Scottish History's Most Gruesome Execution

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  • Scottish History has seen many gruesome events, bu there can be few more than the execution of Walter Stewart. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey tells the story and asks about its significance in the sweep of Scotland's history
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  • @ScotlandHistoryTours
    @ScotlandHistoryTours  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Support the channel with Patreon www.patreon.com/scotlandhistorytours
    More about the murder of James I th-cam.com/video/mqJSLMXUoKw/w-d-xo.html
    Tour Scotland with Bruce www.scotlandhistorytours.co.uk/tours/info/group

    • @benjaminlasseter8929
      @benjaminlasseter8929 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Background. I just said it in too long a way. :)

    • @StuartAnderson-xl4bo
      @StuartAnderson-xl4bo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your not seeing much if yer eyes were plucked the day before min 😅

  • @katherinegannett
    @katherinegannett 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    Background, please. I'm glad to see you back. I missed you last week. Your videos are always entertaining, informative, and interesting! A fan from Southwest Oklahoma.

  • @euansmith3699
    @euansmith3699 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Bruce, "Click the like button at the end..."
    Me, clicking the like button before starting the video, "He's not let me down yet." 👍
    Exeground!!! Backcution!!!

  • @Wee_Langside
    @Wee_Langside 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Hi Bruce good to see you back.
    Background for me

  • @Andy-m3l
    @Andy-m3l 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    To be fair Bruce, it was simply the fact you'd posted a video that inspired me to click on it. But if you're going to insist I would prefer more background. Thank you so much ol' bean 😊

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Fair enough, I'll keep posting😜

    • @Andy-m3l
      @Andy-m3l 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ScotlandHistoryTours 👍👍

    • @heatherlewis4477
      @heatherlewis4477 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm more curious about the background of King James I's murder, to be honest. As brutal and as gruesome as that execution is, the history is fascinating to me.

    • @raydriver7300
      @raydriver7300 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      As Meatloaf said: You took the words right out of my mouth 🌞

  • @ikaika0083
    @ikaika0083 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Fascinating as always sir! Background please.

  • @007hwm3
    @007hwm3 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    From my scottish/irish/Scandinavian heritage I'm into the background of the why and how things happen.

  • @Scot-r3z
    @Scot-r3z 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Hi Bruce. I’m the ignoramus that interrupted you mid phone call on Princess St a fortnight ago 😬. Loving your work 👍

  • @robbieredball
    @robbieredball 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    What videos? In the words of Monty Python's Mr Creosote, "I'll ave the lot". Story teller supreme, always fascinating and always learn something Thank you!

  • @peterscrafton5212
    @peterscrafton5212 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I admire your videos, which are both educational and entertaining. Only my lack of mobility prevents me from applying to join your eleven-day tour. Thank you. Were it to be possible, I should like to learn more about the background AND the execution, please

  • @ryvyl
    @ryvyl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    New video! Reason enough to watch. But background, please.
    Thanks Bruce!

  • @tomhafele359
    @tomhafele359 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Always a gem! Background for me!

  • @dueed
    @dueed 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    please tell us about the Covenanters! Great video!

  • @madscientistmtg
    @madscientistmtg 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks!

  • @rhondajhunter9091
    @rhondajhunter9091 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love learning about the background of events. It helps me understand how they came about. I learned some of this in college, but you are much more easy to understand than some university lecturers.

  • @PixieDustedTara
    @PixieDustedTara 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just received my second hoodie from your shop and I love it!! Yours is my favorite channel here on TH-cam. Have a great day

  • @elizabethparker2017
    @elizabethparker2017 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Background. And I agree with everyone else's nice comments. Your videos are great! Scotland is high on my list of places to visit. I'll get there eventually, but in the meantime, I get to watch your videos! Thanks!

  • @benjaminmaybury4238
    @benjaminmaybury4238 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Background please.
    I was the guy who saw you at the Parliament and briefly said hi.
    I’m glad to see the video you were working on. Love your work.

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good to meet you, if only briefly and under the stress of completing the task

  • @askel-1
    @askel-1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Clicked on out of curiosity, really happy to find a very well presented video. Nice wk fella

  • @paulhooton6261
    @paulhooton6261 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've never come across you before but I'm impressed. Yours is a very entertaining and informative style. I like that you don't try to sugar-coat the horror and brutality of those times. So, for anyone who yearns for a return to the good old days, there weren't any!

  • @billyharden9316
    @billyharden9316 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I like the story and background.👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @Oni-Ryu8
    @Oni-Ryu8 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hey bro both please 🙏 and have an awesome Christmas and prosperous new year

  • @pederkristensen4691
    @pederkristensen4691 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Bruce , nice to see you back after your break. A background episode would be great, thank you.

  • @MrSkinsinfilms
    @MrSkinsinfilms 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    execution and background. I'm related to the Stewarts through my Maternal Grandmother (Vietch - Dalwyck Castle, Tweed River Valley) My 15th GGF James Stewart, The Black Knight of Lorne married Joan Beaufort after James 1st murder.

  • @nancyholcombe8030
    @nancyholcombe8030 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A new video from my favorite bard of history! That's why I clicked this on! I've missed my Saturday story but hope you had a fantastic birthday! From what I've seen in the comments, I think your pointing out the grusomeness of this execution with sounds of it curdled more than a few stomachs! It made me thankful that we don't think that such a thing as public execution is necessary anymore. Of course, the local newscast tells me that others think we do. I'll look at both of the other videos as anything you put out is worth watching! Please take care now! May God bless you and yours. 😊

  • @gryffydd42
    @gryffydd42 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’d like both eventually, but would like Background first, please. Thanks again for more learning Scottish history. And very glad I got to meet you, Bruce, in Vancouver, WA this past summer.

  • @andrewscott5852
    @andrewscott5852 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🤯background please Bruce amazing and hilarious too.
    Loved the burns reference too’ see yon Burke that calls himself a lord’! Class act sir🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

  • @colinthompson3111
    @colinthompson3111 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Apologies Bruce but I saw Celtic deliver a 3-0 execution of Rangers recently. Watching the Rangers analysts explaining their teams loss makes that the most brutal execution in Scottish history.
    Excellent video as always.
    Canadian fan of the channel.

    • @Scot-r3z
      @Scot-r3z 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      W⚓️

  • @joani2824
    @joani2824 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I cannot believe even surviving the first day of that. It’s fascinating how Edinburgh was such a brutal place for so long in history and now … just lovely. How the times change. Your videos are amazing as always Bruce .

  • @iainmelville9411
    @iainmelville9411 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good to see you back. I missed you last week.
    Edit : had a think about it = background.

  • @sharktomesmiles
    @sharktomesmiles 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Happy Birthday Bruce!!! Are you having fun? I love the touch that your doing a vid in Edinburgh. Im sure you know me enough Background your going to get to the execution anyway. If you have to make it a two vid. Hugs

  • @NovemberOneOscarGrouch
    @NovemberOneOscarGrouch หลายเดือนก่อน

    Execution and background! Love your channel Bruce!

  • @sandyr1789
    @sandyr1789 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bruce Thank you for another excellent and educational video. Background video plz.

  • @nastyham5302
    @nastyham5302 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "three day execution"
    Excellent metal band name

  • @Jonnyxs
    @Jonnyxs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good to see you big man👊🏼

  • @juliemyers8869
    @juliemyers8869 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Bruce hope your well, yet another fab video, I have to admit I’d never heard of this before , background please , and thank you for your time

  • @sjohnson1216
    @sjohnson1216 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You mentioned the Proclaimers in one video. THANKS. I'm a contemporary of theirs but was, er, studying Greek and Latin in those days instead of watching MTV. Anyway-skipping a lot of narrative-I looked up their music and can't thank you enough.

  • @craigjohnstone3855
    @craigjohnstone3855 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ahh Saturday morning treat babk.. seen you last Saturday night in Dunblane great show Bruce..😊

  • @Calum_S
    @Calum_S 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hooray! Brucester's back!

  • @wayneharryhughes3629
    @wayneharryhughes3629 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your videos are amazing and so informative and a rich amazing history that is Scotland

  • @Expressionisto1
    @Expressionisto1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Background please Bruce. Thanks for another fascinating story.

  • @Hiltok
    @Hiltok 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely seeing the doggos playing behind you at the end, Bruce.
    The reign of James VI certainly was consequential, uniting the Scottish and English crowns and starting the plantation of Ulster. It's hard to warm to many of these historical leaders when their methods were so damaging to common folk.

  • @davidberesford7009
    @davidberesford7009 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Bruce. I clicked because I wanted to see another of your history vids. Keep up the good work. Bye!

  • @suemackenzie7491
    @suemackenzie7491 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm currently reading David Mitchell's Unruly. History with a splash of humour. Did he get inspiration from your videos, I wonder?
    Glad to see you back.

  • @resourcedragon
    @resourcedragon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Definitely the BACKGROUND.

  • @malcolmmacdougall
    @malcolmmacdougall 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the way you explain all

  • @julzy3
    @julzy3 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I clicked because I wanted a story by Bruce, so thanks! 💫 Always background.🔦🔎

  • @dabsafe
    @dabsafe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Background. Well done Bruce. I should be hqving nightmares for the next 2 weeks.

  • @nicholahenry539
    @nicholahenry539 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you Bruce for another fascinating video background please

  • @SeattleJeffin
    @SeattleJeffin 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another engrossing story. I always look forward to your new releases.

  • @johnpuntenney4596
    @johnpuntenney4596 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video Bruce. Background would definitely help.

  • @cassieosbourne7666
    @cassieosbourne7666 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Background please

  • @davidjohnston7512
    @davidjohnston7512 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I like the pin on your jacket mate.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺👍

  • @elainewoodard2970
    @elainewoodard2970 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Background please! So good to see ya!

  • @marka4891
    @marka4891 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As unhelpful as this might be, I'd love both videos!

  • @GAIVSCALIGVLA
    @GAIVSCALIGVLA 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video Bruce but next time I would say just make the sound effects quieter because it made it hard to hear you at times. But again overall great job

  • @wesleyworley8982
    @wesleyworley8982 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I played the video because you're an amazing storyteller.

  • @AlanMcCartney-t6h
    @AlanMcCartney-t6h 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    background ....bit late , love the channel Bruce.

  • @toddsaint-pe9726
    @toddsaint-pe9726 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Background! (I clicked because you're a great storyteller, but I'm glad you asked!)

  • @lynnemurphy114
    @lynnemurphy114 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Why you not on TV ☘️

  • @NicholasEV1986
    @NicholasEV1986 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Background, please. Glad you're back this week.

  • @NG-monkey
    @NG-monkey 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where n why for me Bruce, so "background" please 😁 👍🏻 great video!

  • @sharonrigs7999
    @sharonrigs7999 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Bruce!
    I'm a Scot-Canadian who lives in Nova Scotia. I love my motherland, but I prefer the vast wilderness of Canada.
    I love Pict/Scot history and you are a great presenter.

  • @ianbarkham5080
    @ianbarkham5080 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I've known several people who've died over three days in Edinburgh. Mind you it was their first Fringe... Oh and BACKGROUND

  • @gordonday1273
    @gordonday1273 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And I enjoy your narrative of your history

  • @gdhdi5339
    @gdhdi5339 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    BACKGROUND
    I noticed the Australia pin, too. I bet we're only too glad to have you!

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's an eagle eye

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      In February and March I'll be visiting the major towns in Australia and New Zealand with my live show Scotland Made the World. It would be great to see you. Get info at www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx

  • @Allastrology
    @Allastrology 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    oh my gawsh!!! It BRUCE!!!! So great to see you holy crap this was intense. This brutal execution, more like torture and def for a show. This is timely for Halloweeny vibe...yikes!!! James the first background please. I like your jacket amigo. Holy shit all the minority monarchs:0
    Honestly, I will watch whatever you upload. Your high quality story telling, including history as you know it happened is all I need. Thanks again for the lesson!!

  • @divi2747
    @divi2747 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you!

  • @IrishPotato86
    @IrishPotato86 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know I am going to enjoy all of your videos before I even click on them!!!

  • @dayeti6794
    @dayeti6794 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was watching for the 2 adorable pups swimming at the end of course! 😂 🐕🐕‍🦺
    Great story… a bit gruesome though. 😮🤣
    ❤ you Brucey!

  • @resourcedragon
    @resourcedragon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I would have thought that with such a brutal execution there would be a good chance that the victim would die before they'd finished. In particular, if he were left out at night, there's the risk of hypothermia. Shock can also kill. The violence of the process makes it likely that a major vein or artery could be ruptured.
    Dare I say it, the fact that poor Walter Stuart survived so long suggests that he was in very good physical condition before they started killing him.

  • @chipjohnson9283
    @chipjohnson9283 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Execution. If your speaking about the Wigtown Martyrs, then Yes!!! Also, are you planning a Halloween in Scotland video for next month?
    Spent Halloween in Edinburgh in 2019 and it was the best! 💚

  • @gailsears2913
    @gailsears2913 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Well, not exactly what I was expecting for my breakfast entertainment/enlightenment! I kept wondering at what point the prisoner would have passed out from the pain. Anyway, background.

  • @SshadykK
    @SshadykK 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    im scottish and live in scotland so does tht mean my vote couts twice? background plz x

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everyone gets one vote I'm afraid

    • @theoztreecrasher2647
      @theoztreecrasher2647 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ScotlandHistoryTours Nope! The voting machines are RIGGED! 😜😁

  • @macfiercesome
    @macfiercesome 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    great stuff, Bruce, some background please.

  • @alansmithee8831
    @alansmithee8831 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    A'reyt Bruce. Background.
    I commented before that not all English are so keen to bow and scrape. My native Yorkshire has many Robin Hood place names. Our US cousins point to the Magna Carta, from that era as a confirmation that everyone is equal. Our ancestors accepted Scottish kings too, so long as they did not start overruling Parliament. Then it was execution time.

  • @agent_rouka
    @agent_rouka 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Background, please! (Excellent videa as always, thank you!!)

  • @IIChristisKingII
    @IIChristisKingII 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Background and the execution, Im a greedy bugger. 😅

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You also don't understand how either/or questions work😜

  • @alecblunden8615
    @alecblunden8615 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Background, pls.

  • @peterkelly1665
    @peterkelly1665 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting presentation not for the ordinary casual viewer but great tale in particular that Scots tradition of minority rulers the background to the execution is a must to hear

  • @davidarchibald50
    @davidarchibald50 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Hey Bruce. I took another lotto ticket, I am determined to annoy yer one more time yet, and even buy ye a dram...don't git yer hopes up. It seems we humans, Scots and others, are never so happy as when making other folks miserable. We are no different even today. Aroha

  • @davidrobertson6501
    @davidrobertson6501 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Let's go down the rabbit hole of background. Or whatever you want as you're always informative and entertaining

  • @moragmckay3779
    @moragmckay3779 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Background. But why not link both.

  • @heathersteeves6800
    @heathersteeves6800 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Background. Thank you!

  • @DraigBlackCat
    @DraigBlackCat 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Background.
    The explanation of the tale behind such an execution is more meaningful than the description of the act itself.

  • @davidmckay8413
    @davidmckay8413 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Too late your decision is done, by the time I saw this, but the minority rule one after the other was of extreme interest to me and made me think of how it affected the country, great point. 👍

  • @wegladstone1967
    @wegladstone1967 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great history. I amazingly never knew this. I want to hear the background of this but do not see the link to click on where to vote.

  • @geraldfuss7582
    @geraldfuss7582 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent video! Background and Execution, please! Thanks.

  • @nathanthomson1931
    @nathanthomson1931 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Dude, I clicked because you finally posted a video again 😅

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sorry, we had a family bereavement, which took up my time

    • @nathanthomson1931
      @nathanthomson1931 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @ScotlandHistoryTours no worries, mate. We all need a break! Was just saying I was excited to wake up to another vid. My condolences, btw

  • @DuncanMcintyre-jk3qb
    @DuncanMcintyre-jk3qb 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nah week past Friday when the mighty mighty pars beat the raith ❤😂coyp and thank you for the opportunity to watch/listen to a story 😂

  • @Prel8
    @Prel8 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Background please!!.....The description of that execution nearly made me lose my lunch.

  • @eeekityeeekeeek1778
    @eeekityeeekeeek1778 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Backround, please. (I even forwarded through all the gory bits in this one.)

  • @christopheraliaga-kelly6254
    @christopheraliaga-kelly6254 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You forgot to mention the 'Warriston Horror' of 1600, when the young wife of the Laird of Warriston was beheaded on 'The Maiden', our predecessor of the Guillotine, her nurse was burnt alive at the same time, and the man who was paid to kill the Laird of Warriston was 'broken on the wheel', the first to be executed that way and NOT the last!

  • @JerryBear59
    @JerryBear59 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Background, Bruce🐻👍

  • @terrabytesarcheology
    @terrabytesarcheology 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    loved the execution description, it needed some better graphics though :)

  • @meredithf.1022
    @meredithf.1022 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Background, please and thank you, Bruce.

  • @nevarmaor
    @nevarmaor 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Background, I was curious as to the why over the what.

  • @debbiegilmour6171
    @debbiegilmour6171 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Background please :)

  • @keighlancoe5933
    @keighlancoe5933 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I bet that every pub an executioner entered in his life time went so quiet that you could hear a pin drop as he walked through the door.

  • @claudiaclark6162
    @claudiaclark6162 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Why! would anyone stand there and watch that?

    • @cassieosbourne7666
      @cassieosbourne7666 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      For the same reason that people watched GOT

    • @beebeelicious
      @beebeelicious 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      No internet.

    • @julianshepherd2038
      @julianshepherd2038 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      There was no TH-cam

    • @claudiaclark6162
      @claudiaclark6162 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cassieosbourne7666 What the hell is GOT?

    • @cassieosbourne7666
      @cassieosbourne7666 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@claudiaclark6162 game of thrones