Robert Benton Seeley

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

I. BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS.

II. ACCESSION TO THE THRONE EDWARD'S EARLIEST PROCEEDINGS.

III. THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS.

IV. MIDDLE PERIOD OF EDWARD'S LIFE. A.D. 1279 - 1290.

V. RETROSPECTIVE VIEW.

VI. SCOTTISH AFFAIRS THE ARBITRATION THE WAR. A.D. 1291 - 1296.

VII. TROUBLES WITH FRANCE WAR IN SCOTLAND.

VIII. THE WAR WITH FRANCE, AND VARIOUS TROUBLES AT HOME, A.D. 1297.

IX. WILLIAM WALAYS, A.D. 1297, 1298.

X. PROLONGATION OF TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND PARLIAMENTARY DISCUSSIONS IN ENGLAND, A.D. 1299 - 1302.

XI. THE DISAFFORESTING QUESTION THE COMMISSION OF TRAILBASTON, ETC., ETC., A.D. 1299 - 1305.

XII. THE SETTLEMENT OF SCOTLAND, A.D. 1303 - 1305.

XIII. BRUCE'S REBELLION: THE WAR WHICH FOLLOWED. THE DEATH OF EDWARD: HIS CHARACTER.

APPENDIX.

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber’s Note:

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THE LIFE AND REIGN OF EDWARD I.

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