A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . Fig. 14.—Signature of George Douglas, Master of Angus (1496). elsewhere, describing the Masters last actions. Stanleyhad broken the Scottish left under Lennox and Argyll;in the centre— The stubborn spearmen still made goodTheir dark impenetrable wood, when King James dismounted to make his stand amongthem. Seeing the Master of Angus still on horseback,he cried to him, asking if it had been the manner of hisrace to remain mounted while their sovereign fought on„. , , foot. Douglas r
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . Fig. 14.—Signature of George Douglas, Master of Angus (1496). elsewhere, describing the Masters last actions. Stanleyhad broken the Scottish left under Lennox and Argyll;in the centre— The stubborn spearmen still made goodTheir dark impenetrable wood, when King James dismounted to make his stand amongthem. Seeing the Master of Angus still on horseback,he cried to him, asking if it had been the manner of hisrace to remain mounted while their sovereign fought on„. , , foot. Douglas replied roughly by asking if it His death at t> r i> J J t. Flodden, 9th was the fashiou of the King of Scots to wear his15^13!^™ ^^ ^^^ ^^ armorial bearings when fighting on a delicate point of chivalry was touched,for the King, says Godscroft, flung off his armour andretorted— I dare fight upon my feet as well as you or 1 Reg. Magiii Sigiiii, ii. 2962. ? Fraser, iii. 200. ^ See p. 41, 52 THE HOUSE OF DOUGLAS any subject I have, and that without coat-armour or royal cognisance. Horse and foot, spearmen and billmen, now closed round the doomed band. King James, fighting his way through the mellay, fell within a lance-length of Scottish spears, amongwhom he might have foundsafety, made good their de-fence till nightfall. If it wasGeorge Douglass taunt thatstung the King to throw awayhis life, George was equalto his sovereign in recklessdaring, for his corpse wasnumbered among those oftwelve Scottish earls and Fi<T. 15.—Seal of Gcorcre Doulas, , , , , . , , Master of Angus (1469-1513)- Seventeen lords, which laystark upon the sward, amongtwo hundred gentlemen, as Godscroft avers, of the nameof Douglas. By his wife, Elizabeth Drummond, the Master ofAngus left three sons and four daughters:— (i) Archibald, who succeeded Bell-the-Cat as 6th Earlof Angus [1.]. (2) Sir George Douglas of Pittendreich [li.], who took a notable, if no
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