The term is not ancestré in MS. but may be read imcrasé, imtrasé, uncrasé, or untrasé. But as neither of these give any known sense, I have retained the word which occurs in all the editions. The only word that seems to have any resemblance is O. Fr. entraisser (s’,) s’animer, s’exciter; Gl. Roquefort.
Tharfor I will bot lychtly ryn that cace.—V. 918.
Edit. 1594, rais; i.e. as in Edit. 1648, race; which is a more natural mode of expression.
A trew squier, quhilk Rwan hecht be nayme.—V. 1009.
Ruthuen, Edit. 1594, i. e. Ruthven, the ancestor of the unfortunate family of Gowrie. As it is said that Wallace made him captain and hereditary sheriff of Perth, it deserves observation that his descendants for several generations seem almost exclusively to have possessed authority in that town. V. Cant’s Hist. Perth, vol. II.
At Crummadé feill Inglissmen thai slew.—V. 1085.
This is Cromartie, Edit. 1594, &c.
Hew Kertyngayme the wantgard ledis he,
With twenty thousand off likly men to se.—V. 1171.
This refers to the battle of Stirling-bridge. He is called Kirkinghame in editions. But the person meant was Cressingham, an ecclesiastic, who was the king’s treasurer, “a pompous and haughty man,” says Hemingford, who hurried on the battle in opposition to the counsel of Lundie and others. Hist. p. 118. 127. 129.