Note 117 — XII. THE SETTLEMENT OF SCOTLAND, A.D. 1303–1305.

The Scottish historians, who wrote a century after, claim the victory in all three engagements; but Hemingford and Trivet, who wrote at the time, distinctly declare that Neville repulsed the Scotch, and recovered many of the prisoners. Hume and Tytler, as Scotchmen, give credit to their own chroniclers; and yet they are uncandid enough to profess to take their accounts from Hemingford and Trivet. But these latter writers, who are the only contemporary witnesses, plainly assert that the advantage, in the third engagement, rested with the English.