The Gledstones and the Siege of CoklawEdmonston, 1878 - 80 Seiten |
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The Gledstones and the Siege of Coklaw (Classic Reprint) Mrs. J. Rutherford Oliver Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Albany Arthurshiel Auldearn ballad barony of Manor battle battle of Auldearn belonged border Buccleuch Captaine Carter Fell Castle century charter of Robert Church of Cavers coins Covenant Covenanters daughter David II Douglas of Cavers Duke Edinburgh English army entries family Bible Flex Francis Gledstones gentlemen Gled Gledstone family Gledstone of Coklaw Gledstones of Whytlaw granted Hawick held Hillisland Hotspur Hundelshope James Gledstones Jedburgh John Gledstones John Trumble king knight Laird Lanarkshire lands Liberton Liddesdale Montrose name of Gledstones neighbourhood nobles Northumberland Origines Parochiales Ormiston Paterick pedigree Peeblesshire Percies perty possession prisoners raid Rewle Water Robert Fraser Robert III Roxburgh Roxburghshire Scotch Scotland Scots Sheriff of Teviotdale SIEGE OF COKLAW Sir John Urry Sir Ralph Neville Sir William Inglis slaughter of Thomas soldiers stanes summer lightning Thomas Peebles tion took tower town town-clerk Trumble Turnbull of Wauchope Walter Elliot Walter Scott warden William of Gledstanes
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 57 - 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 49 - And planted down palliones, 3 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 54 - ... 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 50 - 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.