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 20 and of the Old Bridge; and after reconnoi- tering the situation and numbers of the Eng- lish he prepared for an assault, by dividing his force into two columns ; the one, under the command of Boswell Laird of Auchinleck, and Adam Wallace, his uncle, he directed to form a corpse of reserve, while he with the main body, atacked the enemy in front— When so engaged, Auchinleck's party were ordered to march by St. Mungo’s lane, or Burnt Barns, towards the South-east quarter of the Drygate, near to which the English, to the amount of a thousand men were placed and thus fall upon the enemy on the flank.

The action having accordingly commenced, with great bravery on both sides, the Eng- lish, from the superiority of their number, seemed fob some time to have the better of the day.—However the column which was under Auchimeck, to the amount of 140, having arrived by marching up the Drygate, they unexpectedly attacked the enemy in flank, and thus turned the scale of victory in favour of the Scots: who, upon the flight of the English pursued them and Bishop Beck, to the Castle cf Both well, nine mils east of the City, where they obtained shelter; and Wallace and his army, returned, to Glas- gow, after having killed in this engagement, Percy, the English General, and seven hun- dred of his men—if we can credit the occcusts, handed down to us by the Scottish historians of that time.