The English peel-tower at Linlithgow controlling the road between Edinburgh and Stirling was captured in September 1313 by a local farmer named Binnock who concealed armed men in a hay-cart and prevented the gates from closing when the cart was pulled under the portcullis at delivery time. The ruse was pre-planned with William Bunnock acting as the cart driver. The Linlithgow recovery removed a key English outpost on the central road and contributed to the progressive isolation of Stirling Castle before Bannockburn.
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