. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. e reign of David appears to have continued in this family for a considerableperiod, but according to Blind Harry, the Minstrel, at the timewhen the struggle arose for national independence, it was pos-sessed by Hugh de Bradfute. The narrative of the Minstrelregarding the Bradfutes is generally considered .to be a gooddeal mixed up with fiction, if not wholly fictitious, but we pro-pose to give the substance of it, leaving the reader to attachwhat credit to it he may think pr
. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. e reign of David appears to have continued in this family for a considerableperiod, but according to Blind Harry, the Minstrel, at the timewhen the struggle arose for national independence, it was pos-sessed by Hugh de Bradfute. The narrative of the Minstrelregarding the Bradfutes is generally considered .to be a gooddeal mixed up with fiction, if not wholly fictitious, but we pro-pose to give the substance of it, leaving the reader to attachwhat credit to it he may think proper. Hugh Braidfoot died previous to the year 1295, and left ason and a daughter. Hesilrig, the English Sheriff of Lanark,put the young Laird to death ; and his sister, whose name wasMarion, purchased the protection of the English, and left the EARLY CONTERMINOUS PROPRIETORS. 593 Tower of Lamington. The fragment of an old building stillexists near the village of Lamington, which, in the opinionof some persons, is part of the very tower once occupied bythe Bradfutes. We give the following representation of Marion Bradfute then took up her abode at Lanark. SirWilliam Wallace, in the year 1296, occasionally sojourned atGilbank, in the parish of Lesmahagow, the residence of hisuncle, Nicol Auchinleck. It was his wont, when living here,to repair at times for recreation to the town of Lanark ; andhere he accidentally met with the heiress of Lamington. Atthe time at which Wallace first saw her, she was little morethan eighteen years of age, possessed of great personal attrac-tions, and distinguished no less for her modesty than for heramiable and generous disposition. Wallace fell deeply in lovewith her; and finding that his love was returned, he, aftermuch hesitation, on account of his own unsettled mode of lifeand the disturbed state of the country, made her his wife,greatly to the mortification of the English Sheriff, who, itseems, had a design to wed her to his son. Some tim
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