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...Home! Home! Home!" cried the third Lord Home, trying to rally his Scots against the English soldiery by shouting the family name at Flodden Field in 1513. In the heat of battle, the clansmen misunderstood and-so the story goes-took off for home. Ever since, lest another such disaster befall, the family has pronounced the name "Hume...
...Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field...
Catherine won a decisive military victory against the Scots at Flodden, while Henry was uselessly and foolishly campaigning in France. Catherine, not the envoys of Ferdinand, was the real Spanish ambassador to her husband's court, until her loyalty to England and her father's duplicity turned her against the Spanish King. Her decision to stand against Henry's desire for an annulment of their marriage was one of the incidents that led to England's Protestant revolution...
Scrymgeour is pronoonced Skrimjer as it was when th' Heilanders defeated th' Sassan-ach at Bannockburn. aye an' at Prestonpans ferbye (an' if ye dare mention Flodden Field or Culloden, I'll slit yer throats wi' ma rusty Claymore an' feed yer misbegotten flesh tae th' Eagles...
...string of cowardly witnesses have given their lying testimony, with Attorney Griffin's masterly peroration which the jurors do not need to convince them that Hale is guilty. Aware of the circumstances of the trial, the Governor commutes Hale's sentence of death to life imprisonment, but Flodden's seething population has by this time long since made up its mind how the affair must end. The train taking Hale to prison stops beside a swamp and an angry crowd breaks into the baggage car where he is sitting with two detectives. Hale opens the door...