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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart (3)
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott Bart - 3 Author:Sir Walter Scott Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1822 Original Publisher: s.n. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can... more » select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: L 157 ] NOTES THE EVE OF SAINT JOHN. BATTLE OF ANCRAM MOOR. Lord Eversj and Sir Biian Latoun, during the year 1544 committed the most dreadful ravages upon the Scottish frontiers, compelling most of the inhabitants, and especially the men of Liddesdale, to take assurance under the King of England. Upon the 17th November, in that year, the sum total of their depredations stood thus, in the bloody ledger of Lord Evers. Towns, towers, barnekynes, paryshe churches, I instill houses, burned and destroyed . . 192 Scots slain 403 Prisoners taken 816 Nolt (cattle) 10,386 Shepe 12,492 Nags and geldings 1,296 Gayt 200 Bolls of cor n 850 Tnsight gear,« less