This Earl lived quite independent of his Prince, James I, and
through refentment to the minifter, permitted the neighboring
thieves of Annandale to lay wafte the country, when his power,
¡perhaps equal to the regal, might have fuppreflfed their barbarity.
tie died in 1438. IB
I The Douglaffes and Percies were rivals in deeds of arms; and
fortune, as ufual, failed or frowned alternately on each o f thele
| i « T h f f a t , feventh Earl of Boughs, next appears in effigy
L another tomb : a peaceable chieftain, who feems to have been
'-in too good cafe to give any difturbance to the common-wealth.
¡He died in 14+3; and his lady, Beatrix de Sinclair, lies by him.
Their offspring is alfo enumerated in the infcriptron. ^ _
Ride for fome time in Dough/dale, a trad deficient in wood,
l u l great fertility: the foil fine, and of an uncommon depth ;
¡yielding fine barley and oats,moft flovenly kept, and full of weeds :
[the country full o f gentle rifings. Arrive in a flat extent of
[ground, defcend to the river Clyde, crofs a bridge o f three arches,
Ktfcend a fteep road, and reach
I Lanerk: a town that gives name to the county. Here the
¡gallant Wallace made his firft effort to redeem his country rom
(the tyranny of the Englifi, taking the place and flaying the governor,
a man of rank*. The caftle flood on a mount on the
[S. fide of the t6wn •, and not far to the Eaft, is a ruined cfarc ,
(perhaps belonging to the convent o f Francifcans, founded by Robert
¡ Bruce, in j 314.
* Buchanan, lib ,vui. c. 18.
Not
Lanerk