[69] Nor can we, in this instance, attempt to divide the credit between the king and his able chancellor. Robert Burnel had been taken from his side, by death, in October, 1292.
[70] Macaulay, vol. i., p. 17.
[71] Wyntoun, the Scottish chronicler, says—
“Of these they saved never a man,
For prisoners in such awhile,
To kepe is dowte and grete perille.”
[72] Peter Langtoft writes—
“What then did Sir Edward? Peer he had none like;
Upon his steed Bayard first he won the dike.”