The History of Scotland, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1837 |
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Alexander Alexander III Argyleshire arms barons battle Berwick betwixt bishop Britons brother Buchan Caledonians called castle Celtic CHAP character chief church claim commanded conquest court crown David death defeated defence descent Donald Bane Douglas Dunbar Duncan earl Edinburgh enemy English army English monarch estates favour feudal firth force Galloway Galwegians garrison Henry historians homage honour horse independence inhabitants invaders James John Baliol John Comyn Kenneth Macalpine king Edward king of England king of Scots king's kingdom kingdom of Scotland knight land lord Lothian Macbeth Malcolm Cean-mohr Malcolm II March Margaret men at arms Moray nation native nobles Normans northern Northumberland peace person Picts pope possession prince prisoner provinces Queen Randolph reign rendered retreat Robert Bruce Romans royal Saint Saxons Scotland Scottish army Scottish king seems slain soldiers sovereign Stirling Strath-Clyde success surrender throne took treaty treaty of Falaise tribes truce vassal victory Wallace William
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Page 18 - It might be added, that early authorities show us no such persons as Banquo and his son Fleance, nor have we reason to think that the latter ever fled further from Macbeth than across the flat scene, according to the stage direction Neither were Banquo or his son ancestors of the house of Stuart.
Page 18 - Scotland, seems, in process of time, to have soured the temper of Macbeth, and rendered him formidable to his nobility. Against Macduff, in particular, the powerful Maormor of Fife, he had uttered some threats which occasioned that chief to fly from the court of Scotland. Urged by this new counsellor, Siward, the Danish Earl of Northumberland, invaded Scotland in the year 1054, displaying his banner in behalf of the banished Malcolm. Macbeth engaged the foe in the neighbourhood of his celebrated...
Page 9 - Rome had colonized were exposed by the retreat of those who were at once their masters and protectors, and these two fierce races inhabited the greater part of the country now called Scotland. The...
Page 169 - Ah, freedom is a noble thing; Freedom makes men to have liking. To man all solace Freedom gives: He lives at ease who freely lives; And he that aye has lived free, May not well know the misery, The wrath, the hate, the spite, and all That's compass'd in the name of thrall.
Page 164 - When he found his end drew nigh, that great king summoned his barons and peers around him, and affectionately recommended his son to their care, then singling out the good Lord James of Douglas, fondly entreated...
Page 165 - ... to the cruelty of the native Irish. Robert Bruce's personal accomplishments in war stood so high, that he was universally esteemed one of the three best knights of Europe during that martial age, and gave many proofs of personal prowess. His achievements seem amply to vindicate this high estimation, since the three Highlanders slain in the retreat from Dairy, and Sir Henry de Bohun killed by his hand in front of the English army, evince the valorous knight, as the plans of his campaigns exhibit...
Page 78 - ... kingdom that still held out. But the courage of the guardians altogether gave way; they set the example of submission, and such of them as had been most obstinate in what the English king called rebellion, were punished by various degrees of fine and banishment. With respect to sir William Wallace, it was agreed that he might have the choice of surrendering himself unconditionally to the king's pleasure, provided he thought proper to do so; a stipulation which, as it signified nothing in...
Page 17 - Scottish chronicles of Holinshed, adorned it with a lustre similar to that with which a level beam of the sun often invests some fragment of glass, which, though shining at a distance with the lustre of a diamond, is by a near investigation discovered to be of no worth or estimation.
Page 77 - The pope in the same document took the claim of Edward to the Scottish crown under his own discussion, and authoritatively commanded Edward I to send proctors to Rome, to plead his cause before his holiness. This magisterial requisition was presented by the archbishop of Canterbury to the king, in the presence of the council and court, the prelate at the same time warning the sovereign to yield unreserved obedience since Jerusalem would not fail to protect her citizens, and Mount Zion her worshippers....
Page 18 - ... better than that of Duncan. As a king, the tyrant so much exclaimed against was, in reality, a firm, just, and equitable prince. Apprehensions of danger from a party which Malcolm, the eldest son of the slaughtered Duncan, had set on foot in Northumberland, and still maintained in Scotland, seems, in process of time, to have soured the temper of Macbeth, and rendered him formidable to his nobility.