King Robert the Bruce

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE ANCESTRY OF BRUCE

CHAPTER II OPPORTUNIST VACILLATION

CHAPTER III THE CORONATION OF BRUCE

CHAPTER IV DEFEAT AND DISASTER: METHVEN AND KILDRUMMY

CHAPTER V THE KING IN EXILE

CHAPTER VI THE TURN OF THE TIDE

CHAPTER VII RECONQUEST OF TERRITORY

CHAPTER VIII RECOVERY OF FORTRESSES

CHAPTER IX THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN.

CHAPTER X INVASION OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND

CHAPTER XI CONCILIATION AMID CONFLICT

CHAPTER XII PEACE AT THE SWORD'S POINT

CHAPTER XIII THE HEART OF THE BRUCE

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Notes

FAMOUS SCOTS SERIES

The following Volumes are now ready:—

  • THOMAS CARLYLE. By Hector C. Macpherson.
  • ALLAN RAMSAY. By Oliphant Smeaton.
  • HUGH MILLER. By W. Keith Leask.
  • JOHN KNOX. By A. Taylor Innes.
  • ROBERT BURNS. By Gabriel Setoun.
  • THE BALLADISTS. By John Geddie.
  • RICHARD CAMERON. By Professor Herkless.
  • SIR JAMES Y. SIMPSON. By Eve Blantyre Simpson.
  • THOMAS CHALMERS. By Professor W. Garden Blaikie.
  • JAMES BOSWELL. By W. Keith Leask.
  • TOBIAS SMOLLETT. By Oliphant Smeaton.
  • FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. By G. W. T. Omond.
  • THE "BLACKWOOD" GROUP. By Sir George Douglas.
  • NORMAN MACLEOD. By John Wellwood.
  • SIR WALTER SCOTT. By Professor Saintsbury.
  • KIRKCALDY OF GRANGE. By Louis A. BarbÉ.
  • ROBERT FERGUSSON. By A. B. Grosart.
  • JAMES THOMSON. By William Bayne.
  • MUNGO PARK. By T. Banks Maclachlan.
  • DAVID HUME. By Professor Calderwood.
  • WILLIAM DUNBAR. By Oliphant Smeaton.
  • SIR WILLIAM WALLACE. By Professor Murison.
  • ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. By Margaret Moyes Black.
  • THOMAS REID. By Professor Campbell Fraser.
  • POLLOK AND AYTOUN. By Rosaline Masson.
  • ADAM SMITH. By Hector C. Macpherson.
  • ANDREW MELVILLE. By William Morison.
  • JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER. By E. S. Haldane.
  • KING ROBERT THE BRUCE. By A. F. Murison.

Title Page

KING ROBERT
THE BRUCE

BY
A. F.
MURISON

FAMOUS
SCOTS
SERIES

PUBLISHED BY
OLIPHANT ANDERSON
& FERRIER · EDINBURGH
AND LONDON


The designs and ornaments of this
volume are by Mr Joseph Brown,
and the printing from the press of
Messrs Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh.

July 1899.


ALMAE MATRI
VNIVERSITATI ABERDONENSI


"O, ne'er shall the fame of the patriot decay—
De Bruce! in thy name still our country rejoices;
It thrills Scottish heart-strings, it swells Scottish voices,
As it did when the Bannock ran red from the fray.
Thine ashes in darkness and silence may lie;
But ne'er, mighty hero, while earth hath its motion,
While rises the day-star, or rolls forth the ocean,
Can thy deeds be eclipsed or their memory die:
They stand thy proud monument, sculptur'd sublime
By the chisel of Fame on the Tablet of Time."

∆.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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