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In Assassin's Creed III, fictional protagonist Connor Kenway visits Hutchinson's abandoned Edinburgh Castle, Jamaica in 1776 (three years after Hutchinson was hanged) in search of Joseph Palmer's piece of Captain Kidd's treasure map, which was implied to have ended up in Hutchinson's private museum.
The siege of St Andrews Castle (1546–1547) followed the killing of Cardinal David Beaton by a group of Protestants at St Andrews Castle. They remained in the castle and were besieged by the Governor of Scotland, Regent Arran. However, over 18 months the Scottish besieging forces made little impact, and the Castle finally surrendered to a ...
Ardverikie House is a 19th-century Scottish baronial house in Kinloch Laggan, Newtonmore, Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands. The house was made famous as the fictional Glenbogle estate in the BBC series Monarch of the Glen. [1]
Gilbert Kennedy of Bargany and Ardstinchar (c. 1577 – 1601) was a Scottish landowner and murder victim. Kennedy had inherited a long-standing family feud with John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis , on the death of his father, Thomas Kennedy of Bargany .
Maxwell Garvie was a Scottish farmer and businessman who was murdered in 1968, in "one of the most infamous murders in Scottish criminal history". [1] [2] [3] [4]The following year his wife, Sheila Garvie, and her lover, Brian Tevendale, were convicted of his murder after a sensational trial at the Aberdeen High Court, which included revelations about group sex and drugs. [5]
Between Iye Mackay, 4th of Strathnaver and the Sutherland family there was a feud that caused much blood-shed on either side. [1] According to Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet (1580 – 1656), who was a younger son of Alexander Gordon, 12th Earl of Sutherland, "the Earl of Sutherland had great controversy with the house and family of Mackay, chief of the Clan Vic-Morgan of Stathnaver, which did ...
Even when the study of Scottish history re-emerged in the 1950s, Leslie's writings continued to shape views of William's reign as disastrous for Scotland. The Massacre became one of several incidents used to illustrate this perspective, others including the Darien scheme, the famine of the late 1690s , and the 1707 Union .
Following a battle at Linlithgow Bridge at the end of April 1570, a state of civil war ensued in Scotland until the end of the "Lang siege" of Edinburgh Castle. [30] One of the finest remaining brasses in Scotland commemorates the murdered Earl of Moray, and is located in Saint Giles Kirk, Edinburgh. It carries the Moray arms and figures ...