Commonwealth of England with England" was issued by the Lord Protector and proclaimed in Scotland by the military governor of Scotland, General George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle. The ordinance declared that "the people of Scotland should be united with the people of England into one Commonwealth and under one Government" and decreed that a new "Arms of the Commonwealth", incorporating the Saltire, should be placed on "all the public seals, seals of office, and seals of bodies civil or corporate, in Scotland" as "a badge of this Union". On the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, his son, Richard Cromwell, inherited the
Walter Byset, Lord of Aboyne Walter Byset, Lord of Aboyne Walter Byset, Lord of Aboyne (died 1251) was a Scoto-Norman nobleman. Born in Scotland. Walter married in 1233, Ada de Galloway, daughter of Roland fitz Uhtred. She was the sister of Alan of Galloway. Walter fled to Ireland and then to England with his nephew John Byset after they had been accused of involvement in the murder of Padraig, Earl of Atholl (his cousin in-law) and two companions at their lodgings after a tournament at Haddington in 1242. Patrick II Earl of March, exhorted by David de Hastings, pursued Walter who sought protection from King