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[Page] 7D

Hollinshed's Chronicles VOL [VOLUME] 2 = Page 13.
(printed in Arbroath)

At the time of the war between David II and
Edward III is the following passage -
"At length this Andrew Murray assembling a great power
with support of them of Murray, Marr, & Breichen,
fought with his enemies at Panmure, where
he obtained the victory with huge slaughter of
Englishmen and other of his adversaries. In
this battle were slain Henrie Mountfort, who
latelie before had been sent by King Edward
into Scotland to support the Balliol, beside
four thousand others, the most part gentlemen
so that this overthrow was very displeasant
to the King of England, having his side sore
weakened thereby" According Hollinshed,
this battle seems to have occured in 1337 or earlier,
for after noticing various other occurences
apparently subsequent to the battle of Panmure,
and another conflict in the south of Scotland,
he adds "(at which battel also was King
Edward the Earl of Gloucester the Lords Persie &
Neul being in the year 1337 as saith scala chron [chronica])"
And again, page 14, he adds "not long after
Andrew Murray the governor of Scotland deceased
to the great damage of the Commonwealth, and
was buried in Rosmarkie in the year after
the birth of our Saviour 1338"-
[Signed]
John Keely
2d. Corpl. RE [Second Corporal Royal Engineers]