[Footnote 2:  At the battle of Arkinholme, the Earl of Angus, a near kinsman of Douglas, commanded the royal forces; and the difference of their complexion occasioned the saying, “that the Black Douglas had put down the Red.”  The Maxwells, the Johnstones, and the Scotts, composed his army.  Archibald, earl of Murray, brother to Douglas, was slain in the action; and Hugh, Earl of Ormond, his second brother, was taken and executed.  His captors, Lord Carlisle, and the Baron of Johnstone, were rewarded with a grant of the lands of Pittinane, upon Clyde.—­Godscroft, Vol.  I. p. 375.—­Balfour’s MS. in the Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh.—­Abercrombie’s Achievements, Vol.  II. p. 361. folio Ed.—­The other chiefs were also distinguished by royal favour.  By a charter, upon record, dated 25th February, 1458, the king grants to Walter Scott of Kirkurd, ancestor of the house of Buccleuch, the lands of Abingtown, Phareholm, and Glentonan craig, in Lanarkshire.

“Pro suo fideli servitio nobis impenso et pro quod interfuit in conflictu de Arkenholme in occisione et captione nostrorum rebellium quondam Archibaldi et Hugonis de Douglas olim comitum Moraviae et de Ormond et aliorum rebellium nostrorum in eorum comitiva existen:  ibidem captorum et interfectorum.”

Similar grants of land were made to Finnart and Arran, the two branches of the house of Hamilton; to the chiefs of the Battisons; but, above all, to the Earl of Angus who obtained from royal favour a donation of the Lordship of Douglas, and many other lands, now held by Lord Douglas, as his representative.  There appears, however, to be some doubt, whether, in this division, the Earl of Angus received more than his natural right.  Our historians, indeed, say, that William I. Earl of Douglas, had three sons; 1.  James, the 2d Earl, who died in the field of Otterburn; 2.  Archibald, the Grim, 3d Earl; and 3.  George, in right of his mother, earl of Angus.  Whether, however, this Archibald was actually the son of William, seems very doubtful; and Sir David Dalrymple has strenuously maintained the contrary.  Now, if Archibald, the Grim, intruded into the earldom of Douglas, without being a son of that family, it follows that the house of Angus, being kept out of their just rights for more than a century, were only restored to them after the battle of Arkinholme.  Perhaps, this may help to account for the eager interest taken by the earl of Angus against his kinsman.—­Remarks on History of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1773. p. 121.]

[Footnote 3:  A grant of the king, dated 2d October, 1484, bestowed upon Kirkpatrick, for this acceptable service, the lands of Kirkmichael.]