[149] Halliwell’s Royal Letters, vol. i., p. 22.
[150] Chalmers’ Caledonia, vol. i., p. 671.
[151] Chambers, in his “Lives of Eminent Scotsmen,” says: “John Comyn was the son of Margery, the sister of Baliol, and, setting Baliol aside, was the heir of the pretensions of their common ancestor.”
[152] Tytler, vol. i., p. 213.
[153] Macpherson’s Chronykyl of Andrew Wyntoun, vol. ii., p. 501.
[154] Barbour, i., 590; Wyntoun, viii., 18.
[155] Barbour i., 647.
[156] Lingard, vol. ii., p. 615.
[157] Sharon Turner says, “On every supposition, it was still the destruction of a competitor by the person who was to be most benefited by the crime; and from this suspicious atrocity the memory of Bruce cannot be vindicated.”
[158] Palgrave’s Documents, p. cxxxix.