Editing Aberdeen (section)

===Wars of Scottish Independence===
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During the [[Wars of Scottish Independence]], Aberdeen was under English rule, so Robert the Bruce laid siege to [[Aberdeen Castle]] before destroying it in 1308, followed by executing the English garrison. The city was burned by [[Edward III of England]] in 1336, but was rebuilt and extended. The city was strongly fortified to prevent attacks by neighbouring lords, but the gates were removed by 1770.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NSRAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9-IA1|title=Notes on the Chapel, Crown, and Other Ancient Buildings of King's College, Aberdeen|first=Norman|last=Macpherson|year=1889|page=9|publisher=Neill and Company|access-date=18 March 2023|archive-date=15 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415010001/https://books.google.com/books?id=NSRAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9-IA1|url-status=live}}</ref>

Aberdeen's medieval council registers survive from 1398 onwards and are exceptional for their quantity and continuity among surviving Scottish burgh records. The earliest eight volumes, from 1398 to 1511, have been included in the UNESCO [[UK Memory of the World Register]], and have been edited in a digital edition.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/datasets/aberdeen-registers-online-1398-1511|title=Aberdeen Registers Online: 1398–1511|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=2019|publisher=University of Aberdeen|access-date=15 August 2021|archive-date=7 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807164139/https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/datasets/aberdeen-registers-online-1398-1511|url-status=live}}</ref>

During the [[Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms|Wars of the Three Kingdoms]] of 1644 to 1647 the city was plundered by both sides. In 1644, it was taken and ransacked by Royalist troops after the [[Battle of Aberdeen (1644)|Battle of Aberdeen]]<ref>{{Cite book|first=Chris |last=Brown |title=The Battle of Aberdeen 1644|year=2002|publisher=Tempus Publishing |location=Stroud, Gloucestershire}}</ref> and two years later [[Battle of Aberdeen (1646)|it was stormed]] by a Royalist force under the command of the [[George Gordon, 2nd Marquis of Huntly]].<ref>{{Cite DNB|last=Henderson |first=Thomas Finlayson |wstitle=Gordon, George (d.1649)  |volume=22 |pages=190–194}}</ref> An outbreak of [[bubonic plague]] over 1687 and 1688 killed 8.5% of the population, adding to the economic and demographic damage caused by war.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jillings |first1=K. |title=Aberdeen's Plague Epidemic of 1647–48 |journal=Scottish Medical Journal |date=1 August 2010 |volume=3 |issue=55 |pages=43–45 |doi=10.1258/rsmsmj.55.3.43 |pmid=20795518 |s2cid=24546213 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1258/rsmsmj.55.3.43?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed |access-date=31 August 2023 |archive-date=31 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831161044/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1258/rsmsmj.55.3.43?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed |url-status=live }}</ref> In the 18th century, a new Town Hall was built and the first social services appeared with the [[Aberdeen Royal Infirmary|Aberdeen Infirmary]] at [[Woolmanhill Hospital|Woolmanhill]] in 1739<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=1452|title=Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen|publisher=National Archives|access-date=23 December 2018|archive-date=23 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223164155/https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=1452|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[Royal Cornhill Hospital|Aberdeen Lunatic Asylum]] in 1800.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqServer=Calms&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%27grhb%202%27%29 |title=Collection: GB 1105: NHS Grampian Archives |publisher=Aberdeen University |website=calms.abdn.ac.uk |access-date=15 December 2016 |archive-date=3 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503142052/http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqServer=Calms&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%27grhb%202%27%29 |url-status=dead }}</ref>