The Bruce

Barbour

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Barbour · 113 chapters

Quotes from this book

• Bot othir wayis all yheid the gle.

• “Throw hym I trow my land to wyn, “Magre the Clyffurd and his kyn.”

Chapters

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• Book VI.Sample
• Here Galloway Men seek him.
• Here he fights alone against Two Hundred.
• Here Sir Aymer and John of Lorn follow King Robert with a Sleuth-hound.
• Here Five Chosen Men are sent to take the King.
• How John of Lorn sought the Good King Robert Bruce with the Sleuth-hound.
• Here the Sleuth-hound lost his Scent.
• Or else he was Slain with an Arrow.
• How the Three Men that bare the Wedder Sheep thought to have slain King Robert Bruce.
• Here Three Traitours meet the King, with a Wedder.
• Here he slew the three traitors.
• Here the King goes to his Tryst.
• Here the King and his Company come hastily upon their Enemies, and slay Many.
• Here the King meets three Traitors.
• Here Sir Aymer sets the King in Great Jeopardy.
• How Sir Aymer Valence sent the Woman to spy King Robert in Glentrool.
• Here were Fifteen Hundred discomfited with Few Scots.
• Book VIII.
• Here Sir Aymer urges a Fight on the Plain.
• Here King Robert provides for Advantage in the Place where they should Fight.
• Here Sir Aymer comes with his Host in Sight.
• Here King Robert meets him with Few.
• Here King Robert wins in Plain Battle.
• How the Good King Robert the Bruce passed North beyond the Mounth.
• Here Sir James wins Many Men, and makes First a Train on the Castle.
• How Good King Robert lay Sick in Inverury.
• Here the Earl of Buchan gathers against the King.
• Here the Earl of Buchan flies, and Sir David Brechin yields himself to the King.
• Here the King burns all Buchan, and gets the Castle of Forfar and destroys it.
• How Good King Robert the Bruce besieged the Town of Perth.
• Here he gets it with Jeopardy.
• Here All Scots obey the King except Lorn.
• Here Sir Edward Bruce is much commended.
• Here Sir Edward Bruce discomfits the Englishmen at Cree.
• Here he discomfits far more manfully, that is to say, Fifteen Hundred with Fifty.
• Sir Edward Bruce in a Year won Thirteen Castles.
• Here Sir James Douglas meets with Sir Alexander Stewart, Lord Bonkill.
• Here Sir James Douglas comes to the King with Sir Alexander Stewart and Thomas Randolph.
• Here the King passes against John of Lorn.
• Here the King meets with John of Lorn’s Company.
• How Earl Thomas Randolph became Man to the Good King Robert the Bruce.
• The winning of the Castle of Roxburgh by the Douglas through the Sleight of John Ledhouse.
• Here Sir Thomas Randolph besieges Edinburgh.
• Book XI.
• The winning of Stirling by Sir Edward the Bruce, though the Battle was set over a Year and a Day, betwixt him and Sir Philip the Mowbray.
• How good James of Douglas asked of King Robert the Bruce Leave to go to support Earl Thomas Randolph.
• Book XII.
• The Battle of Bannockburn.
• Book XIII.
• How Good Douglas chased the King of England after the Battles of Bannockburn.
• How the Earl of Carrick passed into Ireland to win it, and with him Earl Thomas Randolph and Sir Philip the Mowbray, Sir John Stewart, Sir John Soulis, and Ramsay of Ochterhouse.
• The Withletting of the Pass of Endnellan
• Book XV.
• How the King of Ireland called Edward came upon the Scotsmen
• How King Robert Bruce passed through the Tarbats, and won the Isles.
• The Battle betwixt the Lord Douglas and the Lord Nevill of England.
• Book XVI.
• How the Good Douglas slew the Earl Richmond of England.
• How Good King Robert the Bruce came Home again from Ireland.
• The Winning of the Town of Berwick by the Scots Men, through the Means of Sim of Spalding.
• How Walter Stewart was assailed in Berwick by the King of England.
• How Sir Edward the Bruce was slain in Ireland.
• How King Edward came again to Scotland with his Power, to Edinburgh, after the Death of Good Sir Edward the Bruce in Ireland.
• How the Good King Robert the Bruce followed King Edward of England South into his own Land.
• How the Lord Soulis thought through Treason with his Accomplices to have put down Good King Robert the Bruce, and how he was warned by a Lady.
• The Death of Good Sir Walter Steward.
• How the Fox played with the Fisher.
• How Good King Robert the Bruce crowned his Young Son David and Dame Johann, his Spouse.
• Death of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland.
• Book I.
• Book II.
• Book III.
• Book IV.
• Book V.
• Book VI.
• Book VII.
• Book VIII.
• Book IX.
• Book X.
• Book XI.
• Book XII.
• Book XIII.
• Book XIV.
• Book XV.
• Book XVI.
• Book XVII.
• Book XVIII.
• Book XIX.
• Book XX.
• APPENDIX A THE SITE OF THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN
• APPENDIX B BRUCE’S SPEECH AT BANNOCKBURN
• APPENDIX C THE NUMBERS AT BANNOCKBURN
• APPENDIX D THE THROWING OF THE HEART
• APPENDIX E THE “ALEXANDER” AND THE “BRUCE”
• APPENDIX F MR. BROWN’S “SOURCES” FOR THE “BRUCE.”
• APPENDIX G LANGUAGE AND ORTHOGRAPHY
• Nouns
• Proper Nouns.
• Adjectives.
• Numerals.
• Pronouns.
• Verbs.
• Adverbs.
• Prepositions.
• GLOSSARY
• LIST OF PRINCIPAL WORKS IN REFERENCES
• LINENOTES
• FOOTNOTES