Crossword-Solution: CARSE 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Here is Janet of Tomahourich--auld Janet, your father’s sister.” “Plague on her, for an auld Highland witch and spaewife,” said a farmer from the Carse of Stirling; “she’ll cast some of her cantrips on the cattle.” “She canna do that,” said another sapient of the same profession.

The granaries of Scotland are the banks of the Tweed, the counties of East and Mid-Lothian, the Carse of Gowrie, in Perthshire, equal in fertility to any part of England, and some tracts in Aberdeenshire and Murray, where I am told the harvest is more early than in Northumberland, although they lie above two degrees farther north.

Crossing the Forth above Stirling, he marched through Perth and across the Carse of Gowrie through Forfar on to Montrose.

Above, the banks were too high and steep to be passed; while below, where ran the Bannock through the carse, the swamps prevented passage.

Lord Clifford was therefore despatched with 800 picked men-at-arms to cross the Bannock beyond the left wing of the Scottish army, to make their way across the carse, and so to reach Stirling.