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Alexander Falconer Murison. Sir William Wallace
Sir William Wallace
Table of Contents
PREFACE
SIR WILLIAM WALLACE
CHAPTER I. The English Aggression
THE PROJECT OF MARRIAGE
THE ASSERTION OF OVER-LORDSHIP
THE TRIUMPH OF AGGRESSION
CHAPTER II. Wallace's Family and Early Years
CHAPTER III. Guerrilla Warfare
OCCASIONAL EARLY ADVENTURES
GUERRILLA IN THE WEST
GUERRILLA IN THE NORTH
THE CAPTURE OF LOCHMABEN
CHAPTER IV. The Deliverance of Scotland
CHAPTER V. Wallace Guardian of Scotland
CHAPTER VI. Wallace in France
CHAPTER VII. The Leadership of the Barons
CHAPTER VIII. The Betrayal and Death of Wallace
CHAPTER IX. The Patriot Hero
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Alexander Falconer Murison
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The Waverley Annalist states that in March 1291, on the day after Ascension, Edward declared to his nobles, in the presence of nine of the competitors, who at the same time submitted their claims to him, that he was resolved to subdue Scotland as he had recently subdued Wales. But Edward was now on the peaceful tack of legal process. The competitors, though mostly great Scots nobles, were also mostly the liegemen of Edward for large possessions in England; and not one of them could dare to claim the throne of Scotland without regard to Edward's opinion. It was quite inevitable that every one of them should submit to his judgment. Besides their material interests in England, they were of Norman descent and of Norman upbringing and Norman sympathies, and thus they were largely alien to the mass of the Scottish population. Their interest in Scotland was little, if anything, more than a matter of land and lordship. They were quite content to take the kingdom of Scotland as a bigger fief. It was therefore the most natural thing in the world for them to leave the decision of the case in the hands of their liege lord, the King of England. For the community of Scotland the question wore a wholly different aspect.
Edward had taken good care not to allow the matter to slumber through the winter. He had sent forth his commands to all the religious houses of the land, requiring them to search diligently in their chronicles, and to transmit to him speedily extracts of all such passages as might bear on the relations of England and Scotland. Such of these extracts as had come to hand, he caused to be recited before his Parliament assembled at Norham on May 10. By the mouth of his Justiciary, Sir Roger le Brabazon, he set forth his solicitude for the peace of Scotland and his anxiety to do justice to all, and required the Scots prelates and nobles to recognise his superiority and direct lordship—a claim affirmed to be 'clear, from chronicles found in different monasteries and other places in England and Scotland, from other sources of information, from certain documents, and on most evident reasons.' The Scots nobles present, although previously informed of Edward's intentions, represented their inability to reply without further consultation with nobles and others not then present. The meeting was adjourned till next day, when Bishop Bek, not Edward personally, announced that they might take three weeks, at the end of which time they would be expected to produce any evidence they might be able to find against the King's claim of superiority.
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