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Huntley (George Gordon, 1st marquess of Huntley, 1562-1626) burns the Earl's castle
of Dunibrissel in Fife & later that day fatally stabs James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray and
Lord Doune 2/7/1592
Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands,
Oh where have you been?
They have slain the Earl of Murray,
And Lady Mondegreen.
Child #181 (1st printed 1733)
(Note by Dick Gaughan : this last line as given here
was Abby being provocative - see the note to this song
on Five Hand Reel's Earl o Moray)
Child #181 (1st printed 1733)
(Per Peter Buchan: James VI, being jealous of an attachment betwixt his Queen, Anne of
Denmark, and the Earl of Murray, the handsomest man of his time, prevailed with the deceitful
Marquis of Huntly, his enemy, to murder him; and by a writing under his own hand, promised to
save him harmless. He was killed at his castle of Dunibrissel.)
Note: The Happy research division has just begun reading the staggering convolutedness of
this in Edward Ives' The Bonny Earl of Murray. We hope to be up to speed on the facts in a
year or two. His best guess is that Jim was born 1567. He became Earl of Murray by marriage
in January 1581 [age 14].
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