I need scarcely say, that the earl had given Wallace this contemptuous designation, as being a native of the district of Kyle in Ayrshire.
“_In lyff or dede, in faith, him sall we haiff,_ “_Or ger him grant quhom he haldis for his lord;_ “_Or ellis war_ schaym _in story to racord._”--V. 44.
In MS. _schapin_; but undoubtedly from inadvertency. It had perhaps been written _schaym_.
_In till_ Gorkhelm _erll Patrik leiffit at rest._ _For mar power Wallace past in the west._--V. 129.
Edit. 1594,--_Cokholme_; followed by 1620, and other editions. But Macpherson says that Gorkhelm, here mentioned, is “in Etrik forest.” Geogr. Illustr.
_Was nayne sa strang, that gat off him a strak,_ _Eftir agayne maid neuir a Scot to_ waik.--V. 285.
In Edit. 1594, _wraik_, i. e. wreck. Perhaps this is the true reading. As in MS., it may signify, “to be deficient,” or “wanting,” as used for _vaik_. Here we have the double negative, common in Scottish.
_This ryall ost, but restyng, furth thai rid,_ _Till_ Browis feild, _&c._--V. 493.
In Edit. 1594, _Brokis feild_; Edit. 1648, _Browes_. D. Macpherson refers to _Browis-feld_ as in Teviotdale. Geogr. Illustr.
_Gud_ Lundy _than till hym he callit thar,_ _And_ Hew _the_ Hay, _off Louchowort was ayr._--V. 581.
“Richard de _Lundie_, _Lundin_, or _London_, was a powerful baron in the shire of Fife. He brought five hundred men to Wallace’s aid in the encounter with Macfadyan near Craigmore, in Perthshire.--Lundie, having become dissatisfied with some of the Scottish leaders, was on the side of the English in the battle of Stirling Bridge, September 11, 1297.
“In a charter by King William the Lion to the town of Perth, 1210, one of the witnesses is Robert de _London_, the king’s son. This natural son of the king had married the heiress of Lundin in Fife, and from her lands took his surname. Richard was their lineal descendant.
“In 1679, the family of Lundie, because of their descent, obtained liberty to bear the royal arms of Scotland. Afterwards the heiress married John Drummond, Earl of Melfort,” second son of James, Earl of Perth. This family is now represented by the Hon. R. P. Burrel Drummond of Perth.
I have extracted the greatest part of this note from those added to the Perth Edit. of Wallace, by my worthy friend the late Reverend James Scott of Perth, well known as an accurate and indefatigable antiquary. V. also Nisbet, I. p. 64. 107.