Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 619978

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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John, Earl of Caithness, pretending some right to Orkney,

came over with troops to seize it, landed at Houton, and proceded

to Summersdale in Stenness, where they were beat back by the Orkney

and Shetland people into a place called Moss of Bigswald, where

the Earl and most of the people were killed, and the rest taken

prisoners

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]