Tam Dalyell of the Binns
General Thomas Dalyell | |
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Battles/wars | Huguenot rebellions Russo–Polish War (1654–67) Scottish Covenanter Wars |
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Sir Thomas Dalyell of The Binns, 1st Baronet (1615–1685) was a
Life
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Dalyell was born in Linlithgowshire, the son of Thomas Dalyell of The Binns, head of a cadet branch of the family of the Earls of Carnwath, and of Janet, daughter of the 1st Lord Bruce of Kinloss, Master of the Rolls in England.[2]
He appears to have accompanied
Hearing of the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649, it is said that he refused to shave his beard as a penance for the behaviour of his fellow countrymen.[3] He was taken prisoner at the capitulation of Carrickfergus in August 1650, but was given a free pass, and having been banished from Scotland, remained in Ireland.[2]
He was present at the Battle of Worcester (3 September 1651), where his men surrendered, and he himself was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London. In May he escaped abroad and, in 1654, took part in the Highland rebellion and was exempted from Cromwell's Act of Grace, a reward of 200 guineas being offered for his capture, dead or alive.[4]
Dalyell evaded capture and fled to
He returned to Britain upon
On 3 January 1667 he was made a privy counsellor, and from 1678 till his death he represented Linlithgowshire in the Scottish parliament. He was incensed by the choice of the
On 25 November 1681, a commission was issued authorizing him to enroll the regiment afterwards known as the
Gaming with the devil
Legend has it that "Bluidy Tam" enjoyed on occasion a hand of cards with the devil. During one of these games, the devil, losing, threw the card table at the general. The devil missed and the table flew threw through the window and ended up in a pond on the grounds of the House of the Binns. This tale was passed down through generations of inhabitants of the Binns. In 1870, following a particularly hard drought, a marble topped card table was seen poking through the low waters of the pond. In 1930 the mother of the twentieth century Tam Dalyell asked a local joiner to repair the legs on the table, to find out that the about-to-be-retired tradesman's first job had been to retrieve said table from the pond.[7][page needed][8]
Bibliography
- Report on the Muniments of Sir Robert Osborne Dalyell, baronet of Binns, Hist. MSS. Comm. 9th Rep. pt. ii. 230–8
- Captain Creighton's Memoirs in Swift's Works
- Thurloe State Papers, ii.
- State Papers, Dom. Ser., 1654–67
- Wodrow's Sufferings of the Church of Scotland
- Fountainhall's Historical Notices: ib. Observes
- Nicolls's Diary
- Burnet's Own Time
- Balfour's Annals
- Acts of the Parliament of Scotland
- Douglas's Baronage of Scotland
- Grainger's Biog. Hist. of England, 4th ed. iii. 380–1
- Letters to the Duke of Lauderdale, 1666–80
- British Library Add MSS 23125–23126; 23128; 23135; 23246–23247, published in Lauderdale Papers (Camden Society)
- Letters to Charles II, Add MS 28747
- Information from Sir Robert Dalyell, K.C.I.E.
- Foster's Members of Parliament in Scotland, 1882[6]
References
- ^ Paul, James Balfour (1903). An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of all Arms and Bearings in Scotland. Edinburgh, W. Green & sons. pp. 291.
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 779.
- ^ Wood, James, ed. (1907). . The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 779–780.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 780.
- ^ a b Henderson 1888.
- ^ Strange Tales of the Lothians. Lang Syne, Midlothian 1978
- ^ Coventry, Martin. Haunted Castles and Houses of Scotland. 2006. ISBN 9781899874477. Page 136. Retrieved on 20 Mar. 2023. "Sir Tam Dalyell (Bloody Tam) of the Binns was another fellow with a fearsome reputation (musket balls would just bounce off him) and was reputed to have played cards with the Devil."
Sources
- Green, Mary Anne Everett, ed. (1864). Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series of the Reign of Charles 2. Preserved in Her Majestyʼs Public Record Office. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green. p. 295.
- Henderson, Thomas Finlayson (1888). "Dalyell, Thomas". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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- Hewison, James King (1913). "Chapter XXIII – The Ruling of Rothes and the Rising of Rullion Green". The Covenanters. Vol. 2. Glasgow: John Smith and son. pp. 169-220.
- Lamont, John (1830). Kinloch, George Ritchie (ed.). The diary of Mr. John Lamont of Newton. 1649-1671. Edinburgh. p. 196.
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- Kirkton, James (1817). The secret and true history of the church of Scotland from the Restoration to the year 1678. Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne. p. 249-252,227-228.
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- Wodrow, Robert (1835a). Burns, Robert (ed.). The history of the sufferings of the church of Scotland from the restoration to the revolution, with an original memoir of the author, extracts from his correspondence, and preliminary dissertation. Vol. 1. Glasgow: Blackie, Fullarton & co., and Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & co. pp. 207-214.
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Attribution
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dalyell, Thomas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 779–780. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the