This, if not from O. Fr. _ensuairé_, wound up, lapt in, may be equivalent to _ensured_; as the Minstrel uses _sufferance_ for _souerance_ or _assurance_.
_Till_ Crage Vuyn _with thre hundir he yeid._--V. 649.
To _Craghumyre_, Edit. 1594, 1620, 1648, and 1673. _Cragunyn_, 1714; _Crage Vyum_, Edit. Perth. As this is connected with Lochow, it may be _Crage Ewan_ in Lochdochart, as laid down in Bleau’s Atlas.
_Fast vpon_ Aviss _that was bathe depe and braid._--V. 654.
This is obviously the word in MS. But I suspect that it is an error for _Awfe_, which occurs in Edit. 1594, 1620, 1648, and 1673. It is undoubtedly the river _Awe_ that is meant, whence the name of _Lochawe_ or Lochow.
_Dunkan off Lorn his_ leyff _at Wallace ast;_ _On Makfadyane with worthi men he past._--V. 861.
In MS. it is _lyff_, apparently denoting _life_, which would render the passage self-contradictory. In Edit. 1594 and 1620, _leiue_; 1648, _leave_. The meaning is; “Duncan asked permission of Wallace to pursue Macfadyane.”
_Of nobill blud, and alss haill_ ancestré.--V. 893.
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.
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.