Dalketh

English

Proper noun

Dalketh

1. Obsolete spelling of Dalkeith. (a town in Scotland)
   • 1586, Iohn Vowell, “The hiſtorie of Scotland”, in The supplie of this Irish chronicle, page 330:

     And doubting leſt the cardinalll(being there pꝛeſent)ſhould go about to perſuade the nobilitie not to conſent to their deſires, they cauſed him to be put in ward within the caſtell of Dalketh: […]

   • 1590, John Stow, A Svmmarie of the Chronicles of England, from the Firſt arriuing of Brute in this Iſland, vnto this preſent yeere of Chriſt, 1590‎^[1]:

     Next to the Marches Pictland, now termed Loudean, bounding vpon the Eaſt, a very hillie countrey, barren almoſt of any trees. The moſt famous towns of the ſame be Dunbar, Hadington, Leith, Dalketh and Edenborough, the Kings ſeate,where alſo is the caſtle of Maidens, a very ſtrong and defenſible place.

   • 1610, “The wife and Iſſue of King Robert”, in A Catalogve of the Kings of Scotland, page 24:

     A Daughter married vnto the Earle of Dalketh.