RE: Intimidatin' Lindsay Clan...

I've just read this post for the first time and I'd like to point out an ERROR in the posting concerning Sir James (The Black) Douglas. The Black Douglas was indeed a bit of a nutter (just check out the Douglas Breakfast incident when he recaptured his own castle which had fallen to the English) but he did not die at Otterburn. He outlived Robert the Bruce and took the Bruce's embalmed heart to the crusades to "free" the Holy Land from the "infidels". Unfortunately he never made it further than Spain where he died in a fight on behalf of the King of Spain. The Bruce's heart and Douglas' bones were returned to Scotland and the heart was buried at Melrose Abbey.

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The man o' independent mind,
He looks and laughs at a' that.

Oops! Me and my big mouth... On returning home and checking a book or two, I find there was a Lord James Douglas killed at Otterburn some 100 years after the Black Douglas was doing his thing. I've no idea what relationship, if any, there was between the two men. Sorry for any confusion.

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The man o' independent mind,
He looks and laughs at a' that.

(...Gotta love you Neil! I hope that wasn't keeping you up too many nights...")


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Di (aka ^..^ ~ Willy)