Philiphaugh, on Yarrow Water, 3 miles WSW. of Selkirk, the property from 1461 till 1889 of the line of the 'Outlaw Murray' of the ballad. Here, on 13th September 1645, Montrose (q.v.) was defeated by David Leslie, who butchered more than a hundred Irish prisoners. See Craig-Brown's Selkirkshire (1886).
Philiphaugh
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 116
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