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| County of the Borough | } | William the Lion being unable | ||||
| and Town of | } Continued | to raise the money sufficient | ||||
| Berwick upon Tweed | } | to pay |
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| the Castle of Berwick fell | ||||||
| into the hands of Henry II who | ||||||
| pulled down the old Castle | ||||||
| and rebuilt it entirely new. | ||||||
| Berwick again becomes an English Town – King Robert I on going | ||||||
| to the Holy Land sold the vassalage of Scotland & the Castles of Roxburgh | ||||||
| and Berwick to Scotland, for 10,000 marks. Berwick again becomes | ||||||
| a Scotch Town. King John took Berwick. Slaughtered men | ||||||
| women & children & burnt it. | ||||||
| On the 2nd of August 1291, the states of England & Scotland with | ||||||
| Edward I, assembled in Berwick, in order to try or determine | ||||||
| the claims of "Robert Bruce", & "John Baliol". | ||||||
| In 1296, Edward I took Berwick by storm – the Castle surrended | ||||||
| and its garrison of 2000 men. Many writers mention the slaughter | ||||||
| of the inhabitants as tremendous; 7000 were butchered according | ||||||
| Fordun; 8000 by another writer; & Mathew of Westminster | ||||||
| does not scruple to assert that the numbre slaughtered exceeded | ||||||
| 60000; Berwick again becomes an English Town. | ||||||
Note: Unsigned
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Transcribed by PT and PF
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