One of the most celebrated defences in Scottish history. Agnes Randolph — Countess of Dunbar and niece of Thomas Randolph — held Dunbar Castle for five months against the Earl of Salisbury. When English siege engines battered the walls, Agnes appeared with her ladies on the battlements theatrically dusting the stones with handkerchiefs. When an English prisoner was brought up to the walls as a bargaining chip, she refused to negotiate. Salisbury composed a verse about her: She kept a stir in tower and trench / That brawling, boasting, English wench.
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