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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to Books XI and X -- The Manuscripts -- Content and Sources -- Methods of Editing -- Lists of Abbreviations -- I. Sigla -- II. Words -- III. Names of Counties -- IV. Publications -- Scotichronicon - Volume 6 -- Book XI -- 1. The appointment and rule of the guardians of Scotland after the death of the king -- 2. Discussion of the rights of John de Balliol and Robert Bruce -- 3. What follows shows how the king of England had the Scots summoned deceitfully -- 4. The substance of the misleading proposition of the Lord Edward king of England sent to France concerning the succession to the kingdom of the Scots -- 5. The same topic and how the king presented the case unjustly and falsely -- 6. The same topic -- 7. The same topic -- 8. The decision of the following [consultant] supports King Robert -- 9. Still the same topic -- 10. King Edward's subtlety and malice, and the appointment of a jury to proceed on the matter of the right to the kingdom -- 11. How the king was advised not to pronounce judgment on the right to the throne of Scotland without that country's subjection -- 12. So that the rights of Bruce and Balliol may be more fully understood, a brief account of the kings of Scotland follows -- 13. The daughters of David de Huntingdon -- 14. Still about the progeny of Earl David and the daughters of St Margaret and their issue -- 15. The events and proceedings leading to the deprivation of Macduff, brother of the earl of Fife -- 16. The terms of the treaty -- 17. The same -- 18. How King John retracted the homage done to the king of England. The process of his deposition -- 19. Division is the most harmful thing in a kingdom -- 20. The taking of the town of Berwick and the deception of the English. |
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21. The expulsion of English beneficed clergy and others from the kingdom of Scotland -- 22. How King Robert conferred the priory of Coldingham on the monastery of Dunfermline -- 23. The monks of Durham ought not to be in Coldingham -- 24. Despite these circumstances, he was accepted as prior etc. -- 25. The supporters of John de Balliol and Robert de Bruce, and the answer of the king of England to Robert Bruce -- 26. The capture of King John and the resignation of the kingdom into the hands of the king of England -- 27. How the community of Scotland performed homage to the king of England and the magnates took an oath to protect the kingdom -- 28. The origins and beginnings of William Wallace -- 29. How he destroyed Northumbria -- 30. How William the guardian of Scotland routed and vanquished the English without a battle -- 31. The plot conceived by the magnates against the guardian -- 34. The battle of Falkirk and other matters -- 35. The truce granted to the community of Scotland at the instance of the king of France -- and the sending of envoys to the Roman Court -- 36. A copy of a letter sent by the lord pope to the archbishop of Canterbury -- 37. A copy of the papal letter presented to the king by the archbishop of Canterbury -- 38. The same -- 39. There follows an answer of a kind to the said letter from the pope composed by the barons of England -- 40. The reply sent by the king of England to the lord pope setting out the rights which he claims in the kingdom of Scotland -- 41. The same charges -- 42. The same fiction and false charges -- 43. Still the same -- 44. Copies of various letters sent to the Lord Boniface VIII by the said King Edward to cloak the deceit on his part against the Scots -- 45. A copy of a second letter of the said Gregory sent to the pope by the king of England. |
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46. The proctors at the curia sent the said copies to the kingdom. After taking advice the Scots sent back to the same men the following instructions -- 47. The instructions etc. follow -- 48. The same -- 49. Still the same -- 50. The same -- 51. The same -- 52. The same -- 53. The same -- 54. Still the same -- 55. The same -- 56. The same -- 57. Here begins Baldred's pleading against the fictions of the king of England -- 58. The same pleading -- 59. The same -- 60. The same -- 61. The same -- 62. The same -- 63. The same -- 64. The same -- Notes for Book XI -- Book XII -- 1. How John Comyn and Simon Fraser played a manful part -- 2. The battle of Roslin, where the forces of the English were defeated three times in one day -- 3. How the king of England, after traversing the lowlands and mountains of Scotland, received the community into his peace, and nearly all the magnates except William Wallace -- 4. How the king besieged the castle of Stirling. The first beginnings of Robert Bruce -- 5. The agreement between Bruce and Comyn, and the accusation made against Bruce to the king of England by Comyn -- 6. The accusation [against Bruce] and his escape -- 7. The killing of Sir John Comyn by Robert Bruce -- 8. The treachery of John Menteith, the death of William Wallace and the tyranny of King Edward -- 9. The coronation of King Robert de Bruce -- 10. How he sent to the Roman Curia for absolution from the excommunication which he incurred in the church for the death of John Comyn -- 11. The battles of Methven and Dalry and the various tribulations of the king -- 12. For the wise man no fortune is evil and unrelenting toil conquers all things -- 13. The rout at Slioch and the death of the tyrant Edward -- 14. How William Bannister, terrified by a vision of the king, came to reject the world -- 15. The resemblance between false worldly honour and a horse. |
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16. After the death of the tyrant and the coronation of his son, Robert began to revive and achieve results -- 17. The rout at Inverurie and other matters -- 18. The king's struggle against the men of Argyll, and the capture of Perth -- 19. The capture of various castles and of Roxburgh -- 20. The complete victory at Bannockburn where the English were vanquished -- 21. Some verses on the battle of Bannockburn -- 22. The ostentatious advance of the king of England to Bannockburn -- 23. The noble poet and his poem -- 24. The tailzie of King Robert -- 25. The king's brother is chosen to be king of Ireland, and the bishop of Dunkeld -- 26. The letter sent to the lord pope by the Irish -- 27. The same topic -- 28. The same topic -- 29. The same topic -- 30. The same topic -- 31. The same topic -- 32. The same topic -- 33. Copy of the bull sent by Pope Adrian to King Henry II of England -- 34. The nature of Ireland and what it contains -- 35. Wild beasts and their natures -- 36. The same topic -- 37. The capture of Berwick and the battle of Dundalk -- Notes for Book XII -- Index. |
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Watt, D.E.R.
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9781788852968 (electronic bk.) |
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9781912476985 |
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