The Regent Morton besieged Hamilton Castle in 1579 to break the power of the Hamilton family — the principal supporters of Mary Queen of Scots who continued to resist the King's government long after the fall of Edinburgh Castle. The castle fell after bombardment and the Hamiltons were temporarily crushed, their lands seized and their leaders exiled. The action was part of Morton's systematic suppression of the remaining Marian nobility.
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