Selkirk

Selkirk is an old royal burgh in the Scottish Borders, above the valley of the Ettrick. Once surrounded by the royal forest, the town endured the dangers of the frontier: after an English attack in the reign of James V, the king supplied timber to help rebuild it. West of Selkirk, at Philiphaugh, a Covenanter army defeated the Marquess of Montrose's Royalists in September 1645, bringing his campaign in Scotland largely to an end.