Sigillum Abbatis de Londoris Sigillum Abbatis de Newbotill Sigillum Abbatis de Cupro Sigillum Abbatis de Paslet Sigillum Abbatis de Dunfermelyn Sigillum Abbatis de Insula Missarum Sigillum Abbatis de Sancto Columba Sigillum Abbatis de Deer Sigillum Abbatis de Dulce Corde Sigillum Prioris de Coldinghame Sigillum Prioris de Rosty not Sigillum Prioris Sancte Andree Sigillum Prioris de Pettinwem Sigillum Prioris de Insula de Lochlevin Sigillum Senescalli Scocie Sigillum Willelmi Comitis de Ros Sigillum Gilberti de la Haya Constabularii Scocie Sigillum Roberti de Keth Mariscalli Scocie Sigillum Hugonis de Ros Sigillum Jacobi de Duglas Sigillum Johannis de Sancto Claro Sigillum Thome de Ros Sigillum Alexandri de Settone Sigillum Walteri Haliburtone Sigillum Davidis de Balfour Sigillum Duncani de Wallays Sigillum Thome de Dischingtone Sigillum Andree de Moravia Sigillum Ranulphi de Lyill Sigillum Normanni de Lesley Sigillum Nigelli de Campo bello NOTE C 2. Nor for De Argentine alone, Through Ninian's church these torches shone, And rose the death-prayer's awful tone. — p. 223. The remarkable circumstances attending the death of De Argentine have been already noticed. Besides this renowned warrior, there fell many representatives of the noblest houses in England, which never sustained a more bloody and disastrous defeat. Barbour says that two hundred pairs of gilded spurs were taken from the field of battle; and that some were left the author can bear witness, who has in his possession a curious antique spur, dug up in the morass, not long since. "It wes forsuth a gret ferly, To se samyn 1 sa fele dede lie. 1 am now to take my leave of Barbour, not without a sincere wish that the public may encourage the undertaking of my friend Doctor Jamieson, who has issued proposals for publishing an accurate edition of his poem, and of Blind Harry's Wallace. The only good edition of The Bruce was published by Mr. Pinkerton, in three volumes, in 1790; and, the learned editor having had no personal access to consult the manuscript, it is not without errors; and it has besides become scarce. Of Wallace there is no tolerable edition; yet these two poems do no small honour to the early state of Scottish poetry, and The Bruce is justly regarded as containing authentic historical facts. The following list of the slain at Bannockburn, extracted from the continuator of Trivet's Annals, will show the extent of the national calamity. 1 Together. Red, or gilded. 3 The extracts from Barbour in this edition of Sir Walter Scott's poems have been uniformly corrected by the text of Doctor Jamieson's Bruce, published, along with Blind Harry's Wallace, Edin. 1820, 2 vols. 4to. - ED. Thomas de Ferrers, John and Nicholas de King stone (brothers), William Lovel, Henry de Wileton, Baldwin de Frevill, John de Clivedon,1 Adomar la Zouche, John de Merewode, John Maufe,2 Thomas and Odo Lele Ercede kene, Robert Beaupel (the son), And in sum there were slain, along with the Earl of Gloucester, forty-two barons and bannerets. The number of earls, barons, and bannerets made captive, was twenty-two, and sixty-eight knights. Many clerks and esquires were also there slain or taken. Roger de Northburge, keeper of the king's signet (Custos Targiæ Domini Regis), was made prisoner with his two clerks, Roger de Wakenfelde and Thomas de Switon, upon which the king caused a seal to be made, and entitled it his privy seal, to distinguish the same from the signet so lost. The Earl of Hereford was exchanged against Bruce's queen, who had been detained in captivity ever since the year 1306. The Targia, or signet, was restored to England through the intercession of Ralph de Monthermer, ancestor of Lord Moira, who is said to have found favour in the eyes of the Scottish king. Continuation of Trivet's Annals, Hall's Edit. Oxford, 1712, vol. ii. p. 14. Such were the immediate consequences of the field of Bannockburn. Its more remote effects, in completely establishing the national independence of Scotland, afford a boundless field for speculation. EDITOR'S NOTES. CANTO I. VIII. Appendix, Note C.- "Lord of the Isles." As Scott himself remarks, there was no Ronald, Lord of the Isles, at this date. The lord (if any one then bore that title, which is doubtful) was Angus Og, who in 1303 (?) succeeded his brother, Alistair, both being sons of Angus Mor (died 1300), who had been a partisan of the eldest Bruce as early as 1288. Angus Og, himself, had been at one time of the English party, when Bruce was not putting forward his claims. Bruce's murder of Comyn caused a blood-feud between him and the Macdougals of Lorne and Argyll, but perhaps thereby rather knit closer the bonds between himself and Angus Og. Their alliance was never broken, and, though the Lords of the Isles were usually of the English faction, Angus led his Macdonalds and confederate Celts in Bruce's reserve at Bannockburn. A Scottish author of 1754 insists that the English never defeated the Lowland Scots, except when the Lowlanders had Highland aid, as at Flodden. Bannockburn disposes of this ungenerous taunt. In the Highland genealogy quoted by Scott, it is erroneously said that another Angus Og (bastard of John, the last real Lord of the Isles, who died in 1498) left his wife pregnant at the time of his murder, and that the child was Donald Dubh. The wife of this Angus Og was a daughter of Argyll's, and as to who really was the mother of Donald Dubh, sennachies know not. It seems certain that Atholl did kidnap some woman, whether the wife of Angus or not, who, when in Argyll's custody, became mother of Donald Dubh. But Angus Og was not then dead; he revenged himself terribly on Atholl. |