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Powerful clan in Lockerbie who killed Lord Maxwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Johnstone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dryfe_Sands
Rival of Clan Johnstone during most of the 16th Century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Moffat
Bonshaw tower, home to clan Irving (not built until 1570)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonshaw_Tower
Clan Kirkpatrick, rival to Clan Irving
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Kirkpatrick
Closeburn Castle, Castle belonging to the Kirckpatricks, north of Dumfries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closeburn_Castle
Torthorwald castle – another castle of the Kirckpatricks, East of Dumfries
Nice victory for the Scots here – 1484
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochmaben
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lochmaben_Fair
Point of rendezvous near the border, site of ancient cult of Mabon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochmaben_Stone
Good article here – swords of the borderers
https://fallingangelslosthighways.blogspot.com/2013/01/swords-of-borderers.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle#Curse_of_Carlisle
Curse of Carlisle
In local folklore, the Curse of Carlisle is a 16th-century curse that is said to have been invoked by Archbishop Dunbar of Glasgow in 1525 against cross-border families, known as the Border Reivers, who lived by stealing cattle and pillaging. For the millennium celebrations, the local council commissioned a 14-tonne granite artwork inscribed with all 1,069 words of the curse. Following the installation of the stone, Carlisle suffered floods, foot-and-mouth disease, job losses and a “goal famine” for the football team.[71] In response to this, the City Council considered removing the stone, however, Kevin Carlyon, the self-titled “high priest of the British white witches”, proclaimed that such actions would give the curse more power. He commented that: “A curse can only work if people believe in it. I think at the moment the sculpture is a nice piece of history, but if the council destroys it, they would be showing their belief in the curse.”[71]
“I curse their head and all the hairs of their head; I curse their face, their brain (innermost thoughts), their mouth, their nose, their tongue, their teeth, their forehead, their shoulders, their breast, their heart, their stomach, their back, their womb, their arms, their leggs, their hands, their feet, and every part of their body, from the top of their head to the soles of their feet, before and behind, within and without.”
“I curse them going and I curse them riding; I curse them standing and I curse them sitting; I curse them eating and I curse them drinking; I curse them rising, and I curse them lying; I curse them at home, I curse them away from home; I curse them within the house, I curse them outside of the house; I curse their wives, their children, and their servants who participate in their deeds. I (bring ill wishes upon) their crops, their cattle, their wool, their sheep, their horses, their swine, their geese, their hens, and all their livestock. I (bring ill wishes upon) their halls, their chambers, their kitchens, their stanchions, their barns, their cowsheds, their barnyards, their cabbage patches, their plows, their harrows, and the goods and houses that are necessary for their sustenance and welfare.”
“May all the malevolent wishes and curses ever known, since the beginning of the world, to this hour, light on them. May the malediction of God, that fell upon Lucifer and all his fellows, that cast them from the high Heaven to the deep hell, light upon them.”
“May the fire and the sword that stopped Adam from the gates of Paradise, stop them from the glory of Heaven, until they forebear, and make amends.”
“May the evil that fell upon cursed Cain, when he slew his brother Abel, needlessly, fall on them for the needless slaughter that they commit daily.”
“May the malediction that fell upon all the world, man and beast, and all that ever took life, when all were drowned by the flood of Noah, except Noah and his ark, fall upon them and drown them, man and beast, and make this realm free of them, for their wicked sins.”
“May the thunder and lightning which rained down upon Sodom and Gomorra and all the lands surrounding them, and burned them for their vile sins, rain down upon them and burn them for their open sins. May the evil and confusion that fell on the Gigantis for their opression and pride in building the Tower of Babylon, confound them and all their works, for their open callous disregard and opression.”
“May all the plagues that fell upon Pharoah and his people of Egypt, their lands, crops and cattle, fall upon them, their equipment, their places, their lands, their crops and livestock.”
“May the waters of the Tweed and other waters which they use, drown them, as the Red Sea drowned King Pharoah and the people of Egypt, preserving God’s people of Israel.”
“May the earth open, split and cleave, and swallow them straight to hell, as it swallowed cursed Dathan and Abiron, who disobeyed Moses and the command of God.”
“May the wild fire that reduced Thore and his followers to two-hundred-fifty in number, and others from 14,000 to 7,000 at anys, usurping against Moses and Aaron, servants of God, suddenly burn and consume them daily, for opposing the commands of God and Holy Church.”
“May the malediction that suddenly fell upon fair Absolom, riding through the wood against his father, King David, when the branches of a tree knocked him from his horse and hanged him by the hair, fall upon these untrue Scotsmen and hang them the same way, that all the world may see.”
“May the malediction that fell upon Nebuchadnezzar’s lieutenant, Olifernus, making war and savagery upon true christian men; the malediction that fell upon Judas, Pilate, Herod, and the Jews that crucified Our Lord; and all the plagues and troubles that fell on the city of Jerusalem therefore, and upon Simon Magus for his treachery, bloody Nero, Ditius Magcensius, Olibrius, Julianus Apostita and the rest of the cruel tyrants who slew and murdered Christ’s holy servants, fall upon them for their cruel tyranny and murder of Christian people.”
“And may all the vengeance that ever was taken since the world began, for open sins, and all the plagues and pestilence that ever fell on man or beast, fall on them for their openly evil ways, senseless slaughter and shedding of innocent blood.”
“I sever and part them from the church of God, and deliver them immediately to the devil of hell, as the Apostle Paul delivered Corinth. I bar the entrance of all places they come to, for divine service and ministration of the sacraments of holy church, except the sacrament of infant baptism, only; and I forbid all churchmen to hear their confession or to absolve them of their sins, until they are first humbled / subjugated by this curse.”
“I forbid all christian men or women to have any company with them, eating, drinking, speaking, praying, lying, going, standing, or in any other deed-doing, under the pain of deadly sin.”
“I discharge all bonds, acts, contracts, oaths, made to them by any persons, out of loyalty, kindness, or personal duty, so long as they sustain this cursing, by which no man will be bound to them, and this will be binding on all men.”
“I take from them, and cast down all the good deeds that ever they did, or shall do, until they rise from this cursing.”
“I declare them excluded from all matins, masses, evening prayers, funerals or other prayers, on book or bead (rosary); of all pigrimages and alms deeds done, or to be done in holy church or be christian people, while this curse is in effect.”
“And, finally, I condemn them perpetually to the deep pit of hell, there to remain with Lucifer and all his fellows, and their bodies to the gallows of Burrow moor, first to be hanged, then ripped and torn by dogs, swine, and other wild beasts, abominable to all the world. And their candle (light of their life) goes from your sight, as may their souls go from the face of God, and their good reputation from the world, until they forebear their open sins, aforesaid, and rise from this terrible cursing and make satisfaction and penance.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_Wooing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maxwell,_8th_Lord_Maxwell
This guy may have actually been the Scottish Warden in 1555
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas,_7th_of_Drumlanrig
This man was apparently the English Warden of the March in 1555
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dacre,_3rd_Baron_Dacre
This French noblewoman was effectively the queen and ruler of Scotland in 1555
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Guise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Armstrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Armstrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinmont_Willie_Armstrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilnockie_Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangerton_Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galloway_pony
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_law_(Anglo-Scottish_border)
Yes there is a character sheet in the Players Guide (pages 48 and 49) and you can download editable PDF versions of the same sheet here (with pre-generated characters for the Monsterberg adventure)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dEkBDyAkfTFiUtJKEV5ofEV5GFeIc1u6
We have a blank one on here too somewhere but I’ll have to find the link.
Thanks for sticking with us so long!
Another interesting cat. This guy is a Büschenmeister -a master of artillery (and firearms).
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Merz
Mainly known for making a well illustrated kriegsbüch (or variously Büchsenmeisterbuch, Feuerwerkbuch etc.) in the later 15th Century, (Codex Germ 599 – 1473) which is a guide to cannons, firearms, fireworks, pyrotechnics, and fortifications.
Son of a master of artithmetic, he apprenticed as a gun and bell founder and was soon hired as a Büchenmeister. He fought in several sieges and in the Mainz feud, and worked for the Emperor Frederick III. He made improved handgun designs with covered priming pans and match-locks, and is credited with improving (or inventing) gun carriages for various types of cannon. The wiki doesn’t explain how he lost one of his eyes. In his epitaph, shown above, he is praised for his fame “in the art of mathematica Buchssenschissen”
