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SIR ALEXANDER SETON (d. c. 136o)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 704 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SIR ALEXANDER SETON (d. c. 136o) was probably the brother of Sir Christopher. He received considerable grants of land from King Robert Bruce, and was one of the signatories of the
letter
  addressed by the Scottish nobles to the
pope
  to assert the in-dependence of
Scotland
 . He was twice sent on embassies t England, and in 1333 he defended the town of Berwick. against the English. He agreed with the English to surrender the town on a certain date unless he received relief before that time, giving his eldest surviving son
Thomas
  as a
hostage
 : On the refusal of the Scots to surrender at the expiry of the term
Thomas
  Seton was hanged in sight of the garrison. This incident is
related by
Fordun
  and Boece, but with inconsistencies that have rendered it suspect. An elder son, Alexander, had perished in 1332 in opposing the landing of
Edward
 
Baliol
 ; according to some authorities the third son, William, was hanged with his brother, but he is generally said to have been drowned during the siege; his daughter Margaret married Alan de Wintoun. The tragic death of
young
  Thomas Seton was the subject of a ballad of " Seton's Sons," printed in Sheldon's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; of a tragedy, The Siege of Berwick (1794, printed 1882) by Edward Jerningham, and of another by James Miller (1824).


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