A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . of Comyn does not appearto be established. There seems to have been some peculiarityabout his trial and punishment. According to Matthew of West-minster, he was regarded as an Englishman, and not as a Scottish 1 Collections, vol. i. part ii. p. 543. state of decay, the fine arched entrance was in 2 Tytlers History of Scotland, i. 452. Loch- good preservation about thirty years Castle is situated on an islet near the 3 See Barbo
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . of Comyn does not appearto be established. There seems to have been some peculiarityabout his trial and punishment. According to Matthew of West-minster, he was regarded as an Englishman, and not as a Scottish 1 Collections, vol. i. part ii. p. 543. state of decay, the fine arched entrance was in 2 Tytlers History of Scotland, i. 452. Loch- good preservation about thirty years Castle is situated on an islet near the 3 See Barbours The Bruce, iv. 16 et of the lake. Although in an advanced * MDiarmids Picture of Dumfries, p. 48. CHAPEL AT DUMFRIES 77 subject. Besides their Scotch estates, the Seton family hadextensive possessions in England at the beginning of thefourteenth century—viz., Seaton in Northumberland, now calledSeaton-Delaval, and Seaton of Whitbystrand in Yorkshire. Inproof of this, Dugdale, in his Baronage of England (ii. 736), saysthat the manor of Seaton of Whitbystrand, which formed a partof the estate of Christopher Seton, was given by Edward 1. to. *ro«c if wo rt/t-Ae* «^«^f(d h J*-iH*li DUMFRIES ihe It Cint»iy f»oi *>b f »1 5IJ Cmrm«u »Mi» -^ Bf»*« t« JohS ^ Edmond Manly, on account of his valiant conduct in the Scottishwars; while his lands in Northumberland were given to LordWilliam Latimer. So dear to Bruce was the memory of his faithful friend andbrother-in-law,1 that he afterwards erected, on the site of theexecution, a little chapel, in honour of the Virgin Mary, where 1 See Barbours The Bruce, v. 156 et seq. 78 MAJOR ADAIRS TABLET mass was to be said perpetually for Sir Christophers soul. Therelative foundation, says Sir Richard Maitland, I have had oftin my handis, and red it sindrie tymes. The quhilk chapell wasstandand haill and undecayit in the yeir of God 1552 yeiris, as Isaw myself; and as I beleve standis yit in the sa
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