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Scott was walking in the High Street of
Edinburgh on 4 October 1552 when a band of Kerrs and their retainers attacked him. John Hume of Coldenknowes ran Scott through with his sword, "shouting to one of the Kerrs 'Strike! Ain strike for they father's sake!'", and when the wounded Scott was found to
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Cessford, an action that led to a bloody feud between the Kerrs and Scotts that would culminate 26 years later in Scott's murder. Scott was imprisoned in
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Fernihirst, widow of George Turnbull of Bedrule. They had no children. They were divorced, and she was still living in 1555.
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Buccleuch as Scott's grandson, but he was the grandson of Scott's son William of Kinkurd who died a few months before his father; see Paul, pp. 231–232.
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William Scott of Kincurd and father of Sir
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burned
Branxholme Tower, and Buccleuch retaliated by leading 3000 lances on a formidable raid into England. In 1535 he was accused of assisting the English Warden
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