[169] Wallace Documents, Maitland Club, Glasgow, 1841, p. 48.
[170] History of Scotland, vol. i., p. 68.
[171] Robert III. died of a broken heart; James I. was murdered; James II. accidentally killed; James III. murdered; James IV. died on Flodden‐field; James V. of a broken heart. Then followed Mary, who died on the scaffold, James’s troubled reign, Charles’s bloody death, and, finally, the expulsion of the family.
[172] Rossetti’s translation.
[173] Rapin’s History, vol. i., p. 385.
[174] Thus, in the most popular of our school histories, Mrs. Markham’s, the scholar is told of Edward’s “violent acts,” of his fatal thirst of conquest, of his “mad ferocity,” of his “injustice and violence,” of the “infinite misery” he inflicted on “many thousands” of people.
[175] “The Greatest of the Plantagenets.”
[176] The professor had suggested some apology for Wallace’s violence and cruelty.
[177] “Proceedings of Oxford Historical Society, Trinity term, 1864.”
[178] Prof. Stubbs’ Select Charters, 1870, p. 35, 51.