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  LIFE
  OF
  SIR WILLIAM WALLACE.




  CONSTABLE’S MISCELLANY
  OF
  Original and Selected Publications

  IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS
  OF
  LITERATURE, SCIENCE, & THE ARTS.

  VOL. LIV.

  LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, VOL. II.

[Illustration:
  G. F. Sargent.      W. Archibald Jun^r

Page 18.]


  EDINBURGH:
  PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE & C^o. EDINBURGH.
  AND HURST, CHANCE, & C^o. LONDON.
  1830.




  LIFE
  OF
  SIR WILLIAM WALLACE,
  OF
  ELDERSLIE.

  BY JOHN D. CARRICK.


  THE BUGLE NE’ER SUNG TO A BRAVER KNIGHT
  THAN WILLIAM OF ELDERSLIE.
                          THOMAS CAMPBELL.


  IN TWO VOLUMES.


  VOL. II.

  EDINBURGH:
  PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE AND CO.;
  AND HURST, CHANCE, AND CO., LONDON.

  1830.




CONTENTS.


                                                                    Page
  CHAP. I.

  Wallace appointed Guardian of the Kingdom.--Invades England.
    --Inroad of De Clifford on the South of Scotland                   9


  CHAP. II.

  Wallace returns to Scotland.--Envied by the Nobility.--Edward
    lands in England.--Wallace meets his Army at Stanmore.--Battle
    of Blackironside.--Legality of Wallace’s Regency.--Edward
    Invades Scotland.--Treachery of two Scottish Noblemen             22


  CHAP. III.

  The English Army advance to Linlithgow.--Battle of Falkirk,
    from the Accounts given by English and Scottish Writers.--
    Miscellaneous Transactions                                        36


  CHAP. IV.

  Notices respecting Sir John Graham and Sir John Stewart.--Conduct
    of Cumyn.--Wallace resigns the Guardianship.--Edward returns
    home.--Triumphant Procession of the Londoners in honour of his
    Victory at Falkirk.--Review of the Campaign                       61


  CHAP. V.

  State of Scotland after the Return of Edward.--Opinion of an
    English Spy on the Strength of that Fortress.--Various Exploits
    of Wallace.--Edward sends Supplies to the Garrison of Stirling.
    --List of Articles sent.--Baliol delivered over to the Pope.--
    The Scots besiege Stirling Castle.--Edward raises an Army for
    its Relief.--The English Barons Refuse to accompany him.--
    Surrender of Stirling Castle.--Conduct of Cumyn                   74


  CHAP. VI.

  Edward again invades Scotland.--Siege of Carlaverock.--
    Miscellaneous Occurrences during the Siege                        85


  CHAP. VII.

  Winchelsea, Archbishop of Canterbury, reads a Bull from the
    Pope, in the English Camp before Carlaverock.--Edward’s
    Answer.--Earl Warren advances to Irvine.--Cruelty of the
    English at Lesmahago.--Edward agrees to a Truce.--Wallace
    visits France.--Captures a French Pirate.--Notices of
    Longueville                                                       98


  CHAP. VIII.

  Edward again Invades Scotland.--Sir Simon Frazer deserts the
    English, and joins his Countrymen.--Wallace returns to
    Scotland.--Battle of Roslin                                      112


  CHAP. IX.

  Second Visit of Wallace to the French Court.--Encounters an
    English Pirate.--The English again enter Scotland.--Submission
    to the Nobles.--Wallace returns.--Conflicts with the English.--
    Edward destroys and carries off the Records of the Monasteries.
    --Marches through the Country.--Wallace follows the Invaders     116


  CHAP. X.

  Edward’s Policy respecting the Settlement of Scotland.--
    Endeavours to gain Wallace to his Interest.--Siege of Stirling.
    --It Surrenders.--Conduct of Edward towards the Prisoners.--
    Haliburton undertakes to betray Wallace                          132


  CHAP. XI.

  State of the Country.--Bruce invited to take the Crown--Conduct
    of Cum