2012, ISBN: 1236045165

[EAN: 9781236045164], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781236045164], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. 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. 1873 Excerpt: .was issued for a raid, or assemblage of the feudal force, for an attack upon the border marauders. The array was called upon to meet the queen and her dearest spouse --the force of the midland counties on the 15th of June, that of the border on six hours warning.1 It was said at the time See the proclamations in Keith, 395. that the intention was to use the army when assembled for other purposes. However this may be, instead of the usual clanging and bustling preliminaries of such a gathering, there was an ominous silence; and whatever was doing among the barons and their retainers, they were not flocking to the border. Those who were absent from Court stayed at home; those who had remained in Edinburgh slipped gradually away. Among them was Lethington, who said his life was in danger. It was as with Macbeth when he said, The thanes fly from me. Frightened by this silence, and probably by other hints, on the 6th or 7th of June the queen and her husband suddenly left Holyrood, and shut themselves up in Borthwick Castle, twelve miles from Edinburgh. Edinburgh Castle would have been the natural place of retreat; but that, for reasons to be presently mentioned, was not available. They were scarcely safe in Borthwick when the Lords Morton and Hume suddenly appeared with a hostile following of some six or eight hundred men--these were part of a larger force which had crept from various districts towards Edinburgh, expecting to seize the queen and her husband in Holyrood Borthwick, a thick-walled square tower like the old Norman keeps in England, was strong for a private fortalice, but could not stand artillery, as Cromwell afterwards showed by the results of a round or two. It could not accommodate a sufficient garrison to cop.<

2012, ISBN: 1236045165

[EAN: 9781236045164], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing … Mehr…

[EAN: 9781236045164], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.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. 1873 Excerpt: .was issued for a raid, or assemblage of the feudal force, for an attack upon the border marauders. The array was called upon to meet the queen and her dearest spouse --the force of the midland counties on the 15th of June, that of the border on six hours warning.1 It was said at the time See the proclamations in Keith, 395. that the intention was to use the army when assembled for other purposes. However this may be, instead of the usual clanging and bustling preliminaries of such a gathering, there was an ominous silence; and whatever was doing among the barons and their retainers, they were not flocking to the border. Those who were absent from Court stayed at home; those who had remained in Edinburgh slipped gradually away. Among them was Lethington, who said his life was in danger. It was as with Macbeth when he said, The thanes fly from me. Frightened by this silence, and probably by other hints, on the 6th or 7th of June the queen and her husband suddenly left Holyrood, and shut themselves up in Borthwick Castle, twelve miles from Edinburgh. Edinburgh Castle would have been the natural place of retreat; but that, for reasons to be presently mentioned, was not available. They were scarcely safe in Borthwick when the Lords Morton and Hume suddenly appeared with a hostile following of some six or eight hundred men--these were part of a larger force which had crept from various districts towards Edinburgh, expecting to seize the queen and her husband in Holyrood Borthwick, a thick-walled square tower like the old Norman keeps in England, was strong for a private fortalice, but could not stand artillery, as Cromwell afterwards showed by the results of a round or two. It could not accommodate a sufficient garrison to cop.<

ISBN: 1236045165

[EAN: 9781236045164], Neubuch, JOHN HILL BURTON,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scann… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781236045164], Neubuch, JOHN HILL BURTON,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. 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. 1873 Excerpt: . . . was issued for a raid, or assemblage of the feudal force, for an attack upon the border marauders. The array was called upon to meet the queen and her dearest spouse --the force of the midland counties on the 15th of June, that of the border on six hours warning. 1 It was said at the time See the proclamations in Keith, 395. that the intention was to use the army when assembled for other purposes. However this may be, instead of the usual clanging and bustling preliminaries of such a gathering, there was an ominous silence; and whatever was doing among the barons and their retainers, they were not flocking to the border. Those who were absent from Court stayed at home; those who had remained in Edinburgh slipped gradually away. Among them was Lethington, who said his life was in danger. It was as with Macbeth when he said, The thanes fly from me. Frightened by this silence, and probably by other hints, on the 6th or 7th of June the queen and her husband suddenly left Holyrood, and shut themselves up in Borthwick Castle, twelve miles from Edinburgh. Edinburgh Castle would have been the natural place of retreat; but that, for reasons to be presently mentioned, was not available. They were scarcely safe in Borthwick when the Lords Morton and Hume suddenly appeared with a hostile following of some six or eight hundred men--these were part of a larger force which had crept from various districts towards Edinburgh, expecting to seize the queen and her husband in Holyrood Borthwick, a thick-walled square tower like the old Norman keeps in England, was strong for a private fortalice, but could not stand artillery, as Cromwell afterwards showed by the results of a round or two. It could not accommodate a sufficient garrison to cop. . .<