The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . cember takes no notice of this circumstance, beyond the factof Comyns being aided in his rising by the kings nephew,Sir David de Brechin, and Sir John Mowbray ; but Buchanansays that when Bruce was come to the forest through whichthe river Esk falls down into the plains of Merns, Comyn over-took him at a place called Glenesk. Bruce, perceiving thatthe narrowness of the passages was advantageous to his men,being few in number, stood ready to fight, expecting his
The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . cember takes no notice of this circumstance, beyond the factof Comyns being aided in his rising by the kings nephew,Sir David de Brechin, and Sir John Mowbray ; but Buchanansays that when Bruce was come to the forest through whichthe river Esk falls down into the plains of Merns, Comyn over-took him at a place called Glenesk. Bruce, perceiving thatthe narrowness of the passages was advantageous to his men,being few in number, stood ready to fight, expecting his drew out his army at length, imagining that Brucewould be astonished at the sight of such a multitude; butseeing that he stirred not from the place, and being alsoconscious of the weakness of his own men, he durst not drawthem forth into a place of greater disadvantage. Comyn,accordingly, found it advisable to sue for a truce, which wasgranted to him on the faith of his retiring from the contestand becoming an obedient subject; others however affirm, that 1 Laing, Wayside Floxcers, p. 52, second l*3£\W c * GLENESK—REMAINS ON THE ROWAN. 97 on the approach of Bruce, Buchans troops These warriors are locally said to have fought abloody battlehere, and the artificial-looking cairns that lie scattered alongthe south-east side of the Bowan are called the graves of theslain, while the name of that hill is said to have had its originin the adventure of that day, when, as the local tradition runs,the King rallied his forces by calling out Bow-in !2 In themidst of these cairns, by the side of the old road across thehill, a large whinstone, with the rudely incised figure of across, is pointed out, as that on which Bruce planted hisstandard, and another stone, among the birks at Ardoch,bearing a few oblique lines, as that on which he sharpened hissword after the engagement! It is not improbable that the stone bearing a cross upon ithad been in Lochlee long
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