"After many ceremonies done,
He calls for wine. 'A health,' quoth he, as if
He had been abroad carousing to his mates
After a storm.——Quaffed off the muscadel,
And threw the sops all in the sexton's face."
[8] This castle and its fortifications were demolished by Sir Eustace Maxwell, (the steady, warm-hearted friend of King Robert Bruce,) lest it should fall into the hands of the enemy: and for which generous action lands were given to him, the tenure by which he held them being thus noticed:—"Pro fractione et prostratione castri de Caerlaverock," &c. &c.
[9] Dalrymple's Memoirs.
[10] Vide "Minstrelsy of the Scottish border."—"Beauties of Scotland."
[11] "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," vol. I. p. 218.
[12] Joanna Baillie's "Family Legend."