Paisley Renfrewshire United Kingdom

The abbey known as Paisley Priory, dedicated to Saints Mary, James, Mirin and Milburga, is founded in Scottish Strathclyde, seven miles (eleven kilometers) west of Glasgow on the White Cart Water, a stream, when, in 1163 Walter FitzAlan, the first High Steward of Scotland, issues a charter for a priory to be set up on land owned by him in Paisley.

Around thirteen monks come from the Cluniac priory at Much Wenlock in Shropshire to found the community.

The two belligerents, after landing and marching towards Renfrew, meet near Paisley and battle begins.

The Scottish royal army, commanded by the High Steward, Walter FitzAllan, consists of Scoto-Norman knights and armored men-at-arms, and Somerled's Gaelic and Norse warriors are no match against them.

Somerled is wounded in the leg by a javelin and then killed by the sword of his opponents.

Somerled's eldest son Gillecallum, from his first marriage, dies by his side.

With Somerled's death, the Norse-Gaelic army takes flight and many are slain before the survivors escape back to the ships.

Walter FitzAlan had in 1163 founded at Renfrew a house of monks of the Cluniac order drawn from the priory of Much Wenlock, in his native county of Shropshire.

Upon acquired directly from the Crown the Berwickshire estates of Birkenside and Legerwood on the eastern or left bank of the Leader Water, Walter presents to the monks the church of Legerwood, which they will hold from 1164 until the Reformation in 1560.

The monastery will steadily grow and by 1219 become Paisley Abbey.

King Robert has Crown Prince James taken in secrecy to Dirleton Castle in February 1406 to wait for a ship to transport him to France.

James's uncle, the Duke of Albany, sends a large force after James and when a battle is fought nearby, James is put in a rowing boat and ferried to the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth.

The eleven-year-old heir to the throne and his guardians are left for a month on the tiny, windswept, rocky island among the boiling seas, before a ship arrives trying to bring James to France.

Albany informs the English King, who arranges the ship's interception.

Thus James becomes a prisoner of the King of England, and will remain so for eighteen years.

When Robert III hears of his son's capture, he becomes even more depressed and allegedly dies from grief over the capture of James.

Robert asks to be buried under a dunghill with the epitaph: Here lies the worst of Kings and the most miserable of men.

Instead he is interred at Paisley, rather than Scone, the traditional burial ground of the Scottish kings, as he had not considered himself worthy of the honor.

Albany, who has become Regent on the death of Robert III, shows no haste in paying for his nephew's release.

He secures the release of his own son Murdoch, captured in 1402 at the Battle of Homildon Hill, but not James.