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Thomas de Semple, of Longniddry
Facts and Events
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Thomas de Semple, of Longniddry |
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Thomas Sympil |
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Male |
Thomas de Sempill (Archer in the King's Army)
- Archaeological and Historical Collections, Vol. 1, Page 36
- Charter by Robert the Bruce King of Scots, to Thomas called Sympil, for his homage and service, of the half of the land which Nicholas de Dispensa, the King’s enemy and rebel, had by royal infeftment, heritably, in the town and tenement of Langnidry, and which the said Nicholas forfeited to his Majesty. To hold to the said Thomas and his heirs, of the Crown, in fee and heritage, with all pertinents, rights and privileges thereto belonging; rendering therefore the half service of one archer in the King’s army. [Circa, 1320.]
- Nicholas de Dispensa (nee Nicholas le Dispenser, see Despenser War). A kinsman of Hugh Despenser, 1st Lord Despenser.
- Archer in the King's Army (Battle Service)
- 23 June 1314 - A skirmish line of Ettrick Archers now lined the New Park, and within it the Sheltron had moved a few yards from the road to better ground. Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray (for Scotland) and some of his men moved forward with the short bow Ettrick Archers, the main body staying by St. Ninians. Edward Bruce (for Scotland) advanced eastward from the road, his brother Robert the Bruce (for Scotland) was facing south across the pot holes and the burn. The people of the nearby villages and much of Scotland had come to see the battle, and Bruce moved them (they also became known as camp followers), to the woods behind Coxet Hill in the heart of the New Park, safely behind the Steward's Sheltron and the Gillies (Highlanders) secret reserve on Coxet Hill, and the main Highland reserve on Gillies Hill. Douglas and Robert II Keith, Marischal of Scotland returned from a reconnoiter of the advancing English army around noon. They had gone south through the Torwood, Douglas leading the way quietly, stealthily through the forest. What they saw startled them. A great column of horse and foot, two miles long and approaching on either side of the old Falkirk road.
- Edward II of England has come to battle.
- One of Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray's vanguard tactics that day was to employ a Circular Sheltron. Ettrick Archers in-between them.
- On the morrow-an evil, miserable and calamitous day for the English-when both sides had made themselves ready for battle, the English archers were thrown forward before the line, and the Scottish archers engaged them, a few being killed and wounded on either side; but the King of England’s archers quickly put the others to flight.
- The Scots Peerage, Vol. 7, Page 526
- Thomas de Sempill, to whom King Robert I. granted a charter 'Thomae dicto Sympil,' for homage and service, of half of the lands and pertinents in the town and tenement of Longnodryf (ie. Longniddry), which had belonged to Nicholas de Dispensa, a rebel, and had be forfeited.
References
- Paul, James Balfour. The Scots peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's ‘Peerage of Scotland’ containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, with armorial illustrations. (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914)
Vol. 7. Page 526.
Thomas de Sempill, to whom King Rober I. granted a charter ‘Thomae dicto Sympil,’ for homage and service, of half of the lands and pertinents in the town and tenement of Longnodryf (Longniddry), which had belonged to Nicholas de Dispensa, a rebel, and had be forfeited.
- Archaeological and historical collections relating to the county of Renfrew, parish of Lochwinnoch. (Paisley: A. Gardner, 1885-1890)
Vol. 1. Page 36.
Charter by Robert the Bruce King of Scots, to Thomas called Sympil, for his homage and service, of the half of the land which Nicholas de Dispensa, the King’s enemy and rebel, had by royal infeftment, heritably, in the town and tenement of Langnidry, and which the said Nicholas forfeited to his Majesty. To hold to the said Thomas and his heirs, of the Crown, in fee and heritage, with all pertinents, rights and privileges thereto belonging; rendering therefore the half service of one archer in the King’s army. [Circa, 1320.]
- Maxwell, Herbert. The Chronicle of Lanercost: 1272-1346. (Glasgow: James Maclehose And Sons, 1913)
Page 207.
On the morrow-an evil, miserable and calamitous day for the English-when both sides had made themselves ready for battle, the English archers were thrown forward before the line, and the Scottish archers engaged them, a few being killed and wounded on either side; but the King of England’s archers quickly put the others to flight.
- Lang, Andrew , in Battle Of Bannockburn.
Of stout spearmen and fleet-footed clansmen Bruce had abundance; but what were his
archers to the archers of England, or his five hundred horse under Keith the
mareschal, to the rival knights of England, Hainault, Guienne, and Almayne?
This must have been the crisis of the fight, according to Barbour, and Bruce bade Keith with his five hundred horse charge the English archers on the flank. The bowmen do not seem to have been defended by pikes; they fell beneath the lances of the mareschal, as the archers of Ettrick had fallen at Falkirk. The Scottish archers now took heart, and loosed into the crowded and reeling ranks of England, while the flying bowmen of the south clashed against and confused the English charge. Then Scottish archers took to their steel sparths - who ever loved to come to hand strokes - and hewed into the mass of the English, so that the field, whither Bruce brought up his reserves to support Edward Bruce on the right, was a mass of wild, confused fighting.
http://history-world.org/battle_of_bannockburn.htm
- Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family
Progenitors of the Sempill Family
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