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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site of AFFRAY between two Parties of Gypsies 1677 [Romanno Bridge] | Site of Contest between the Fawes and the Shawes Site of Contest between the Fawes and the Shawes |
Mr William Sanderson Damside Mr William Welsh Romanobridge |
008 | [Situation] Adjoining Dovecot about ¼ of a Mile E. [East] from Romanno Bridge This is where the contest took place between the two clans of Gipsies, the Fawes and the Shawes; It hapened on the first of October 1677, and to com comemorate the event Doctor Pennicuik errected a Dovecot on the spot where the fight took place, no remains of this Dovecot are to be seen now but the stone bearing the inscription (viz The field of Gipsie blood which here you see. A shelter for the harmless dove shall be) 1683 is still to be seen, it is placed above the Garden door at Romano. |
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[page] 16Parish of Newlands -- Sheet 8 No 2 -- Trace 4
[Note] -- Upon the first of October 1677, there happened at
Romanno, on the very spot where now the Dove-cot*
is built a memorable Polymachy betwixt two Clans
of Gipsies, the Fawes and Shawes; who had Come from
Haddington fair, and were going to Harestanes to meet
two other Clans of those rogues, the Baillies and Browns,
with a resolution to fight them. They fell out at Romanno amongst themselves,
about dividing the spoil they had got at Haddington And fought it manfully.
Of the Fawes there were four brethren And a brothers son; of the Shawes, the
father with three Sons; And Several women on both sides. Old Sandie Faw a
bold and proper fellow, with his wife, then with Child, were both Killed
dead upon the place; And his brother George, very dangerously wounded.
In February 1678 old Robin Shaw, the gipsie, And his three sons, were hanged
at the Grass Mercat for the above mentioned murder Committed at Romanno;
And John Faw was hanged the Wednesday following for another murder -
Sir Archibald Primrose was Justice General at the time; And Sir George McKenzie
King's Advocate." -- *Dovecot now removed -- Pennecuiks "Tweeddale" Page 179
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