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Isobell ane madin of twenty yeris of aige of vertew & of greit honour maist excelling undir the quene for that tyme". In modern terms, Isabella was "one of the most chivalric women of that age, the niece of King Robert and sister of Thomas Randolph, she was
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quhill that his life in erd may lest with hart & mynd constant, The rycht of
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Gilbert Hamilton, "for his trew service and greit manheid," and especially for having slain "for King Robertis pleasour the great lieutennand of Yngland upon Kynnale Muir. " Gilbert Hamilton had been with Robert Bruce at the
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a maiden aged 20 of virtue and great honour exceeded only by the Queen of Scots."
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