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the church before the altar. A knight, his uncle, who was pre- 

 sent, struck the said Robert de Bruys with a sword on the breast. 

 But as he was armed it did not wound him. The uncle was 

 killed there." 



The Narrative of the Chronicler of Lanercost. 



The Chronicle of Lanercost was written by a Minor Friar 

 of Carlisle, attached to the Abbey of Lanercost, in Cumberland. 

 He was a contemporary of Bruce. There is only one MS. of 

 it existing. Stevenson says : — " It forms one of the treasures of 

 the Cottonian collection in the British Museum." It was 

 printed and published for the Maitland Club, Edinburgh, and 

 edited by Joseph Stevenson, the editor of Gray's "Scalacronica." 



Translation: — "In the same year, on the loth of P'ebruary, 

 to wit, on the feast of the Holy Scholastic Virgin (Feb. lo, 

 1306), the lord Robert Bruse, earl of Carrike, with sedition and 

 in guile sent for the lord John Comyn to come and speak with 

 him at the Minor Friars of Dumfrese. And when he had come, 

 he killed him in the church of the Friars, and the lord Robert 

 Cumyn, his uncle. And afterwards he took the castles of 

 Scotland and their garrisons, and on the Annunciation of the 

 Blessed Virgin next following (25th March, 1306), he was made 

 King of Scotland at Scone, and many of the greater and less 

 men of the land adhered to him." 



Translation of Extract from Hemingburgh's Chronicle. 



" Christopher de Seton, who had married a sister of the new 

 King named Mary, and was an Englishman, was captured in the 

 Castle of Lochdor, as w'ere afterwards his wife and many others. 

 The King ordered him to be taken to Dunfrees, where he had 

 killed a soldier, and there to be drawn, hanged, and beheaded. 

 His two brothers and all others who had agreed to and taken 

 part in the death of the lord John Comyn had the same sentence. 

 And this was by the special order of the King. But the King 

 placed Christopher's wife in the monastery of Thixtell in 

 Lyndesay, and he placed the new King's daughter in the 

 monastery of Wotton. And our lord the King gave to lord 

 Edmund de Malolacu the manor of Sethon in Wythebystrand, 

 which was Christopher's, and his other lands which he had in 

 Northumberland the King gave to lord William de Latymer." 



