Black Douglas, The

The, Sir James Douglas, a character in Scott's Castle Dangerous, a story of the series, The Tales of My Landlord. Black Douglas was a generic name given to the elder branch of the noble Scottish family of Douglas. The scene of the story is Scotland, the time the fourteenth century, while Edward I of England and Bruce of Scotland are at war. The plot is concerned largely with the efforts of the Black Douglas to win back his castle from the English. See Douglas