“As she rode forward,” said Randolph to Cecil, “divers reports were brought to her: some told her, that she would be attacked as she passed the river others said, that she would be assailed from the woods, which skirted the road, within a short distance of the river: and, it was said by others,” continued he, “that there were, in that wood, the night before, a thousand men not one was found, when proper persons were sent to discover them. The Queen was now, in this stage, to repass the Spey, at Fochabers, on her way to Cullen and thus she had to travel through the very country of the Gordons: on the morning of her departure, she had with her, according to Randolph, 2000 men, “of those they call highland men,” and the countrymen joining her, as she travelled forwards: so that as she approached the ford of the Spey, her force amounted, in Randolph’s estimate, to 3000 man. įrom this episcopal palace of ancient note, the Queen and her suite, departed, on the 19th of September, in her progress, southward. Hot wars this year between King Henry, of England, and the Duke of York, which moved King Henry to beg peace on any terms by his ambassadors so that a peace was concluded, and the articles sworn and signed by the King, at Edinburgh, the 19th day of September. 2 Along with his tilting arms, he bequeaths unum rethe quod fuit in bombicinio meo, – perhaps the silk dress worn over arms in the tilt-yard. A much older Scotch will, that of Saint Gilbert de Moravia, Bishop of Caithness, is said to have been extant in 1636 but it is now unhappily lost. 1 These had been previously printed in the second volume of the Banantyne Miscellany. His best ring with a sapphire, which was his lady mother’s, and which she gave him with her blessing, he left to his heir with his cordial blessing. He left to James his son and heir, helmet and full arms for tilting, 2 and his best jack and tusches, with his second-best horse – an owche with a ruby in the middle, a ring de columna Christi, and a cross made of the true cross – super quam pendebat Jesus – a relic of the hair of Mary Magdalene enclosed in silver, a circlet of gold, and a great counterfilet of gold, a silver basin with a cover, weighing £18, 2s. He gave the half of all his free goods for his funeral, and for masses and alms for the weal of his soul also his best horse and his arms as a funeral offering to the vicar of Lasswade. He appointed Archibald Earl of Douglas, and Sir Henry of Douglas, his uncle, to be guardians of his heir. 1 Commending his soul to God, and the blessed Virgin, and all saints, he gave his body to be buried in the Monastery of Newbattle, beside his first wife Agnes. Undoubtedly the most interesting documents among the Morton papers are the two wills of Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith, 30th September 1390, and 19th September 1392 – the oldest wills of any Scotchman known to be extant. John Niddry held lands in Cramond and also Pentland Muir. Henry Niddry is mentioned in connection with Niddry-Marshal, and Walter, son of Augustine, burgess of Edynbourgh, has the lands of Niddry in that county, quam Johannes de Bennachtyne de le Corrokys resignavit, 19 th sept. In widening the wynd into a street, there was swept away Dalgleish’s Close, which is referred to in the “Diurnal of Occurents” in 1572, and which occupied the site of the present east side of Niddry Street.įrom whom this old thoroughfare took its name we know not but it is an old one in Lothian, and, with various adjuncts, designates several places near the city. Philip opened an educational establishment in the wynd in that year. We first hear of a “Teacher of English” in 1750, when a Mr. Nichol, author of The Architecture of the Heavens, &c., 1859, Rothesay. of France, 1551, Fontainebleau Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, 1779, Edinburgh. Saints Peleus, Pa-Termuthes, and companions, martyrs, beginning of 4th century. St Januarius, bishop of Benevento, and his companions, martyrs, 305.
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