The deed is signed at Edinburgh, 3d February, 1542. In the collection, from which this extract is made, there are bonds of a similar nature granted to Lord Maxwell, by Douglas of Drumlanrig, ancestor of the Duke of Queensberry; by Crichton Lord Sanquhar, ancestor of the earls of Dumfries, and many of his kindred; by Stuart of Castlemilk; by Stuart of Garlies, ancestor of the earls of Galloway; by Murray of Cockpool, ancestor of the Murrays, lords Annandale; by Grierson of Lagg, Gordon of Lochmaben, and many other of the most ancient and respectable barons in the south-west of Scotland, binding themselves, in the most submissive terms, to become the Liegemen and the vassals of the house of Maxwell; a circumstance which must highly excite our idea of the power of that family.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
I was amongst her Liegemen, and am so still, but the incense is all gone and the censer of no value.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Mar And Liegemen to the Dane.
"Hamlet"
William Shakespeare