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DUNBAR. 199 verock. He was aged 24 in 1309. He, like his father, favoured the English faction, and after the defeat of King Edward IT. at Baunoekburn 24 June 1314, received him into Ilia castle of Dunbar and enabled him to escape into England. After losing this unexampled opportunity of serving the Scots, he went over to their side and was in the Pari, at Ayr in April 1315 when the succession to the Crown [S.l was settled ; was at the capture of Berwick, March 1318, being then Sheriff of Lothian ; signed the letter 1320 to the Pope asserting the independency of Scotland ; was at the defeat of Dupplin, 11 May 1332, and of Halidon Hill, 19 July 1333, at which time the fort of Berwick, of which he was Governor, was surrendered to Edward III. and he himself for the 2d time joined the English side, which he again, in the next year, deserted and assisted in some small skirmishes against them, while his gallant Countess maintained a nineteen weeks siege, from Jany. 1337/8, of the Castle of Dunbar by the English whom she forced to retire therefrom. He was at the defeat of the Scots in the battle of Durham, 17 Oct. 1346, and was one of the sureties for the release of King David II. [S.] from captivity in 1357, receiving from him various grants, the town of Dunbar being erected a free burgh in his favour. He m. firstly, 1303-4, Ermigarda. lie m. secoudly (disp. 16 Jan. 1323/4) Agnes, elder da. of Thomas (Random>h), 1st Earl ok Moray [S.], sometime Regent [S.j, by (probably) Isabel, da. of Sir John Stewart of Bonkill. This lady, usually known as '• Black Agnes," the heroine (as before mentioned) of the siege of Dunbar, became(l7 Oct. 1346) by the death of her br. John, 3d Earl of Moray [S.] a coheir of that family whose estates included the Isle of Man, the Lordship of Annandale, &c. Earl Patrick in her right had, 1357-8, a grant of the EARLD0M( a ) OF MORAY [S.] Both lus sous( b ) being dead, s.p., he resigned his Earldom of March, or Dunbar, to the Crown who granted the same 25 July 136S, to his great nephew and h. male, George Dunbar and "his heirs."( c ) He d. soon afterwards, 11 Nov. 1368 (having possessed his Earldom 60 years), aged 84. X. 1368. 10. George^ 1 ) (Dunbar), Earl op March, or Dun- bar [S.], great nephew and heir male, being s. and h. of Sir Patrick Dunbar, by Isabel, yst. da. of Thomas (Randolph), Earl op Moray [S.] abovenamed, which Patrick (who was at the battle of Poitiers 19 Sep. 135G, but who d. that year in Candia) was s. and h. of John Dunbar, next br. to the late Earl of March, or Dunbar. He was b. about 1336; was one of the Wardens of the Marches, 1372 ; was at the Pari, at Scone, 1373, when the succession to the throne [S.] was settled ; accompanied Douglas in bis raid into England, after whose death at Otterburu, in 13S8, the command of the Scots devolved on him. His da., Elizabeth, having been betrothed to the Duke of liotbsay [S.], the h. ap. to the Crown [S.], and that prince, disregarding such contract, (having w.Marjorie Douglas in Feb. 1399/40), theEarl renounced his allegiance and joined the English ( c ), whose King (Henry IV) (") The Earldom of Moray [S.] as conferred on Sir Thomas Randolph in 1314 was a male fief. It was, however, again conferred 9 March 1371/2, on John de Dunbar, next br. of Earl George (who apparently was heir of line), both being sous of Sir Patrick Dunbar, by Isabel, yst da. of Thomas (Randolph), Earl of Moray abovenamed. ( b ) Their names were Patrick, who was ft. 1304 and d. before 5 Sep. 1351, and John, living 5 Sep. 1351, and 5 Oct. 1354, who d. before (this date) July 1368. ( c ) This is the first record of any charter settling the title. In it the Earl is designed " Patricius Dunbarr, miles, ultimus Comes cjitsdcm," referring to the words " lotum comitatum marchic" which appear in the line above. Ex inform. A. H. Dunbar. ( d ) This seems a very early occurrence of the Christian name " George," not> perhaps, very usual in England till the birth, in 1449, of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, 1461-78. (°) In his very curious letter, 18 Feb. 1399/400, from Dunbar to Henry IV he writes (claiming cousinship with that King), "If dnme Alice the Bewmont was gour Graunde-damc dame Marjory Comyn, her full sister, was my Oraunde-damc on the other side." The writer's great grandmother, Marjory Cumyn (Countess of March, or Dunbar, abovenamed) was aunt (not Bister) to Alice, Lady Beaumont (nei Cumyn) whose daughter, Isabel, Duchess of Lancaster was (maternal) grandmother to Henry IV, to which King, therefore, the writer- was third cousin once removed. It must be noted that the word " Graunde-damc" means Great tiraiK/rnuther. (See Jamieson's Scott. Diet.) The word " Gudame " would have been used for (riwiciinother. The letter is in facsknile in the Nat. MSS. [S.], Part ii, No. D3.