[1] Neuerthelesse, Robert Bruce in this meane while slept not his businesse, but ranging abroad in the countrie, flue manie that would not obeie him, and sent foorth his two brethren, Thomas that was a knight, and Alexander that was a préest, with part of his armie into an other quarter of the countrie, to al|lure the people vnto his obedience, partlie with gen|tlenesse,Thomas Bruce and Alexander Bruce taken. and partlie with menaces. But the English|men came vpon them in the night and tooke them both, so that being brought before the iustices they were condemned, and therevpon hanged, drawen and quartered. Matth. West. ¶ Some write, that Duncan Mag|doili, a man of great power in Galloway, tooke these two brethren prisoners, togither with Reginald Crawford (being the principlas) on the ninth daie of Februarie, as they with certeine other capteins and men of war came by sea, and landed in his coun|trie, vpon whome being seuen hundred men, he with three hundred or few aboue that number boldlie gaue the onset, and not onelie tooke the said thrée persons prisoners, sore wounded as they were, with diuerse other, but also slue Malcolme Makaile a lord of Ken|tice, and two Irish lords, whose heads, and the fore|said prisoners, he presented vnto king Edward, who caused Thomas Bruce to be hanged,Tho. Bruce executed. Alexander Bruce & Re|ginald Craw|ford executed. drawen and quartered, but the other two were onelie hanged and quartered at Carleill, where their heads were set vp aloft on the castell and gates of the citie.