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LIDDESDALE , the valley of Liddel See also:Water, See also:Roxburghshire, See also:Scotland, extending in a See also:south-See also:westerly direction from the vicinity of See also:Peel See also:Fell to the Esk, a distance of 21 M. The Waverley route of the See also:North See also:British railway runs down the See also:dale, and the Catrail, or Picts' Dyke, crosses its See also:head. At one See also:period the points of vantage on the See also:river and its affluents were. occupied with freebooters' peel-towers, but many of them have disappeared and the See also:remainder are in decay. Larriston See also:Tower belonged to the Elliots, Mangerton to the Armstrongs and See also:Park to " little Jock Elliot," the outlaw who nearly killed See also:Bothwell in an encounter in 1566. The See also:chief point of See also:interest in the valley, however, is Hermitage See also:Castle, a vast, massive H -shaped fortress of enormous strength, one of the See also:oldest baronial buildings in Scotland. It stands on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill overlooking Hermitage Water, a tributary of the Liddel. It was built in 1244 by See also:Nicholas de Soulis and was captured by the See also:English in See also:David II.'s reign. It was retaken by See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Douglas, who received a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of it from the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king. In 1492 See also:Archibald Douglas, 5th See also:earl of See also:Angus, exchanged it for Bothwell Castle on the See also:Clyde with See also:Patrick See also:Hepburn, 1st earl of Bothwell. It finally passed to the See also:duke of See also:Buccleuch, under whose care further ruin has been arrested. It was here that Sir See also:Alexander See also:Ramsay of See also:Dalhousie was starved to See also:death by Sir William Douglas in 1342, and that See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Hepburn, 4th earl of Bothwell, was visited by See also:Mary, See also:queen of Scots, after the See also:assault referred to.
To the See also:east of the castle is Ninestane Rig, a hill 943 ft. high, 4 M. See also:long and i m. broad, where it is said that William de Soulis, hated for oppression and See also:cruelty, was (in 1320) boiled by his own vassals in a See also:copper cauldron, which was supported on two of the nine stones which composed the " Druidical " circle that gave the See also:ridge its-name. Only five of the stones remain. James Telfer (1802–1862); the writer of See also:ballads, who was See also:born in the See also:parish of Southdean (pronounced Soudan), was for several years schoolmaster of Saughtree, near the head of the valley. The castle of the lairds of Liddesdale stood near the junction of Hermitage Water and the Liddel and around it See also:grew up the See also:village of See also:Castleton.
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