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    Hume Castle is the heavily modified remnants of a late 12th- or early 13th-century castle of enceinte held by the powerful Hume or Home family, Wardens...
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  • associated Hume Dam Hume Castle, the historic 13th-century eponymous fortress of the Hume/Home family in Berwickshire Hume, Scottish Borders, a village Hume MRT...
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    Clan Home (redirect from Clan Hume)
    Clan Home (pronounced and sometimes spelt Hume) is a Scottish clan. It held immense power for much of the Middle Ages and dominated the eastern Scottish...
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    Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British...
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  • Cockburn led the colourfully defiant but futile Scottish resistance at Hume Castle during the Third English Civil War (1649-1651), when a Parliamentary...
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  • derives from Hume Castle, Berwickshire, and its adjacent estates. The name may refer to: Abraham Hume (disambiguation) Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet (1703–1772)...
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    diplomat was threatened by swordsmen in Edinburgh and then detained at Hume Castle. In London, a French diplomat Nicholas d'Angennes, seigneur de Rambouillet...
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    Captain Frasers Folly (Uig Tower) Isle of Skye Dunmore Pineapple, Falkirk Hume Castle, Berwickshire Kinnoull Hill Tower, Perth McCaig's Tower, Oban, Argyll...
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  • has been known as Hume Cloister or Hume Castle. Its 30-year owners placed it on the market for $5 million in April 2016. Samuel Hume was the director of...
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    Home since 1611, and the principal seat following the destruction of Hume Castle during the mid-17th century. It was the home of the former British prime...
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    Earl of Home (redirect from Earl of Hume)
    United Kingdom. Various Earls of Home have also claimed the title of Lord Hume of Berwick. The Earl is also Chief of the Name and Arms of Home and heir...
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    Smailholm, Smailholm Tower, Floors Castle, Stichill, Lambden, Nenthorn, Ednam, Birgham and Gordon. Hume Castle Hume Crags List of places in the Scottish...
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    Mary of Guise (category People of Stirling Castle)
    when she went south to Hume Castle and sent an army towards England. Instructed to cross the border and attack Wark Castle, the Scottish lords held...
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    fort and help transport the remaining artillery to Hume Castle in June 1550. The Cranstouns sold Castle Hill on 27 January 1587 to Sir John Maitland (d....
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  • for messengers at the time of battle and a celebration afterwards at Hume Castle. The English lost 800 men killed (including Eure and Layton) and 1,000...
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    George Basil Hume OSB OM (born George Haliburton Hume; 2 March 1923 – 17 June 1999) was an English Catholic bishop. He was a monk and priest of the English...
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    Yett (category Castle architecture)
    yetts in Hume Castle. The iron itself cost £17-6s with £1 worth of coal. Records show that a yett constructed in 1568 for Kilravock Castle by a local...
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  • Castlemains, Douglas Hume Castle, Fast Castle, Berwickshire, Douglas Castle, Bothwell Castle Earl of Perth Stobhall, Perthshire Drummond Castle Earl of Abercorn...
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    Fife. Hawthornden Castle, Mid-Lothian. Hermitage Castle, Roxburghshire, 13th-century Douglas stronghold (restored ruin). Hume Castle, Berwickshire. ancient...
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  • while he lay sick at Edinburgh, Mariotta negotiated the surrender of Hume Castle on 22 September 1547. "Home, George (d.1547)" . Dictionary of National...
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  • Albany captured Hume Castle in September and ordered Home to meet him at Dunglass. There, Lord Home was arrested and taken to Edinburgh Castle. His jailer...
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    killed soon afterwards. In the 19th century, when the medieval well of Hume Castle was being cleared, the skeleton of a man with a chain round his waist...
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    ("Bear-Wych-Shire"). The black castle wall (specifically modelled after the walls of Hume Castle) along the bottom stands for the abundance of castles present throughout...
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    Redpath Reston St Abbs Swinton Westruther Whitsome Ayton Castle Burnmouth Cranshaws Eyemouth Hume Castle The Berwickshire News is published weekly, and numerous...
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    Eyemouth Fogo Foulden Galashiels Hawick Hermitage and Hermitage Castle Hilly Linn Hilton Hume Castle Hutton Jedburgh Kelso Kirk Yetholm & Town Yetholm Ladykirk...
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    cellar. The upper floors contain 12 bedrooms. The Hume family had settled at Humewood and built a castle there in the 15th century. The estate passed down...
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    by 30 "well furnished warlike" horsemen near Dunbar and detained at Hume Castle for 5 days. Elizabeth I complained to a French diplomat Michel de Castelnau...
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  • the flight of the eponymous Earl of Westmorland to Hume castle. After a brief period at Hume castle, Westmorland flees once more, before finding favour...
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  • Mariotta Haliburton was then compelled to negotiate the surrender of Hume Castle to the English. Alexander was then taken hostage to England, but returned...
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    Spynie Palace (redirect from Spynie Castle)
    Rough Wooing, including Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley who was taken at Hume Castle in December 1548. Christopher Rokeby, an agent provocateur of Elizabeth...
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