Battle of Nesbit Moor (1402)

Battle of Nesbit Moor
Part of Anglo-Scottish Wars
Date 22 June 1402 Location Nesbit Moor 55°45′23″N 2°17′41″W / 55.75639°N 2.29472°W / 55.75639; -2.29472 Result English Victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Scotland	Kingdom of England
Commanders and leaders
Sir Patrick Hepburn † Sir John Haliburton Sir Robert Lauder	Earl of Dunbar & March
Strength
c. 400	c. 200
Casualties and losses
High	Low
class=notpageimage| Battle location in Scotland

The Battle of Nesbit Moor (or Nisbet Muir) was a small but significant clash between

The Scottish casualties at Nesbit Moor included the death of Sir Patrick Hepburn younger of Hailes; and the capture of Sir John Haliburton of Dirleton, Robert de Lawedre of Edrington, Sir John Cockburn, and Sir Thomas Haliburton. The date of Sir Robert Lawder's liberation does not appear to be on record but as there is a charter in The Great Seal of Scotland (number 934) confirmed at Falkland Palace in May 1411, which mentions him being "present", we might safely assume that he was freed before that date. Certainly on 15 June 1411 "Robertus Lawedyr, miles" has a safe-conduct from Henry IV.

References

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• Fordun
  's Scotichronicon, Vol 8, 1390–1430, edited by D.E.R. Watt, from the Latin manuscript authored by Bower in the 1440s. Edinburgh, The Mercat Press, 1987.
• Nisbet, Alexander, A System of Heraldry, speculative and practical: With the true art of blazon; according to the most approved heralds in Europe: Illustrated with suitable examples of the most considerable surnames and families in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1722.
• Sir James Balfour
  , Annals, volume 1.
• Fordun
  's Scotichronicon, Edinburgh, 1759.
• Cockburn-Hood, Thomas H., The House of Cockburn of that Ilk and Cadets Thereof, Edinburgh, 1888, page 43–4.
• Wylie, J. H., History of England under Henry the Fourth, reprinted from an 1884 London edition, New York, 1969, AMS, p. 290.
• Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, Edinburgh, 1905, pps:137/8, where it is stated that the Sir Patrick Hepburn of Hailes who died at this battle was "younger of Hailes", the son, not the father who survived him.