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                                7 escaped at a back-door, and got in safety to a rugged and rocky glen, called the Cartland Crags.

In the meantime, the governor of Lanark, whose name was Hazelrigg, burned Wal- lace’s house, and cruelly put his wife and servants to death; and,by doing this, increased to the highest pitch the hatred which Wallace had always borne against the English. Hazelrigg also proclaimed him an outlaw, and offered a reward to any one who should bring him to an English garrison, alive or dead.

About this time is said to have taken place.a memorable event, which the Scottish people call the Barns of Ayr. It is said the English governor of Ayr had invited the greatest part of the Scottish nobility and gentry in the western parts to meet him at some large buildings called the Barns of Ayr, for the purpose of friendly con- ference upon the affairs of the nation. But the English Earl entertained treacherous