“This vow full well the King perform’d
After, on Humbledown,
In one day fifty Knights were slain
With Lords of great renown.”
In the second volume of Guthrie’s History of Scotland, the battle is fully described.
Sir Swinton was a doughty knight
As ever Scotland bred;
Than Gordon none more brave in fight,
Did ever cross the Tweed.
But deidly feuds subsisted long