![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Disgusted alike at the facility with which the sovereign of a warlike nation could resign his people and his crown into the hands of a treacherous invader, and at the pusillanimity of the nobles who had ratified the sacrifice, William Wallace retired to the glen of Ellerslie. He seized Berwick by stratagem laid the country in ashes and, on the field of Dunbar, forced the Scottish king and his nobles to acknowledge him their liege lord.īut while the courts of Edward, or of his representatives, were crowded by the humbled Scots, the spirit of one brave man remained unsubdued. Prior to this act of vassalage, Edward I., King of England, had entered Scotland at the head of an immense army. Such were the hopes of those Scottish noblemen who, early in the preceding spring, had signed the bond of submission to a ruthless conqueror, purchasing life at the price of all that makes life estimable-liberty and honor. ![]() Ambition seemed satiated and the vanquished, after having passed under the yoke of their enemy, concluded they might wear their chains in peace. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end. Stirling Castle and Council Hallīright was the summer of 1296. The Bower, or Ladies’ ApartmentĬhapter 39. Cartlane Craigs, and GlenfinlassĬhapter 38. This online edition was created and published by Global Grey on the 27th August 2022.Ĭhapter 18. ![]()
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