Kirkpatrick of Closeburn: Memoir Respecting the Family of Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, in Nithsdale, with Notices of Some CollateralsPrivately printed, 1858 - 71 pages |
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Alexander Alisland ancestor Annandale appears arms Baliol banner barnekin Baronet Barons of Closeburn battle battle of Bannockburn brother Brus Caerlaveroc Capenoch Carliel Castle century Charles Charter Chieftain claim clan compelled Comyn Conheath contest Countess Court cousin Craigdarroch Crown dame daughter of Sir David death descended died domino Doña Maria Douglas Drumlanrig Duke of Queensbury Dumfries Dumfriesshire Earl Edinburgh Edward English feuds four sons Galloway granted honour Isabella James Kirkpatrick John Kirkpatrick Johnstone Kilosbern King Robert King's Kirk Kirkmichael Kirkpatrick of Closeburn Laird lands Lindsay Lochmaben Lord Maxwell Lord of Galloway Lord Torphichen Lord Wellesley mak sicker marriage married Montijo neighbouring night Nithsdale o'er prisoner Queensbury Robert Bruce Sanquhar Scotland Scots Scottish Border Sir James Sir John Sir Robert Sir Roger Kirkpatrick Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick Sir Walter Sir William succeeded his father Teba Thomas Charteris thou took Torthorwald tower Wallace William Kirkpatrick young
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Page 8 - Wha for Scotland's King and Law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa', Let him follow me! By Oppression's woes and pains, By your sons in servile chains, We will drain our dearest veins But they shall be free!
Page 38 - Jly sword, my spear, my shaggy shield, With these I till, with these I sow ; With these I reap my harvest field, The only wealth the Goda bestow.
Page 38 - ... after a time, render all course of slow, steady, progressive, unvaried occupation, and the prospect only of a limited mediocrity at the end of long labour, to the last degree tame, languid, and insipid.
Page 19 - Wi' curses and wi' blows, And high in air they did him hang, To feed the carrion crows. " To sweet Lincluden's1 haly cells Fou dowie I'll repair ; There Peace wi' gentle Patience dwells, Nae deadly feuds are there. " In tears I'll wither ilka charm, Like draps o' balefu' yew ; And wail the beauty that cou'd harm A knight sae brave and true.
Page 8 - Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has often led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to glorious victory. "Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front o' battle lour; See approach proud Edward's power — Edward!
Page 37 - Their morality was of a singular kind. The rapine, by which they subsisted, they accounted lawful and honourable. Ever liable to lose their whole substance, by an incursion of the English, on a sudden breach of truce, they cared little to waste their time in cultivating crops, to be reaped by their foes. Their cattle was, therefore, their chief property; and these were nightly exposed to the southern Borderers, as rapacious and active as themselves. Hence, robbery assumed the appearance of fair reprisal....
Page 36 - And at sunrising, two men and a woman being in the tower, one of the men rising in his shirt, and going to the tower head, and seeing nothing stir about, he called on the wench that lay in the tower, and bade her rise and open the tower door and call up them that lay beneath. She so doing and opening the iron door, and a wood door without...
Page 34 - And so we rode thither one night, and coming a little after sun-rising, they who saw us coming barred their gates and kept their dikes : for the town...
Page 36 - ... got hold of it that she could not get it close to; so the skirmish rose, and we over the barnekin and broke open the wood door, and she being troubled with the wood door left the iron door open, and so we entered and won...
Page 36 - ... her rise and open the tower door and call up them that lay beneath. She so doing, and opening the iron door, and a wood door without it, our men within the barnekin brake a little too soon to the door, for the wench perceiving them leaped back into the tower, and had gotten almost the wood door to, but one got hold of it that she could not get it close to, so the skirmish rose, and we over the barnekin and...