around his person five hundred men-at-arms, and, avoiding the field of battle and the victorious army, fled towards Linlithgow, pursued by Douglas with about sixty horse. They were augmented by Sir Lawrence Abernethy with twenty more, whom Douglas met in the Torwood upon their way to join the English army, and whom he easily persuaded to desert the defeated monarch, and to assist in the pursuit. They hung upon Edward's flight as far as Dunbar, too few in number to assail him with effect, but enough to harass his retreat so constantly, that whoever fell an instant behind was instantly slain, or made prisoner. Edward's ignominious flight terminated at Dunbar, where the Earl of March, who still professed allegiance to him, "received him full gently." From thence, the monarch of so great an empire, and the late commander of so gallant and numerous an army, escaped to Bamborough in a fishing vessel. Bruce, as will appear from the following document, lost no time in directing the thunders of parliamentary censure against such part of his subjects as did not return to their natural allegiance after the battle of Bannockburn. APUD MONASTERIUM DE CAMBUSKENNETH, VI DIE NOVEMBRIS, M,CCC,XIV. Judicium Reditum apud Kambuskinet contra omnes illos qui tunc fuerunt contra fidem et pacem Domini Regis. Anno gracie millesimo tricentisimo quarto decimo sexto die Novembris tenente parliamentum suum Excellentissimo principe Domino Roberto Dei gracia Rege Scottorum Illustri in monasterio de Cambuskyneth concordatum fuit finaliter Judicatum [ac super] hoc statutum de Concilio et Assensu Episcoporum et ceterorum Prelatorum Comitum Baronum et aliorum nobilium regni Scocie nec non et tocius communitatis regni predicti quod omnes qui contra fidem et pacem dicti domini regis in bello seu alibi mortui sunt [vel qui dic] to die ad pacem ejus et fidem non venerant licet sepius vocati et legitime expectati fuissent de terris et tenementis et omni alio statu infra regnum Scocie perpetuo sint exheredati et habeantur de cetero tanquam inimici Regis et Regni ab omni vendicacione juris hereditarii vel juris alterius cujuscunque in posterum pro se et heredibus suis in perpetuum privati Ad perpetuam igitur rei memoriam et evidentem probacionem hujus Judicii et Statuti sigilla Episcoporum et aliorum Prelatorum nec non et comitum Baronum ac ceterorum nobilium dicti Regni presenti ordinacioni Judicio et statuto sunt appensa. Sigillum Domini Regis Sigillum Willelmi Episcopi Sancti Andree Sigillum Roberti Episcopi Glascuensis Sigillum Willelmi Episcopi Dunkeldensis Episcopi Episcopi Episcopi . Sigillum Alani Episcopi Sodorensis Sigillum Johannis Episcopi Brechynensis Sigillum Abbatis de Calco Sigillum Abbatis de Abirbrothok Sigillum Abbatis de Sancta Cruce 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 Deer Sigillum Abbatis de Dulce Corde Sigillum Prioris de Coldinghame Sigillum Prioris de Rostynot 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 NOTE C 2. Nor for De Argentine alone, Through Ninian's church these torches shone, And rose the death-prayer's awful tone.-P. 219. The remarkable circumstances attending the death of De Argentine have been already noticed (p. 51.) 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 an tique spur, dug up in the morass, not long since. "It wes forsuth a gret ferly, To se samyn' sa fele dede lie. War tane of knichtis that war deid." I am now to take my leave of Barbour, not without a sincere wish that the public may encourage the undertaking of my friend Together. Red, or gilded. Dr. 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 3 vols., 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. LIST OF THE SLAIN. Barons and Knights Bannerets. Simon Ward, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Glou- Robert de Felton, -cester, Robert de Clifford, Payan Tybetot, William Le Mareschal, John Comyn, John Lovel, (the rich,) Barons and Baronets. Michael Poyning, Edmund Maulley. Knights. Radulph de Beauchamp, With thirty-three others of the PRISONERS. Henry de Boun, Earl of Hereford, Marmaduke de Twenge, Lord John Giffard, William de Latimer, Maurice de Berkley, Ingelram de Umfraville, John de Wyletone, Robert de Maulee, Henry Fitz-Hugh, Thomas de Gray, Walter de Beauchamp, *[The extracts from Barbour in this edition of Sir Walter Scott's poems have been uniformly corrected by the text of Dr. Jamieson's Bruce, published, along with Blind Harry's Wallace, Edin. 1820. 2 vols. 4to. — ED.] Richard de Charon, Thomas de Berkeley, John Bluwet, Roger Corbet, Gilbert de Boun, Bartholomew de Enefeld, Radulph and Thomas Bottetort, Henry de Wileton, John de Merewode, John Maufe, 2 Thomas and Odo Lele Ercede kene, Robert Beaupel, (the son,) And in sum there were there 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 sixtyeight 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. 1 Supposed Clinton. 2 Maule. END OF NOTES TO THE LORD OF THE ISLES. |