under the command of Sir Robert Keith. They rounded, as I conceive, the marsh called Milntown bog, and, keeping the firm ground, charged the left flank and the rear of the English archers. As the bowmen had no spears, nor long weapons, fit to defend themselves against horse, they were instantly driven into disorder, and spread through the whole English army a confusion from which they never fairly recovered. NOTE 66, Page 105.-"Lord of the Isles, my trusi in thee." When the engagement between the main bodies had lasted some time, Bruce made a decisive movement, by bringing up the Scottish reserve. Tradition affirins that at this crisis, he addressed the Lord of the Isles, in a phrase used as a motto by some of his descendants, "My trust is constant in thee." NOTE 67, Page 106.-" And mimic ensigns high they rear." The followers of the Scottish camp observed, from the Gillies hill in the rear, the impression produced upon the English army by the bringing up of the Scottish reserve, and, prompted by the intense awe of the moment, or the desire of plunder, assumed, in a tumultuous manner, such arms as they found nearest, fastened sheets to tent-poles and lances, and showed themselves like a new army riding to battle. The unexpected apparition, of what seemed a new army, completed the confusion which already prevailed among the English, who fled in every direction, and were pursued with immense slaughter. The brook of Bannock, according to Barbour, was so chocked with the bodies of men and horses, that it might have been passed dry-shod. The followers of the Scottish camp fell upon the disheartened fugitives, and added to the confusion and slaughter. Many were driven into the Forth and perished there. About a short mile from the field of battle is a place called the Bloody-faulds. Here the Earl of Gloucester is said to have made a stand, and died gallantly at the head of his own military-tenants, and vassals. He was much regretted by both sides. Marmaduke Twenge, an English knight, contrived to conceal himself during the press of the pursuit, and, when it was somewhat slackened, approached King Robert. "Whose prisoner are you, Sir Marmaduke?" said Bruce, to whom he was personally known. "Yours, sir," answered the knight. "I receive you,' answered the king; and, treating him with the utmost courtesy, loaded him with gifts, and dismissed him without ransom. NOTE 68, Page 106.-" O give their hapless Prince his due." Sir Edward II. showed, in the fatal field of Bannockburn, personal gallantry not unworthy of his great sire and greater son. He remained in the field till forced away by the Earl of Pembroke when all was lost. He then rode to the Castle of Stirling, and demanded admittance; but the governor remonstrated upon the imprudence of shutting himself up in that fortress, which must so soon surrender. He assembled around him 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 seventy 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. Edward's flight terminated at Dunbar, where the Earl of March, who still professed allegiance to him, "received him full gustly," From thence he escaped to Bambourgh in a fishing vessel. OF THE LAST SIR WALTER "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, |