Four Letters of Comforts for the Deaths of the Earle of Hadingtoun And of the Lo
Four Letters of Comforts for the Deaths of the Earle of Hadingtoun And of the Lo
Zacharie Boyd
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This nobleman had succeeded his father in 1637, and, attaching himself to the Covenanters, had been made colonel of one of their regiments. On the occasion of their marching into England under General Lesly, the Earl was left behind to garrison Dunglass Castle, near Cockburnspath, in which there was stored a considerable maga- zine of gunpowder. He was also under orders to watch the motions of the garrison of Berwick. On the 30th of August, how- ever, about mid-day, when the Earl was Introducti...oji. 9 standing in a court of the castle, surrounded by several gentlemen, to whom he was read- ing a letter he had just received from General Lesly, the magazine blew up, and in an instant, one of the side walls overwhelmed him and all his company, with the exception of four, who were thrown by the force of the explosion to a considerable distance. The body of the Earl was found among the rubbish, and was buried at Tyninghame. With the Earl there perished Robert Hamil- ton, his brother ; Patrick Hamilton, his natural brother ; Sir John Hamilton of Redhouse, his cousin-german ; Sir Alexander Hamilton of Innerwick ; and Alexander, his son and heir ; Sir Alexander Erskine, fourth son of the seventh Earl of Mar, brother-in-law ; Sir Gideon Banks of Lochend ; James Inglis of Ingliston ; and John Cooper of Gogar ; with about eighty persons of inferior rank.
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