The History of Dunbar: From the Earliest Records to the Present Period: with a Description of the Ancient Castles and Picturesque Scenery on the Borders of East Lothian |
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... siege of the Castle - Black Agnes - Win- ton's account of the siege , CHAP . VII . History of George , tenth Earl of Dunbar - The ( Border Forays - Hotspur - Death of Douglas , 44 61 · 71 Crap . VIII . — Lady Elizabeth Dunbar ...
... siege of the Castle - Black Agnes - Win- ton's account of the siege , CHAP . VII . History of George , tenth Earl of Dunbar - The ( Border Forays - Hotspur - Death of Douglas , 44 61 · 71 Crap . VIII . — Lady Elizabeth Dunbar ...
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... siege of Da- mietta in Egypt . ‡ J On his marriage with Euphemia , daughter of Walter , high steward of Scotland , he got the lands of Birkenside in Lauderdale . Holinshed's Chron . , Chal . Cal . ii . 242 . Previous to his departure ...
... siege of Da- mietta in Egypt . ‡ J On his marriage with Euphemia , daughter of Walter , high steward of Scotland , he got the lands of Birkenside in Lauderdale . Holinshed's Chron . , Chal . Cal . ii . 242 . Previous to his departure ...
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... siege to Dunbar , which was de- fended by the flower of the Scottish nobility . But the garrison were so much reduced , that they beg- ged a cessation of hostilities for three days , in order that they might have time to inform Baliol ...
... siege to Dunbar , which was de- fended by the flower of the Scottish nobility . But the garrison were so much reduced , that they beg- ged a cessation of hostilities for three days , in order that they might have time to inform Baliol ...
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... siege . The earl of Dunbar and Lord Archibald Douglas concluded a truce with Baliol till the 2nd February 1333 , while the infant Bruce had to retire from the storm , and seek shelter and protection in the vallies of France under the ...
... siege . The earl of Dunbar and Lord Archibald Douglas concluded a truce with Baliol till the 2nd February 1333 , while the infant Bruce had to retire from the storm , and seek shelter and protection in the vallies of France under the ...
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... siege with redoubled vigour . The garrison being at length reduced to great extremi- ty for want of provisions , on the 15th July , a capitu- lation was subscribed betwixt the English monarch on the one hand , and Patrick , earl of ...
... siege with redoubled vigour . The garrison being at length reduced to great extremi- ty for want of provisions , on the 15th July , a capitu- lation was subscribed betwixt the English monarch on the one hand , and Patrick , earl of ...
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Page 127 - Though not a man of them knew wherefore; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared rout, to battle sounded; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling.
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Page 142 - Musselburgh, to victual, and to ship away our sick men; where we sent aboard near five hundred sick and wounded soldiers. " And upon serious consideration, finding our weakness so to increase, and the Enemy lying upon his advantage, — at a general council it was thought fit to march to Dunbar, and there to fortify the Town. Which (we thought), if anything, would provoke them to engage.
Page 143 - And truly this was an exigent to us. wherewith the enemy reproached us with that condition the Parliament army was in when it made its hard conditions with the King in Cornwall. By some reports that have come to us, they had disposed of us, and of their business, in sufficient revenge and wrath towards our persons, and had swallowed up the poor interest of England, believing that their army and their King would have marched to London without any interruption...
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