William Armstrong [Kinmont Willie]

(1709-1603 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Armstrong, William, fl. 1596 DNB: Armstrong, William, of Kinmont (fl. 1569–1603), border reiver LBT ID: WiArmst1603 VIAF ID: 50953688 LOC ID: n96052953	B/BAP: 1709
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish border reiver whose daring escape from Carlisle Castle in 1596 was the subject of the ballad of “Kinmont Willie.”
REFERENCES TO William Armstrong [Kinmont Willie]: Sir Walter Scott to Lord Montagu of Boughton, 27 March 1822 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1822