On Saturday the Feast of St. Peter’s Chains (August 1st), there came a messenger from Sir Walter de Langestone, Bishop of Coventre and Lychfeld, and Treasurer to our Lord the King of England, bringing a letter from the said Bishop to the Mayor, and Alderman, and Barons, of London, in …
This poem, written in French, is thought to be authored by Walter of Exeter, a Franciscan friar. The story details the siege of the Scottish castle of Carlaverock in July 1300 by Edward I. The first portion of the poem gives a long list of heraldic banners and shields carried …
Keith Durham Border Reiver 1513-1603 Warrior 154. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2011. 64pp. $ 18.95/ 3 11.99/ CAN $ 22.00. ISBN 978-1-84908-193-1. From the end of the 13th century until the ascension to the English throne of James VI of Scotland in 1603 the Anglo-Scottish Borderland was a battleground for both …