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The Life of Sir William Wallace, the Governor General of Scotland, and Hero of the Scottish Chiefs - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...of the country. HOSTILITIES RECOMMENCED. Wallace burns the barns of dyre, drives Bishop Beck from Glasgoio, and kills Lord Piercy. Good Wallace thus concluded a truce for one whole year with his treacherous enemies; but ere one month had elapsed, they plotted the ruin of the Scottish warriors, and determined, by awful murder, to enchain the country. The King of England proceeded to Scotland and held a council at Carlisle, of his captains, in June, 1297 No Scot was there except the traitor, Sir Aymer de Vallance, who had deserted their cause in former times. In this council they consulted how they might cut off all the Barons of Ayre, and thereby involve the invincible Wallace in the general mas sacre. Sir Amyerde Vallance, deeply versed in the mysteries of Pluto, proposed a scheme to ensnare the chiefs of Scotland, and involve their lives; a plot which hell could never have contrived; an advice, which belzebub could not have given, that will ever stamp the character of consenting Southerons with everlasting infamy. He advised them to appropriate the four barns of Ayre for a Justice Ayre or general council of the Scottish Barons, to call them all to it, under the pretence of settling the affairs of the nation on receiving a schedule of their estates, that quiet possession might be granted them under the great seal ui Lord Aymer de Vallance, the Deputy Warden o Scotland, who had just arrived at Ayre, and there to despatch them as they entered one by one, into the barns. Lord Arnulf, a cruel and bloody justice to whom Hell could not produce a match, undertook to dispatch the Scottish Nobles, in the bloody Barns of Ayre. Sir Ronald Crawford went to Ayre, and dreading no harm entered the Barns, where the pretended Council sat; and on the 18th...
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Peter Donaldson is a lecturer in modern British history at the University of Kent.
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230435492
- ISBN 13 9781230435497
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages36
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