In Freedom's Cause
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G.A. Henty. In Freedom's Cause
Preface
Chapter I. GLEN CAIRN
Chapter II. Leaving Home
Chapter III. Sir William Wallace
Chapter IV. The Capture of Lanark
Chapter V. A Treacherous Plot
Chapter VI. The Barns of Ayr
Chapter VII. The Cave in the Pentlands
Chapter VIII. The Council at Stirling
Chapter IX. The Battle of Stirling Bridge
Chapter X. The Battle of Falkirk
Chapter XI. Robert The Bruce
Chapter XII. The Battle of Methven
Chapter XIII. The Castle of Dunstaffnage
Chapter XIV. Colonsay
Chapter XV. A Mission to Ireland
Chapter XVI. An Irish Rising
Chapter XVII. The King’s Blood Hound
Chapter XVIII. The Hound Restored
Chapter XIX. The Convent of St. Kenneth
Chapter XX. The Heiress of the Kerrs
Chapter XXI. The Siege of Aberfilly
Chapter XXII. A Prisoner
Chapter XXIII. The Escape from Berwick
Chapter XXIV. The Progress of the War
Chapter XXV. The Capture of a Stronghold
Chapter XXVI. Edinburgh
Chapter XXVII. Bannockburn
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The village of Glen Cairn was situated in a valley in the broken country lying to the west of the Pentland Hills, some fifteen miles north of the town of Lanark, and the country around it was wild and picturesque. The villagers for the most part knew little of the world beyond their own valley, although a few had occasionally paid visits to Glasgow, which lay as far to the west as Lanark was distant to the south. On a spur jutting out from the side of the hill stood Glen Cairn Castle, whose master the villagers had for generations regarded as their lord.
The glory of the little fortalice had now departed. Sir William Forbes had been killed on his own hearthstone, and the castle had been sacked in a raid by the Kerrs, whose hold lay to the southwest, and who had long been at feud with the Forbeses. The royal power was feeble, and the Kerrs had many friends, and were accordingly granted the lands they had seized; only it was specified that Dame Forbes, the widow of Sir William, should be allowed to reside in the fortalice free from all let or hindrance, so long as she meddled not, nor sought to stir up enmity among the late vassals of her lord against their new masters.
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“Very few, Archie. One Sir Malcolm Wallace, a knight of but small estate, refused to do so, and was, together with his eldest son, slain in an encounter with an English detachment under a leader named Fenwick at Loudon Hill.”
“And was he the father of that William Wallace of whom the talk was lately that he had slain young Selbye, son of the English governor of Dundee?”
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