Triple Alliance

Having won the Battle of Dunbar in 1650, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, sought to bring Scotland also under his protectorate. When he eventually returned to England, leaving General George Monk in command, one of the Roundhead officers left behind was Colonel James Stansfield, who was made ''governor'' of Haddingtonshire. Stansfield befriended two Haddingtonshire lairds whom he had ca...