Regent Morton's systematic destruction of the Hamilton family's power base included not just Hamilton Castle but the wider suppression of Hamilton affinity throughout Lanarkshire and the west. In 1579 government forces garrisoned Hamilton's market town, seized Hamilton rents, and imprisoned or exiled key members of the Hamilton network. The Morton campaign against the Hamiltons was the last major operation against a Marian family and completed the post-civil war settlement that had begun with the fall of Edinburgh Castle in 1573.
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