Scotland Under Her Early Kings PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ...cujusdem mendaciis flageltorian down to the present day, with lavit." But in 1. 8, c. 2, Fordun treats Malcolm MacIIeth. Newbridge, who MacIIeth himself as an impostor, relates his adventures at length, 1. 1, " erat enim iste Malcolmus fdius Macc. 23, 24, and who had often seen him Heth, sed mentiendo dicebat se filium in his blindness and captivity at Biland, Angusii Comitis Moravisc." Here bemerely says that he was born at some gins the confusion; but it can be clearly obscure spot in England, and pretended shown that Wimund and MacHeth to be "a son of the Earl of Moray." were totally different persons. Ma1. Ailred (quoted in Foiiun, 1. 5, c. 51) colm MacIIeth, " the heir of his also alludes to him as an impostor, father's hatied," was captured in 1134 " Cum misisset ei Deus inimicum and confined in Roxburgh Castle until quemdam pseudo-episcopuin qui se 1157, when he was liberated by Malfilium Comitis Moraviensis mentie-coin; the Fourth and attested one of the Dunfermlyn Charters (Ailred, p. importunitatem privatus fuit oculis et The whole of the north of England beyond the Tees had now for several years been under the influence, if not under the direct authority, of the Scottish king, and the comparative prosperity of this part of the kingdom, contrasting strongly with the anarchy prevailing in every other quarter, naturally inclined the population of the northern counties to look with favour upon a continuance of the Scottish connection. All southward of the Tyne, indeed, was held probably in the name of the Empress Queen, but the influence of David extended far beyond the Tees, and when a claim was raised upon the Honour of Skipton in Craven, it was the Scottish, and not the English king who...