Note 182 — XIII. BRUCE’S REBELLION: THE WAR WHICH FOLLOWED.—THE DEATH OF EDWARD: HIS CHARACTER.

During the last thirty years a dozen Histories of England have been published in London, all of which servilely followed Hume, describing Edward as “unscrupulous,” “perfidious,” and “unprincipled.” But in the course of the last seven years, all the writers whom we have just quoted have re‐examined the subject, and they all unite in declaring the king to have been honest, just, truthful, and disinterested.