CharlesT wrote:CharlesT wrote:Tinto63 wrote:That's the one, Charles, a great name for a farm and still shown on Landranger 78 (NX770823). The CB that I mentioned above is Comely Bank, Edinburgh.
Over to you.
Thanks. Strangely I knew it was Carlyle and that he lived there, but couldn't recall the name.
Puttock is an old word for a bird of prey, for what that's worth.
Now,
MoU preceded
BC whose founder also established one of the oldest English academic institutions.
And fathered a somewhat ineffectual ruler.
Bit of a challenge, hmm..,
Pre-deceasing his wife, a lady of royal heritage and wealth, it was later left to her to fulfill his obligations to fund the eponymous college, an obligation arising from a dispute with the Bishop of Durham.
If that doesn't do it, I have a raft of other tid-bits to tease you with.
Come on you medievalists.