It was besieged by Wallace in 1298, by Bruce in 1315-the year after bannockburn, and again in 1322. Queen Mary's captivity at Carlisle in 1568; Buccleuch's daring and gallant rescue of Kinmont Willie in 1596, immortalised in the best of the Border ballads; the protracted siege by General Leslie in 1644 during the Parliamentary War; and the Pretender's short-lived triumph-these are the rest of its leading events.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
106, 107; expelled, 189 bannockburn, battle of, ii.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
173, 174; character and policy, 184-186; marriage, 186; relations with Gaveston and the barons, 186-188; struggle with the Ordainers, 188-191; marches on Scotland, 191; defeated at bannockburn, 192, 193; accepts the Ordinances, 194; campaign of 1319, ib.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green