Note 16 — 266

“One John Thomson is mentioned as an officer in the army of Edward Bruce in Ireland. After Bruce’s death, he led back to Scotland the remnant of his army. In 1333, he held for David Bruce the castle of Lochdoun in Carrick. Sir W. Scott thus characterizes him: ‘John Thomson, a man of obscure birth and dauntless valor, the same apparently who led back from Ireland the shattered remainder of Edward Bruce’s army, held out for his rightful sovereign.’ History of Scotland, I, 181.” Note by Motherwell in Mr Ramsay’s copy of the Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. ix.