Note 24 — IV. MIDDLE PERIOD OF EDWARD’S LIFE. A.D. 1279–1290.

“Seldom,” says Mr. Pearson, “has a shameful and violent death been better merited than by a double‐dyed traitor like David, false by turns to his country and his king; nor could justice be better honoured than by making the last penalty of rebellion fall upon the guilty prince, rather than on his followers.”—“History of England,” vol. ii., p. 330.