Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 54 — Chapter IX · SECOND VISIT OF WALLACE TO THE FRENCH COURT.—ENCOUNTERS AN ENGLISH PIRATE.—THE ENGLISH AGAIN ENTER SCOTLAND.—SUBMISSION OF 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.

Reading edition

In Dr Jamieson’s edition of Blind Harry, this circumstance is thus printed:—

“Bot maister Blayr spak nothing off himsell, In deid off armes quhat awentur he fell. Schir Thomas Gray, was than preyst to Wallace, Put in the buk how than hapnyt this cace At Blayr was in, [and] mony worthi deid, Off quhilk him selff had no plesance to reid.” B. x. 893–898.

Return to CHAPTER IX. SECOND VISIT OF WALLACE TO THE FRENCH COURT.—ENCOUNTERS AN ENGLISH PIRATE.—THE ENGLISH AGAIN ENTER SCOTLAND.—SUBMISSION OF 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.