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(4) In pages 18, 19, 20, and 21, there are many interesting- 



references to William Wallace, too long to quote. 



(5) A.D. 1305. "The said King (Edward) caused the Town of 



Berwick to be surrounded with a stone Wall." (p. 23.) 



(6) "At the Parliament of York (1328?) where this King 

 Edward of England took for his wife Philippa the daughter 

 of Count William of Hainault, this war with Scotland was 

 ended, the relics were restored and also the indentures 

 of obeisance by the Scottish lords, which men called 

 Ragman* (because of) their seals hanging thereto, and 

 which King Edward the First after the Conquest had 

 exacted." (p. 82.) 



(7) A.D. 1368. "After this same Martinmas, the said King of 



England held a general parliament in London where it 

 was ordained by statute that the law pleas of his realm 

 should be conducted in English, having liitherto been so 

 in French since the time of William the Conqueror." 

 (p. 172.) 



It is impossible to close this fascinating volume without 

 referring to the one liundred and two heraldic shields! in their 

 proper colours, of the knights mentioned in its stirring pages. 

 The translation is appropriately inscribed to Sir Edward Grey, 

 Bart., M.P., the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who, 

 with his kinsman Earl Grey, is stated to be a descendant of 

 the writer of the chronicle. No mention is made that the 

 Earl of Tankerville is really the representative and heir of the 

 Hne, and, as such, proprietor of Castle-Heaton (the ancient 

 inheritance of the family), of Wark, and of historic Chillingham 

 Castle and its Wild Cattle. It may be regretted that a portion 

 of the preface was not devoted by the translator to a sketch 

 of the early history of the Greys ; for the general reader, with 



* The well-known Ragman Roll. 



t Beautifully designed and executed by Mr Graham Johnston, heraldi 

 artist at the Lyon-Office. 



