This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...a weak state until the Battle of Oldmeldrum, fought on 22d May, 1308, when Comyn was defeated with great slaughter. After the slaughter of Lord Spynie by his kinsman, young EJzell, and Lindsay of Canterland, on the High Street of Edinburgh, on 5th July, 1607, Edzell fled from justice and took up his residence ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...a weak state until the Battle of Oldmeldrum, fought on 22d May, 1308, when Comyn was defeated with great slaughter. After the slaughter of Lord Spynie by his kinsman, young EJzell, and Lindsay of Canterland, on the High Street of Edinburgh, on 5th July, 1607, Edzell fled from justice and took up his residence at the Castle of Auchmull, then at Invermark Castle, and afterwards at a small fortalice which he had erected on the right bank of the North Esk, between these two castles. His father, Lord Edzell, was prohibited from sheltering his son, under heavy penalties, and the Earl of Crawford so harassed him anent the murder of Spynie, by wounding his servants and himself, that he applied to the King to be taken on trial for the murder. The trial was fixed for 6th September, 1607, but none of the accusers appeared, and the matter lay dormant for a long time. The heartless feeling which existed among the lightsome Lindsays after the slaughter of Lord Spynie will be seen by the following episode: --While young Edzell was lurking among the mountains at the top of the glen, he was one day surprised and nearly captured by his relative, the Earl of Crawford, and a band of his retainers, who had come in search of him. On seeing them he fled with the speed of a red deer, and, being agile and not encumbered with arms, he bounded over a wild rock or chasm of the Mark, landed safely on the opposite side, and got within Invermark Castle, its drawbridge up, and its iron yett shut before his pursuers could overtake him. Once inside the fortalice, he was safe from such foes. Some of his enemies, in their haste to capture the fugitive, are said to have assayed the leap, come short of it, been dashed against the precipitous rock and killed, or drowned in the deep..
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