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" there to put all to fire and sword, to burn Edinburgh town, and to raze and deface it, when you have sacked it, and gotten what you can out of it, as that it may remain for ever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lighted upon it for their falsehood... "
Lives of the queens of Scotland and English princesses connected with the ... - Page 67
by Agnes Strickland - 1851
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History of Scotland, Volume 5

Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1834 - 516 pages
...delayed for a season, they command him, in the mean time, to make an inroad into Scotland, " there to put all to fire and sword, to burn Edinburgh town, and to raze and deface it, when you have sacked it, and gotten what you can out of it, as that it may remain for ever a perpetual memory...
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History of Scotland, Volume 5

Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1834 - 506 pages
...delayed for a season, they command him, in the mean time, to make an inroad into Scotland, " there to put all to fire and sword, to burn Edinburgh town, and to raze and deface it, when you have sacked it, and gotten what you can out of it, as that it may remain for ever a perpetual memory...
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History of Scotland, Volume 5

Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1834 - 506 pages
...delayed for a season, they command him, in the mean time, to make an inroad into Scotland, " there to put all to fire and sword, to burn Edinburgh town, and to raze and deface it, when you have sacked it, and gotten what you can out of it, as that it may remain for ever a perpetual memory...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Tales of a grandfather

Walter Scott - France - 1836 - 434 pages
...delayed for a season, they command him, in the mean time, to make an inroad into Scotland, ' there to put all to fire and sword, to burn Edinburgh town, and to raze and deface it, when you have sacked it, and gotten what you can out of it, as that it may remain for ever a perpetual memory...
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Tales of a Grandfather, Volume 23

Walter Scott - Scotland - 1836 - 442 pages
...delayed for a season, they command him, in the mean time, to make an inroad into Scotland, - there to put all to fire and sword, to burn Edinburgh town, and to raze and deface it, when you have sacked it, and gotten what you can out of it, as that it may remain for ever a perpetual memory...
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The History of St. Andrews: Ancient and Modern

Charles Jobson Lyon - St. Andrews (Scotland) - 1838 - 268 pages
...archiepiscopal city in particular. The earl is directed to enter Scotland with an army, and " there to put all to fire and sword, to burn Edinburgh town, and raze the castle, putting man, woman, and child to fire and sword, where any resistance shall be made...
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A sketch of the the life of the rev. John Brown, sometime minister ... in ...

Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...delayed for a season, they command him in the meantime to make an inroad into Scotland — " there to put all to fire and sword, to burn Edinburgh town, and to raze and deface it ; when you have sacked it, and gotten what you can out of it, as that it may remain for ever a perpetual memory...
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The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People, as Well as ...

George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1839 - 932 pages
...Here is pnrt of the inferual commission given by the king to the Earl of Hertford: — " You are there to put all to fire and sword; to burn Edinburgh town, and to raze and deface it, when you have sacked it, and gotieu what yon cau out of it, as that it may remain for ever u memory of the...
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History of Scotland [1149-1603], Volume 5

Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1841 - 418 pages
...was delayed for a season, they command him, in the meantime, to make an inroad into Scotland, " there to put all to fire and sword, to burn Edinburgh town, and to raze and deface it, when you have sacked it, and gotten what you can out of it, as that it may remain for ever a perpetual memory...
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Annals of the English Bible, Volume 2

Christopher Anderson - Bible - 1845 - 766 pages
...commission then given to him by the King, of which previous historians were not aware. « You are there to put all to fire and sword ; to burn Edinburgh town, and to raze and deface it, when you have sacked it, and gotten what you can out of it ; as that it may remain for ever, a memory of...
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