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., page 422, is the passage to which I have alluded. ‘In the same year, and on the 21st of the month,’--it commences, these being 1390, and April,--‘the Lord David Lindesay is made first Earl of Crawfurd, a valiant Knight, and in all warlike virtues most highly commended; who, with other proofs of them, had a glorious triumph over the Lord Wells of England, in his days a most famous soldier, at London, in the presence of King Richard II., in the year 1390, in a warlike pastime with spears: of which proof of military prowess, the fame hath hitherto been widely celebrated throughout England.’

“The next authority which I shall adduce is that of Andrew of Wyntoun, a Scottish Chronicler, who was Canon Regular of St. Andrews, and Prior of the Monastery of St. Serf in Loch-leven; and who died about the year 1420. The best edition of his labours is that beautiful one, entitled ‘_The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, be Androw of Wyntown, Priowr of Sanct Serfis Ynche_,’--that is Isle,--‘_in Loch levyn. Now first published with Notes and a Glossary, by David Macpherson_,’ London, 1815, 8vo., 2 volumes. In the Second Volume of this work then, at page 353, the commencement of