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PANWOODLEES Panwoodlees
Panwoodlees
Panwoodlees
David Arnot Cuthil
William McArthur Schoolmaster
Lamp of Lothian T [Trust]
008 [Situation] About 30 chains W.N.W. [West North West] from Dolphingston
A plain level field of ground and of arable surface on the farm of Dolphingston. General Fouke with a party of Gardeners, and Hamilton's Dragoons encamped on this field on the 16th of September 1745, a stragling horse happened to fall into one of a number of coal shafts then in the field, the noise thereby occeasioned such a panic to the party encamped, that without enquiry into its Cause they mounted their horses and fled by the Sands to Dunbar and thence to N. [North] Berwick Where they Joined General Sir John Cope then marching against the forces of the Pretender.

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