Note 174 — XIII. BRUCE’S REBELLION: THE WAR WHICH FOLLOWED.—THE DEATH OF EDWARD: HIS CHARACTER.
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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.