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Page 193:-
The English commanded by Sir Thomas Wharton, being
posted upon the higher Ground, observed this Advantage, and
falling upon him put them to Flight, and took many Prisoners,
without any Blood, among whom were the Earl of Cassels and
Glencarn, the Lords Maxwel, Fleming, Sir Oliver
Sinclair, and many others. James V. King of
Scotland, was so much concern'd for the Loss of his Army,
which consisted of 15,000 Men, that he soon after died of Grief.
The Country beyond this Place was, before the Union of the two
Kingdoms, called Batable-Ground, i.e. Lands always in
Debate, the Inhabitants on both Sides always contending for it,
and yielding it to neither; but now all those Feuds and Quarrels
upon the Borders are ceased, and both Nations dwell in it with as
much Safety and Security as in any other Place.
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Whinfield Forest
stag hunt
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In Whinfield Park, at the Borders of this County, is shewn
a Hawthorn Tree, against which the Heads of a Stag and a Dog were
formerly nailed up in Memory of a famous Chace: It seems a Dog
(not a Greyhound, as Mr. Camden's Continuator calls it,
but a staunch Buckhound) singly chased a Stag from this Park, as
far as the Red Kirk in Scotland, which they say is
60 Miles at least, and back again to the same Place; where being
both spent, the Stag exerting his last Force, leaped the Park
Pales, and died on the Inside; the Hound attempting to leap after
him, had not Strength enough to get over, but fell back and died
on the Outside just opposite. The Heads of both were nailed upon
the Tree, and underneath this Distich on them:
Hercules kill'd Hart-a-Greese
And Hart-a-Greese kill'd Hercules.[1]
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Countess Pillar
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W. of the Hawthorn Tree, and upon the old Roman Way is the
famous Column, call'd the Countess's Pillar, the best and
most beautiful Piece of its Kind in Britain: It is a fine
Column of Free-stone, curiously wrought in Basse-Relieve,
and in some Places painted: It has an Obelisk on the Top, several
Coats of Arms, and other Ornaments in proper Places all over it,
with Dials also
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The Hounds Name was Hercules.
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gazetteer links
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-- "Countess's Pillar" -- Countess Pillar
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-- "Batable Ground" -- Debatable Ground
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-- Hart Horn Tree
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-- "Sollom Mosse" -- Battle of Solway Moss
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