[1] The conflict began after the monks of the Abbey of Arbroath appointed Alexander Lindsay, Master of Crawford, as the "Bailie of the Regality", a position charged with dispensing justice throughout the jurisdiction of the monastery.

[2] The Ogilvy army left the Abbey, making a last desperate stand about three miles away, at the village of Leysmill, where they rallied and turned to face the pursuers.

[2] This couplet was engraved on the aisle where he was buried: "While the girss grows green and the water rins clear, Let nane but Ogilvys lie here".

[2] Though the battle ended in Clan Lindsay's favor, they lost a disproportionate number of men, not to mention the Earl of Crawford.

[2] Alexander Ogilvy, Forbes of Pitsligo, Brucklay of Gartley, Gordon of Borrowfield, and Sir John Oliphant of Aberdalgie perished.

[2] Following the battle, the Master of Crawford, who would later be known as "The Tiger Earl of Crawford", unleashed what remained of his army upon the lands of his enemies: "and the flames of their castles, the slaughter of their vassals, the plunder of their property, and the captivity of their wives and children, instructed the remotest adherents of the Bailie of Aborath, how terrible was the vengeance which they had provoked".

A local tale stated that for hundreds of years, the large boots and spurs of the Baron hung over the aisle.