Pugh - Killing Fields of Scotland : AD 83 to 1746

M y first thanks go to the Historic Scotland team who kindly offered advice and information about their initiative in preserving Scotlands battlefields. Special thanks are due to Kevin Munro, Senior Designations Officer (Battlefields and Conflict Heritage), for taking the time to read the manuscript, offer advice, support, correcting several errors of fact and for providing the Introduction. Andrew Burnet, Publications and Information Manager, Historic Scotland, gave general advice on various matters, for which I am grateful. I also wish to thank Michelle Andersson, Image Librarian, Historic Scotland, who directed me to sources where some of the illustrations I have used were available.

For documents and State papers quoted in the Notes to each chapter, my thanks are due to the staffs of the National Library of Scotland and Edinburgh Central Library (Scottish Room).

I wish to thank Christina Watson, Search Room, Royal Commission on Historical and Ancient Monuments of Scotland, who kindly directed me to sources which assisted in the production of this book Thanks are also due to George Wilson and Ian Riches, National Trust for Scotland, who provided me with information on the battlefields of Bannockburn, Glenshiel and Culloden.

I am indebted to Moira Dempster, illustrator, Dunbar, for producing all but one of the maps of some of the battle sites featured; her professionalism as an illustrator speaks for itself. Thanks are also due to Peter Reese, author of Cromwells Masterstroke Dunbar 1650 and The Life of General George Monck For King and Cromwell published by Pen & Sword Books Ltd and his colleague Paul H. Vickers, who gave me their permission to reproduce Mr Vickerss excellent map of the battle of Dunbar 1650 which appears in Monck .

I also wish to pay tribute to my dear friend Kate Covey, who kindly agreed to read the manuscript and in the process, correct my many typing errors and offer sound advice, especially on those occasions when I over-egged the pudding! Thanks are also due to Simon Lee, Operator and Guide, Spirit of Scotland Tours, and my good friend John Harris, who both provided some of the illustrations. Double thanks to John who compiled the Index and, in the process, made me think again about certain aspects of the text.

Finally, last but by no means least, I would like to thank Jamie Wilson and Richard Doherty, my editors at Pen & Sword Books Ltd, who gave me support, encouragement and sound advice in the process of producing this book

R. J. M. Pugh,
Dunbar,
East Lothian
2012