A local farmer named William Bunnock, who supplied hay to the English garrison at Linlithgow, hid armed men in a hay wagon. When the wagon was in the gateway he cut the traces, preventing the gate from closing. Hidden men leapt out and overpowered the guards; Scots hiding nearby rushed in. The peel was taken without a major assault. The technique — hiding men in supply wagons — became one of the celebrated folk memories of the Wars of Independence, recorded by Barbour in 'The Bruce.'
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