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a memorial of their being fubjects by conqued to the crown of 



England. 



The Scots revolting, King Edward reduced them by force of 

 arms to obedience, in 1300; a year memorable for the renewal 

 of the great charters, and the new ftatute made for their confir- 

 mation, intitled Artlculi fuper Chartas, or articles upon the char- 

 ters (mj. 



To hold the Scots in the greater fubjeclion through fear, he 

 ordered one half of the body of Sir William WallaJ'e, after his exe- 

 cution, to be fet over Berwick-bridge, in the 33d year of his 

 reign, 1305 ; and the year following the Countcfs of Boughan was 

 fet by his command on the walls of Berwick~ca.fi.le in a wooden- 

 cage, for putting the crown of Scotland on the head of Robert Bruce 

 at Scone, in the abfence of her brother, the Earl of Fife, then at 

 his manour of Whifwick in Leicefterjhire (n). 



By the policy and valour of Edward^ Berwick was in the pof- 

 feflion of the Engli/Ij twenty years. After his death, the Scots ac- 

 quired it, ii K. Edward II, 1318, on the 2d of April ; not; Ny bra- 

 very, but by corruption. Sir Pierce Spalding delivered ir up to 

 Thomas Randall, Earl of Murray, in consideration of lands given 

 him in Angus, in Scotland fo). It remained in their poffeflion till 

 7 K. Edward III, 1333 ; when it was recovered by a great victory 

 obtained over them by his majefty on Hallidon-Hill, near the town, 



fm) Statutes at Large, anno 13005, 

 Code's ad Inft. 537. 



(n) Hal. Chron. Vol. ii. p. 313, 1314* 



Vol. i. 221-22. 

 Vol. ii. p. 32?, 324. 



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