During the reign of Malcolm IV, King of the Scots, Hugh de Swinton and his fellow mosstroopers helped keep the rampaging Galloway rebels at bay. But it was for his expertise in the killing of wild boars, as protector of the Swintons' sheep flocks, that young Hugh was brought to Malcolm's attention.
But Malcolm was a pious man much concerned with the well-being of his people. And he handpicked Hugh de Swinton to mastermind a very special project close to his heart: to establish Scotland's first real hospital for the sick and poor, at Soutra in Lauderdale.
'Through his imaginative dialogue, he provides a voice for Scotland's heroes' Scotland on Sunday
- ISBN10 0340601051
- ISBN13 9780340601051
- Publish Date 21 July 1994 (first published 2 December 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Coronet Books
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 320
- Language English