Talk:Plenderleith

Grant to Walter of Selby

The account given seems a bit odd given the chronology of the Neville's Cross campaign. The first thing the Scots did against the English was to sieze (after 3 days) Liddel Strength (at the confluence of the Liddel Water and the Esk; they then executed Walter de Selby (unshriven) for having defended Liddel Strength with a garrison of 200 men for 3 days against the Scots Army (and doubtless other crimes against humanity). The Scots then marched via Lanercost Priory (plundered) and Hexham Abbey (plundered) to Bearpark, just outside Durham where they waited for the monks of Durham to pay a sufficiently large ransom that the Scots would not plunder Durham. A small English force hurried north and caught the unsuspecting Scots at Neville's Cross roughly a week after the fall of Liddel Strength(the Battle of Neville's Cross was 18 October 1346; the fall of Liddel Strength and the prompt murder of Sir Walter was c 10 October 1346): are we sure that a fief was reassigned from a Scots knight prisoner in England to a dead man ? Rjccumbria (talk) 19:21, 8 March 2013 (UTC)