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Longniddry, East Lothian
Dirleton Castle
Dunbar Castle
Dunglass Castle
Duke of Somerset's Encampment
St Michal's Church, Inveresk
Prestongrange House, Prestonpans
Tyninghame House
Abbey of St Mary, Haddington
Greyfriars, Haddington
East Lothian aka Haddingtonshire is in Scotland.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. When the king had arrived at Kirkliston and had remained there for several days, it was reported to him that the Scots, who were garrisoned in the castle of Dirleton [Map] along with two neighbouring castles, which the king had previously bypassed, were conducting many raids and sometimes attacking the outskirts of their fortresses when foraging parties were sent out for straw. Immediately, he summoned the Bishop of Durham and sent him to lay siege to those places. When the bishop launched an assault on the castle of Dirleton, the defenders resisted bravely for several days and even killed a few of those attacking. But when their wooden siege engines failed and their provisions ran low, for they had nothing to eat except peas and beans which they were threshing in the fields, the bishop sent messengers to the king to ask for his will in the matter. The messenger was the very brave knight Sir John Marmaduke. To him the king said, "Return and tell the bishop that he is a man of piety, as befits a bishop, but this is not the time for works of mercy." Then, turning to the knight, he added with a smile, "You, on the other hand, are a cruel man, and I have often reproved you for your excessive cruelty, because you take delight in the deaths of your enemies. But now, go and unleash all your tyranny; I will not condemn but praise you for it. And take care not to show me your face again until those three castles are burned." To this the knight replied, "But how can I do this, my lord king, when it will be very difficult?" The king answered, "Go, and by doing it, you will do it, and give me your word that it will be done." Having given him his blessing, the king dismissed him. The knight returned to the bishop and relayed all these words to him. Meanwhile, the Lord visited them with favour, for three ships arrived bearing supplies. With their strength restored, they renewed their assault more vigorously than before. The garrison, astonished and overwhelmed, surrendered two days later, with their lives, limbs, and property spared. New soldiers were then sent to the other two castles so that they might win glory through fresh exploits. They found the castles abandoned and set them on fire. And thus, after capturing and burning those three castles, they returned to the king with joy and glory.
Cumque venisset rex apud Templehyston, et moratus ibi fuisset per dies aliquot, nunciatum est ei quod Scoti, qui erant in præsidio castri de Drilton cum duobus castellis finitimis, quæ quidem castella rex præterierat, multas agebant prædas, et extrema castrorum suorum, dum ad paleas mitterentur, cædebant aliquando. Statimque accito Dunolmensi episcopo, misit eum ibi ut ea obsideret. Qui cum insultum fecisset ad castrum de Drilton per dies aliquos resisterunt fortiter, et ex insilientibus paucos peremerunt, deficientibusque ligneis machinis et victualibus eo quod non habebant quod commederent nisi pisas et fabas quas excutiebant in campis, misit episcopus nuncios ad regem, qui voluntatem ejus expeterent. Et erat missus ille strenuissimus miles Johannes Marmeduk. Cui dixit rex, "Revertere," inquit, "et dic episcopo quod homo pietatis est in quantum episcopus, non tamen oportet in hoc facto opera pietatis exercere." Et applaudens militi ait, "Tu autem homo crudelis es, et præ nimia crudelitate tua aliquotiens redargui te, eo quod exultando gaudes in mortem inimicorum tuorum. Sed nunc quidem vade, et omnem tuam exerce tyrannidem, nec quidem vituperabo sed laudabo te. Et cave ne faciem meam videas quousque incendantur illa tria castra." Cui ille, "Et quomodo hoc faciam, domine mi rex, cum sit mihi valde difficile?" Et rex ad eum, "Vade," inquit, "quia faciens facies, et fidem mihi dabis quod hoc facies." Dataque benedictione, dimisit eum. Et ipse veniens ad episcopum nunciabat ei omnia verba hæc. Interim visitavit eos Dominus. Venerunt enim eis cum victualibus tres naves onustæ, unde reassumptis viribus acrius solito insultum fecerunt, ita quod attoniti castrenses dederunt se post biduum, salvis sibi bonis, vita et membris. Missisque novis militibus ad alia castra, ut suæ novitatis gloriam exercerent, invenerunt ea vacua, et igni succenderunt. Et sic captis et succensis illis tribus castellis, reversi sunt ad regem cum gaudio et gloria.
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Around 634 Saint Cuthbert was born in Dunbar [Map].
Collectanea by John Leland [1502-1552]. The IJd Day of the said Monneth [2nd August 1503] the sayd Qwene departed from the said Fast Castle nobly appoynted and acompayned. And at the Departynge, they schott much Ordonnounce, and had varey good Chere, and soe that every Man was content.
The said Qwene, acompayned as before, drew her Way toward Hadington. And in passyng before Donbare [Map], they fchott Ordonnaunce for the Luffe [love] of hyr. Shee was lodged for that sam Nyght in the Abbay of the Nonnes ny to Hadington [Map], and hyr Company at the said Place. Wher in lyk wys was ordonned Provysyon at the Gray Freres [Map], as well for the Company as for the Horsys, as on the Day before.
And thorough the Countre in sum Places war made by Force, Wayes for the Cariage and th grett Quantyte of People sembled for to se the said Qwene, bringing with them Plaunte of Drynke, for ychon that wold have of it, in paying therefore.
Tudor Tracts Chapter 3. That night [16th May 1544], they looked for us to have burnt the town of Dunbar [Map]; which we deferred till the morning, at the dislodging of our camp: which we executed by 500 of our hackbutters. being backed with 500 horsemen. And by reason that we took them in the morning — who, having watched all night for our coming, and perceiving our army to dislodge and depart, thought themselves safe of us, were newly gone to their beds: and in their first sleeps closed in with fire — the men, women and children were suffocated and burnt.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. At the same time [April 1296], while Earl Patrick1, commonly called the Count of la Marche, was loyally and powerfully fighting for our king, his wife, the countess, residing in her castle at Dunbar [Map], devised a plan, as it is said, of deceit and treachery. She sent messengers to the Scottish army, summoning them with all speed, and promising that she would surrender the castle upon their arrival. Her husband, meanwhile, was with our king and unaware of these dealings. The Scots sent three earls, four barons, thirty-one knights, and one hundred squires, and upon their arrival, they were let into the castle. The king's men stationed there were driven out, and some of them were killed.
Eodem tempore cum comes Patricius, qui vulgariter dicitur Counte de la Marche, potenter fideliterque regi nostro militaret, uxor ejus comitissa in castro suo de Dunbar manens, dolumque, ut dicitur, et fraudem excogitans, missis nunciis ad exercitum Scotorum, eos cum omni festinatione accersivit, promittens se in eorum adventu castrum reddituram. Erat enim vir suus cum rege nostro ignorans talia. Miseruntque Scoti tres comites, quatuor barones, XXXI milites, cum centum armigeris, et mox in eorum adventu introducti sunt, expulsis regiis et quibusdam eorum interfectis.
Note 1. Patrick (age 54), 8th Earl of Dunbar, sometimes known as Earl of March. Died 1308. He married, sometime before 1282, Marjorie, daughter of Alexander Comyn 2nd Earl Buchan and Elizabeth Quincy.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. On the following day [28th April 1296], when our king arrived, the defenders surrendered the castle [Map], placing their lives and limbs into the king's hands, as he refused to grant any terms or promise mercy by formal agreement. The names of those captured included: William, Earl of Ross, William [John] (age 30), Earl of Atholl, Alexander, Earl of Menteith, Barons: John, son of John Comyn, William de St. Clair, Richard Siward, John, son of Geoffrey de Mowbray Along with these nobles, thirty-one knights, one hundred squires, and two clerics, John de Somerville and William de St. Clair, were also captured. King Edward sent all of them, scattered in groups of twelve or sixteen, to various castles in England, to be held in secure custody. With the victory at Dunbar achieved, the hearts and plans of the Scots were broken, and almost all of them fled beyond the seas, except for those who remained in a few castle garrisons. From there, the king advanced to various towns and cities, and from that point on, the entire strength of Scotland was brought under his control with minimal resistance and little bloodshed. For, as the glory of their entire realm had been wiped away by the outcome of a single battle, no obstacle remained to prevent the most fortunate king from easily subduing the rest of the country.
Regi quidem nostro in crastino venienti reddiderunt castrum, ponentes in manu ipsius vitam et membra. Noluit enim rex ullam conditionem apponere, neque gratiam promittere ex pacto certam. Nomina eorum qui captivabantur erant ista: Willelmus comes de Rosse, Willelmus comes de Asthelle, Alexander comes de Meneteth. Item barones, Johannes filius Johannis Comyn, Willelmus de Sancto Claro, Ricardus Syward, Johannes filius Gaufridi de Moubrai. Cum istis etiam magnatibus inventi sunt et capti triginta unus milites, et armigeri centum, et duo clerici, scilicet Johannes de Somerville et Willelmus de Sancto Claro. Hos omnes misit dominus rex sparsim et divisim per XII vel XVI ad diversa castella in Anglia, sub firma custodia reservandos. Obtenta itaque victoria de Dunbar, dissoluta sunt corda et consilia Scotorum, fugeruntque quasi omnes ultra mare regni illius, exceptis illis qui in castrorum præsidiis remanebant. Exinde processit rex ad aliquas urbes et oppida, et extunc omne robur Scotiæ quasi minimo et incruento negotio in suam potestatem redegit et vicit. Namque quia universam eorum gloriam unius prœlii casus abraserat, in obtinendis residuis nulla se fortunatissimo principi difficultas opposuit.
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In 1479 John Colquhoun 9th of Colquhoun and 11th of Luss (age 89) was killed by a cannon ball during the siege of the Dunbar Castle [Map].
William Greystoke died at Dunbar Castle, Dunbar. He was buried at Dunbar Castle [Map] then reburied at Newminster Abbey, Northumberland [Map].
Diary of Edward VI. 30th April 1550. Dunglas [Map] was deliverid, as the treaty did require.
On 9th September 1547 Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 47) camped at Inveresk [Map] the night before the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh.
On 24th May 1616 John Maitland 1st Duke Lauderdale was born to John Maitland 1st Earl Lauderdale at Lethington.
In 1091 Alice Montford Sur Risle (age 41) died at Linesay.
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Tudor Tracts Chapter 4. We had marched that day a nine mile, and camped at night, by a town upon the Frith, called Lang Nuddrey [Longniddry] [Map].
Here we found a gentlewoman, some said a Lady, the wife of one Hugh Douglas. She was great with child, and, in a house of hers, there abode her good time of deliverance; and had with her, an ancient gentlewoman her mother, a midwife, and a daughter: whose estate, the council understanding, my Lord's Grace and my Lord Lieutenant took order, that all night, without danger or damage, she was well preserved. But soon after our departure in the morning, I heard that some of our northern prickers had visited her; not much for her profit, nor all for their honesty; that had they then been caught with their kindness, they should have been sure of thanks accordingly. Good people be they; but given much, as they say, to the spoil.
On 10th September 1547 an English army commanded by Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 47) defeated a Scottish army commanded by James Hamilton 2nd Earl Arran (age 31) and Archibald Douglas 6th Earl Angus (age 58) at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh at Musselburgh.
The English army included John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 43), Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury (age 47), Miles Partridge and Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth (age 22). John Thynne (age 32) and Edmund Brydges 2nd Baron Chandos (age 25) were knighted.
William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley (age 26) accompanied Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset.
Edward Shelley of Worminghurst Park (age 44) was killed.
John Forbes 6th Lord Forbes (age 82), Christopher Coningsby (age 31) and Edward Clere were killed.
John Thynne was knighted after the battle.
The Scottish army included John Gordon 11th Earl Sutherland (age 22) who commanded the Rearguard and Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis (age 32). John Stewart, Robert Douglas (age 41), John Livingston, Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield and Hugh Montgomerie were killed. John Hay 4th Lord Hay was captured but soon released.
Malcolm Fleming 3rd Lord Fleming (age 53) was killed. His son James (age 13) succeeded 4th Lord Fleming. Barbara Hamilton Lady Fleming by marriage Lord Fleming.
Robert Graham Master of Montrose was killed.
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On 6th December 1757 David Baird 1st Baronet was born to William Baird of Branxton Merchant at Newbyth House.
On 15th July 1445 Joan Beaufort Queen Consort Scotland (age 41) died at Dunbar Castle, Dunbar. She was buried at Perth Charterhouse.
Tudor Tracts Chapter 4. Wednesday the 7th of September [1547]. Marching this morning a two mile, we came to a fair river called Lyn [now catted Tyne] running all straight eastward to wards the sea. Over this river there is a stone bridge, that they name Linton Bridge, of a town thereby on our right hand, and eastward as we went, that stands on the same river.
Our horsemen and carriages passed through the water, for it was not very deep: our footmen over the bridge. The passage was very straight for an army; and therefore the longer in setting over.
Beyond this bridge, about a mile westward, for so methought, as then we turned, upon this same river, on the south side, stands a proper house and of some strength belike. They call it Hailes Castle. It pertaineth to the Earl Bothwell; but was kept, as then, by the Governor's appointment, who held the Earl in prison.
Above the south side of this castle lieth a long hill east and west, whereupon did appear, in divers plumps, about three hundred of their prickers: some making towards the passage to be in wait there to take up stragglers and cut off the tail of our host. My Lord's Grace and my Lord Lieutenant did stay awhile [over] against the castle, upon a hill over which we should pass; as well for the army, that was not all come, as also to see a skirmish that some of these prickers by coming over the river towards us, began to make, but did not maintain. Whereupon our Foreward marching softly afore1] his Grace then took his way after: at whom, out of the Castle there were roundly shot off, but without hurt, six or seven pieces; which before that (though some of our men had been very nigh) yet kept they all covert.
Tudor Tracts Chapter 4. Thursday the 8th of September [1547]. We had gone this day about a five mile, and camped, towards night, nigh a town they call Salt Preston by the Frith [Prestonpans] [Map]. Here one Charleton, a man, before time, banished out of England, and continuing all the while in Scotland, came in, and submitted himself to my Lord's Grace; who took him to mercy.
On 16th October 1909 Susan Harriet Innes-Kerr (age 71) died. Her funeral was held on 21st October 1909 at Prestonpans Parish Church. All Prestonpans shops and businesses were closed from midday as a mark of respect, with residents of the town lining the streets as her funeral cortege passed by. Her body was then conveyed on a special train service to Dunbar [Map] where she was buried. The pallbearers at Dunbar included her sons-in-law, Sir Neil Menzies (age 54), Bart-the second husband of her daughter Susan (age 50) and George Smith, her grandson Viscount Dalrymple (age 30), her nephew the Duke of Roxburghe (age 33), plus Lord Charles Innes Ker (age 66), Mr Robert Grant Suttie (age 67), Lord Montgomerie and Mr John Russel carried her coffin from the station to the churchyard. In 1911 a plaque to her memory was unveiled at Prestonpans Parish Church.
Around 1290 John 1st Seton was born to Alexander Seton (age 24) and Christian Cheney at Seton.
In 1327 John 1st Seton (age 37) died at Seton.
On 17th August 1434 John Seton 2nd Lord Seton (age 64) died at Seton. His grandson George (age 19) succeeded 3rd Lord Seton.
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On 31st August 1536 James Stewart 1st Earl of Moray Regent (age 5) received a royal charter granting the lands of Tantallon and others.
In 1380 George Douglas 1st Earl Angus was born to William Douglas 1st Earl Douglas (age 57) and Margaret Stewart 3rd Countess Angus and Mar at Tantallon Castle.
Before 18th May 1425 Murdoch Stewart 2nd Duke Albany (age 63) and his younger son Alexander Stewart were arrested and confined in St Andrew's Castle then moved to Caerlaverock Castle [Map]. His wife was arrested at the family's home of Doune Castle and imprisoned at Tantallon Castle.
Murdoch's son James "Fat aka Seamas Mòr" Stewart led the men of Lennox and Argyll in open rebellion against the crown. He attacked and burned the burgh of Dumbarton with much loss of life.
In 1449 Archibald "Bell the Cat" Douglas 5th Earl Angus was born to George Douglas 4th Earl Angus (age 22) and Isabella Sibbald Countess Angus at Tantallon Castle.
On 22nd January 1557 Archibald Douglas 6th Earl Angus (age 68) died at Tantallon Castle. His nephew David (age 42) succeeded 7th Earl Angus.
On 31st August 1669 John Hamilton 4th Earl Haddington (age 43) died in Tyninghame House [Map]. His son Charles (age 19) succeeded 5th Earl Haddington.
In May 1685 Charles Hamilton 5th Earl Haddington (age 35) died at Tyninghame House [Map]. His son Thomas (age 4) succeeded 6th Earl Haddington. His second son since his first son was to succeed to the Earldom of Rothes through his mother Margaret Leslie 8th Countess Rothes and Haddington.
On 25th June 1870 George Baillie-Hamilton 10th Earl of Haddington (age 68) died at Tyninghame House [Map].
On 19th April 1845 James Balfour (age 70) died at Whittingehame.
In 1243 Roger Giffard (age 89) died at Yester.
Around 13th August 1625 John Hay 1st Marquess Teviotdale was born to John Hay 1st Earl Tweeddale (age 32) and Jean Seton (age 19) at Yester.