It was in “ Old Linlithgow's crowded town ” that the Regent Murray , the half - brother of Queen Mary , was murdered by Hamilton of Bothwell - haugh in 1570. The story , in its legendary form , has been told by Scott in his wild ballad ...
Author: William John Loftie
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ISBN: NYPL:33433069350241
Category: Scotland
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Tulloch Cas . , Ross F 3 Urr Loch & Water , Dumfries B 3 Waterstone , Linlithgow E 2 Tullochgorum , Inverness H 2 Urr , Old Bri . & W. of , Kirkcudbt . D 3 Wath Burn , Dumfries D 3 Tulloch Hill , Forfar C3 Ury Ho . , Kincardine G 3 ...
Author: John Bartholomew
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The Palace of Linlithgow Queen Anne was dead , as everybody know . was Margaret's own especial home . ... of the death of the King , and the night at the old Palace of his ancestors . slaughter of the flower of the land .
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... where the old roads to Glasgow ( now East Fountainbridge ) and Linlithgow ... Grindlays of Orchardfield ( extending as far s as the old Linlithgow Road ) ...
Author: John Gifford
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300096720
Category: Architecture
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The historic capital of Scotland is well known as a fortified medieval city with castle and crown-steepled church, its Royal Mile leading down to the Abey and Palace of Holyrood; as a merchant city of the Stuart period with Parliament House and closely built houses and tenements; as a Georgian town with the largest sequence of planned developments in Britain; as a Victorian town of churches and banks, hotels and pubs, of quiet surburbs; and as a twentieth-century city where the Festival and its Fringe have encouraged the rediscovery of old buildings and the planning of new ones. A comprehensive gazetteer is provided to all notable developments of central Edinburgh, the seaport town of Leith and the suburban neighbourhoods.'He is old, and you know you can't feed the old man,' Linlithgow had told Louis Fischer. 'He is like a dog and can empty his stomach at will .
Author: Alex von Tunzelmann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781471114762
Category: History
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The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime minister-to-be; Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple who had been dispatched to get Britain out of India without delay. Within hours of the midnight chimes, however, the two new nations of India and Pakistan would descend into anarchy and terror. INDIAN SUMMERdepicts the epic sweep of events that ripped apart the greatest empire the world has ever seen, and reveals the secrets of the most powerful players on the world stage: the Cold War conspiracies, the private deals, and the intense and clandestine love affair between the wife of the last viceroy and the first prime minister of free India. With wit, insight and a sharp eye for detail, Alex von Tunzelmann relates how a handful of people changed the world for ever.Lady Linlithgow, too, though very strong, was old. She was slow, or perhaps it might more properly be said she was stately in her movements.
Author: Anthony Trollope
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191620416
Category: Fiction
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'She liked lies...To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in a woman' Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Her determination to hold on to the Eustace family's diamond necklace in the face of legal harassment by her brother-in-law's solicitor entangles her in a series of crimes - apparent and real - and contrived love-affairs. Her cousin Frank, Tory MP and struggling barrister, loyally assists her, to the distress of his fiancée, Lucy Morris. A pompous Under-Secretary of State, an exploitative and acquisitive American and her unhappy niece, a shady radical peer, and a brutal aristocrat are only some of the characters in this, one of Trollope's most engaging novels: part sensation fiction, part detective story, part political satire, and part ironic romance. The Eustace Diamonds (1873) belongs to Trollope's Palliser series. Though often considered the least political of the six novels, it is a highly revealing study of Victorian Britain, its colonial activities in Ireland and India, its veneration of wealth, and its pervasive dishonesty. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Yet Stellenbosch's charming common , with its old churches , curious ... Since then , the town council of Britain's little ancient Linlithgow have been ...
Author: Steven Conn
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081223734X
Category: Architecture
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"Some anthologies seem slapdash or opportunistic; others are labors of love, informed by a mastery of a particular field and a passion for sharing the heterogeneous richness of their documents. "Building the Nation" is happily one of the latter. . . . Vastly useful."--"Preservation"51 OLD LINLITHGOW ( ASSASSINATION OF REGENT MORAY ) ; after a Picture by Sir WILLIAM ALLAN , P.R.S.A. . QUEEN MARY'S BED - CHAMBER , HOLYROOD ; after & Drawing by G. CATTERMOLE 38 BARNBOUGLE CASTLE ; after STANFIELD , from a Sketch by ...
Author: John Parker Lawson
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ISBN: ONB:+Z219693101
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The old Linlithgow boll contains nearly six bushels , and its value may be taken at 18s . 8d . , or about two - thirds the cost of an imperial quarter . Reckoning the price of an imperial pint of beer at 4d . , the proportion borne by ...
Author: David Beveridge
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ISBN: NYPL:33433069332801
Category: Birds
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Lady Linlithgow , too , though very strong , was old . She was slow , or perhaps it might more properly be said , she was stately in her movements . She was one of those old women who are undoubtealy old women , —who in the remembrance ...
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Lady Linlithgow , too , though very strong , was old . She was slow , or perhaps it might more properly be said , she was stately in her movements . She was one of those old women who are undoubtedly old women , —who in the remembrance ...
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Mary , however , had pushed forward with such unwonted speed to get into Edinburgh , that Bothwell , instead of surprising her , as he had calculated , in a lonely part of the old Linlithgow road , which then ran in almost a straight ...
Author: Agnes Strickland
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ISBN: UBBE:UBBE-00169513
Category: Queens
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As in the case of that celebrated purlieu , many of the houses of Linlithgow formerly belonged to the nobility attending the court ; and , as such , present a curious picture of the simplicity of former times , as well as a melancholy ...
Author: Thomas Cook
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