That time he brent with all his powre.
Wharever thai overtook the Inglis men,
Thai spared none, but slewe all down.”
Hector Boece says: “He brent and harried all Northumberland and Newcastle.” “He took Dunotter and slewe all personnes found in it.”
The blind minstrel glories in the details of these deeds, telling us “how Wallace burnt four thousand Englishmen in the kirk of Dunotter:—
“Some hung on crags right dolefully to die,
Some leapt, some fell, some fluttered in the sea;
No Southron was left in all that hold,
And all within they burnt to powder cold.”