LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE. CONSTABLE’S MISCELLANY OF Original and Selected Publications IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, & THE ARTS. VOL. LIV. LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, VOL. II. [Illustration: G. F. Sargent. W. Archibald Jun^r Page 18.] EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE & C^o. EDINBURGH. AND HURST, CHANCE, & C^o. LONDON. 1830. LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, OF ELDERSLIE. BY JOHN D. CARRICK. THE BUGLE NE’ER SUNG TO A BRAVER KNIGHT THAN WILLIAM OF ELDERSLIE. THOMAS CAMPBELL. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE AND CO.; AND HURST, CHANCE, AND CO., LONDON. 1830. CONTENTS. Page CHAP. I. Wallace appointed Guardian of the Kingdom.--Invades England. --Inroad of De Clifford on the South of Scotland 9 CHAP. II. Wallace returns to Scotland.--Envied by the Nobility.--Edward lands in England.--Wallace meets his Army at Stanmore.--Battle of Blackironside.--Legality of Wallace’s Regency.--Edward Invades Scotland.--Treachery of two Scottish Noblemen 22 CHAP. III. The English Army advance to Linlithgow.--Battle of Falkirk, from the Accounts given by English and Scottish Writers.-- Miscellaneous Transactions 36 CHAP. IV. Notices respecting Sir John Graham and Sir John Stewart.--Conduct of Cumyn.--Wallace resigns the Guardianship.--Edward returns home.--Triumphant Procession of the Londoners in honour of his Victory at Falkirk.--Review of the Campaign 61 CHAP. V. State of Scotland after the Return of Edward.--Opinion of an English Spy on the Strength of that Fortress.--Various Exploits of Wallace.--Edward sends Supplies to the Garrison of Stirling. --List of Articles sent.--Baliol delivered over to the Pope.-- The Scots besiege Stirling Castle.--Edward raises an Army for its Relief.--The English Barons Refuse to accompany him.-- Surrender of Stirling Castle.--Conduct of Cumyn 74 CHAP. VI. Edward again invades Scotland.--Siege of Carlaverock.-- Miscellaneous Occurrences during the Siege 85 CHAP. VII. Winchelsea, Archbishop of Canterbury, reads a Bull from the Pope, in the English Camp before Carlaverock.--Edward’s Answer.--Earl Warren advances to Irvine.--Cruelty of the English at Lesmahago.--Edward agrees to a Truce.--Wallace visits France.--Captures a French Pirate.--Notices of Longueville 98 CHAP. VIII. Edward again Invades Scotland.--Sir Simon Frazer deserts the English, and joins his Countrymen.--Wallace returns to Scotland.--Battle of Roslin 112 CHAP. IX.