![]() The damage to the document, now repaired, is caused by water rather than blood! In this instance the Collingwoods and Selbies engaged in a long correspondence defending their actions to Secretary Walsingham at London, and trading accusations of March treason (colluding with the Scots), but their accounts so involved and partial it is hard to know the true cause of the incident. Feuding was a common feature of the border community life, 'surnames' acting in mutual solidarity for their own protection and survival. The Clavering family appear to have been satisfied with monetary compensation in this instance, rather than pursuing a feud themselves. A memorial stone called Clavering's Cross still stands on the hill where this encounter took place. Despite, it was said, Collingwood's wife pleading on her knees that no violence be done, Claveringe was shot and his brother was also wounded. A retainer of the Collingwood family, Claveringe was a victim of that family's feud with the Selbies. Contemporary accounts relate that he had been one of a party ambushed on the hills above Stanton in Northumberland returning home from Newcastle where they had been celebrating the anniversary of the accession of Elizabeth I. ![]() ![]() Nuncupative will of William Claveringe of Duddoe, esquireĬlaveringe made his will in his last moments 'sore wounded in his bodie'. The probate registry contains an unusually high number of Berwick military wills in 1548-49, which probably reflect the Scots' siege of Haddington castle and its eventual evacuation in September 1549. This conflict originally sparked from the failure of Henry VIII's plan to unite the kingdoms of England and Scotland through the marriage of his son Edward to Mary Queen of Scots, then aged 5 and 6 months respectively: the pressure ultimately resulted in the betrothal and later marriage of Mary to François II of France. Shell's will contains a list of debts which reveal that he was owed his wages for campaigning in Scotland between June and September 1548, including monies owed to him for 'work of Dunglasse Hume Roxbrugh' - all fortifications either captured or repaired by the English during the 1544-1551 wars. Enemies Foreign and Domestic Will of Robert Shell of Berwick-upon-Tweed, gunner
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