The Gledstones and the Siege of Coklaw

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Edmonston, 1878 - 80 Seiten
 

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Seite 61 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night : They lay down to rest With...
Seite 58 - ... epitaphs on the same prelate, of no higher delicacy, and certainly not less virulent, are recorded. Spotswood, who ran perhaps as high on the opposite side, though doubtless somewhat more tempered, characterises the archbishop as " a man of good learning, ready utterance, and great invention ; but of an easy nature, and induced by those he trusted, to do many things hurtful to the see.
Seite 54 - And shot amang them as we might. With help of God the game gaed right, Frae time the foremost of them fell; Then ower the know without goodnight, They ran, with mony a shout and yell.
Seite 53 - And planted down palliones14' there to bide. We looked down the other side, And saw come breasting ower the brae, Wi' Sir John Forster for their guyde, Full fifteen hundred men and mae.
Seite 53 - Teviotdale came to wi! speed ; The Shirrif brought the Douglas down, Wi' Cranstone, Gladstone, good at need, Baith Rewle Water and Hawick Town." It is an eager, keen - eyed, and impassioned assembly, and it needed but the first semblance of impatient word on the part of a leader to stir the string of every bow among his followers in the gathering. The Eedesdale Borderers — who...
Seite 38 - ... who angered Hotspur by talking so like a waiting gentlewoman of guns, and drums, and wounds. He preferred the silken barons to the iron barons. His forte lay in chronicling the gossip of Courts, or in transporting his readers behind the scenes when a political intrigue was in progress. He was more of a Saint-Simon than a Bayard.
Seite 39 - It was stated to have been found 'a few years ago' 100 yards or so from the site of the castle of Cocklaw (map reference NT 523142); 'a few were Scotch coins of Alexander III and Bruce, but the great majority were English of Edward I and IF. The complete earthenware jug, which is 7-6 in. high and 6-5 in. in diameter, survives in Hawick Burgh Museum together with a few coins of the period ; they have been examined through the kindness of the curator, Mr. R. Scott, and I am also indebted to Mr. Peter...
Seite 12 - II., in 1365, granted to William of Gledstanes, the son and heir to William of Gledstanes, knight, deceased, the lands of...
Seite 38 - Before leaving this part of my subject, I may be permitted to...

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