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- 1 - A fragment of a ballad in Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" tells of the death at Flodden of John Muirhead of Lachope a grandson of Sir William, in the direct line of descent.
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2 - James Grosset Muirhead [1706-1776] is credited with the recovery of the ballad of the "Laird of Muirhead" which recounts the story of the defeat of the Scottish army by the English at the Battle of Flodden, in 1513. The Muirhead clan had the signal honour of serving as King James IV of Scotland's royal bodyguards during the battle. King James, and his son, Alexander, were both slain, along with the flower of Scottish chivalry, including the Laird of Muirhead, John Muirhead [ca. 1443-1513], and over two hundred of his clansmen also perished in the battle.
It appears, from the Appendicx to Nisbet's Heraldry, p. 264, that Muirhead of Lachop and Bullis, the person here called Laird of Muirhead, was a man of rank, being rentaller, or perhaps feuar, of many crown-lands in Galloway; and was, in truth, slain in "Campo Belli de Northumberland suv vexillo Regis," i.e. in the Field of Flodden.
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