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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| HOLLY TREE (Planted on the spot where King James II was killed 3rd Augt. 1460) | Holly Tree. (Planted on the Spot where King James II was killed (Aug: [August] 3d. 1460) | Robert Darling Esqr Broomlands. William Smith Esqr Writer. Revd [Reverend] James Jarvie Kelso. Mr James Bowhill Kelso. Ridpath's Border History. |
009.04 | After the English had held possession of the Castle of Roxburgh for more than a century, and the frequent attempts of the Scots to recover their fortress had been in vain, James II King of Scotland laid siege to it in 1460, well furnished with Artillery and other warlike machinery. He conducted the Earl of Huntley, who had arrived with troops to his assistance as a mark of friendship to the trenches, to see a discharge of his Artillery of which he was exceeding proud. One piece called "the lion" was remarkable for its enormous size, it was made of brass and cast in Flandres by order of King James I with the following inscription upon it: "Illustri Jacobi Scottorum, principe digno, Regi magnifico, dum fulmine castra reduco Factus sum sub eo, nuncuper ergo Leo" The King stood so near to one of them which burst in discharging, that a splinter of it struck him almost instantly dead. The Holly tree which stands about half way between Floors Castle and the Tweed, and is surrounded by a paling to protect it from injury, has been planted on the spot where this melancholy [Continued on page 26] |
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[Page] 25Parish of Kelso -- Sheet 9 No. 4 -- Trace 4.
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