots For performance whereof they gave Pledges before God and so return'd All the rest of the Irish Nobility that refus'd to follow the same course were to be look'd upon as Enemies to the King Item The Lord John Bysset departed this life and the Church of the new Village of Leys with the Belfrey was burnt by the Scots The Castle of Northburg in Ulster was also taken by them Item Fidelmicus O Conghyr King of Connaught kill'd Rorick the son of Cathol O Conghyr Item This year died the Lord William Maundevil and the Bishop of Coner fled to the Castle of Cragfergus and the Bishoprick was laid under