92                                                      AN   ACCOUNT                       [Ch. II.—Dumfries-shire.
Long after the expulsion and death of Albany, Scotland did not want
agitators while the Douglases remained. In the rebellion of 1488 against
James III., Lord Maxwell, who had now the chief sway in Dumfriesshire,
supported his sovereign; but " the thieves of Annandale," as Pitscottie
calls the borderers, were induced by the treasonous Earl of Angus to join
the rebels, and those thieves are said to have contributed to the defeat and
death of the king in June 1488 (m). After the fall of James III., Lord
Maxwell appears to have made his peace with the rebellious chiefs, and
he was appointed with the Earl of Angus to rule Dumfriesshire, till
James IV. should attain the age of one and twenty years (n).
In August 1504, James IV. made an inroad into Eskdale and other disor-
derly parts of Dumfriesshire, and caused a number of thieves to be hanged.
On the 21st of the same month the king was at Canonbie, on the 12th of
September he was at Dumfries, and on the 17th of this last month he went
from Lochmaben to Peebles on his way to Edinburgh (o). In 1505, after
the death of John Lindsay of Wauchope, in Eskdale, Bartholomew Glendyning
was appointed by the king's precept his sheriff in that part, to set out the
third part of Lindsay's estates for the widow's tierce. Glendyning carried
his brother Simon with him to execute this duty ; but Lindsay, the son,
collected a body of men and slew both the Glendynings in the perform-
ance of their duties. In June 1505, a summons of treason was issued against
Lindsay. For this outrage, Lindsay was tried and convicted by parliament (p),
mighty service. Crichton and Carrathers were rewarded with a grant of land. Alexander
Kirkpatrick, the brother of Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, obtained the lands of Kirkmichael in Annandule,
for taking Douglas. Scotstarvit's Calendar. Robert Charteris of Annisfield had for his service on
that day, a grant of Palmentre in Kirkcudbright, which had been taken from his grandfather by Earl
Douglas. Nisbet's Heraldry, ii. App. 142.
(m) Ferrerius, 399 ; Lesley, 316; Pitscottie, 89-90.
(n) That ordinance for governing the several districts of Scotland, was passed on the 17th
of October 1488, by the first parliament of James IV. Acta Parl., ii. 208. The king was then
fifteen years and seven months old, and he became of age in March 1494. Such were the
rewards which the rebellious chiefs conferred upon themselves 1 In 1508, John Lord Maxwell,
who held the office of steward of Annandale, was in arrear to the king no less than £3745 1s. 1d.
upon his account, which he had given into the exchequer ; and being unable to pay such a
sum, obtained from the king in 1508 a remission for the whole on paying £1000. Privy
Seal Reg., iv. 21. He paid the £1000 to the treasurer on the 7th of March 1508-9,
Treasurer's Acco.
(o) The Treasurer's Accounts. In 1503-4 James IV. built a large hall in the castle of Loch-
maben, and he made great repairs and improvements on that castle in 1503-4-5 and
1506. Id.                                                 (p) Acta Parl., ii. 264-5.