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The action at Lanark was an attack at Lanark, Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence in May 1297. The Scotsman William Wallace led an uprising against the English and killed the Sheriff of Lanark, William Heselrig. The attack was not an isolated incident, but rather saw Wallace joining in with uprisings taking place across Scotland.
Alasdair James Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature.
After the action at Lanark, William Wallace joined forces with William Douglas the Hardy and led a raid on the city of Scone.He and his men forced William de Ormesby, the English-appointed Justice of Scotland, to flee, and took control.
Pages in category "Lanark" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. ... Action at Lanark; Lanark (Parliament of Scotland constituency)
Sir Thomas Grey (d. before March 1344) of Heaton Castle in the parish of Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland, was a soldier who served throughout the wars of Scottish Independence.
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His body was quartered and displayed on the roofs of the tolbooths at Lanark, Jedburgh, Ayr and Glasgow; a young boy, William Leechman, subsequently took down the remains from the Lanark Tolbooth and properly interred them. [8] [9] A separate, more secure, prison building was erected to the west of the tolbooth in 1714. [4]
New Lanark is a village on the River Clyde, approximately 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometres) from Lanark, in Lanarkshire, and some 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded in 1785 and opened in 1786 by David Dale , who built cotton mills and housing for the mill workers.