CLEAR THE CAUSEWAY RIOTS

CLEAR THE CAUSEWAY RIOTS
   bickerings in the streets of Edinburgh in 1515 between the rival factions of Angus and Arran, to the utter rout of the former, or the Douglas party.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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