Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . ith-field—at the tails of his horses, he was there hanged on a high gallows, on Au-gust 23, 1305, after which he was drawn and quartered. His right arm wasset up at Newcastle, his left at Berwick ; his right leg at Perth, his left at Aber-deen ; his head on London Bridge. Wallaces daughter, by the heiress of Lam-mgton, married Sir William Bailie, of Hoprig, whose descendants through herinherited the estate of Lamington. ROBERT BRUCE By Sir J. Ber
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . ith-field—at the tails of his horses, he was there hanged on a high gallows, on Au-gust 23, 1305, after which he was drawn and quartered. His right arm wasset up at Newcastle, his left at Berwick ; his right leg at Perth, his left at Aber-deen ; his head on London Bridge. Wallaces daughter, by the heiress of Lam-mgton, married Sir William Bailie, of Hoprig, whose descendants through herinherited the estate of Lamington. ROBERT BRUCE By Sir J. Bernard Burke, (1274-1329) p-,?;^^e,:5^0BERT Bruce was bom in the year 1274, on the Feast of the trans-(i<;,-vVJ lation of St. Benedict, being March 21st, and was undoubtedly ofNorman origin. In an annual roll containing the names of thoseknights and barons who came over with William the Conqueror,we find that of Brueys ; and from the Domesday Book it appearsthat a family of the same name were possessed of lands in Yorkshire. Comingdown to a later period, 1138, when David I. of Scotland made his fatal attack 106 WORKMEN AND HEROES. upon England—fatal, that is, to himself and his people—the English Darons, pre-vious to the battle of Cutton Moor, near Northallerton, sent a message to theScottish king, by Robert Bruce, of Cleveland, a Norman knight, who possessed estates in either country. Upon his deaththis knight bequeathed his English lands tohis eldest son, and those in Annandale tohis younger, who received a confirmation ofhis title by a charter of William the this root sprung Robert Bruce, thecompetitor for the crown with Baliol, whosegrandson was the more celebrated RobertBruce, the younger. Earl of Carrick in virtueof his mothers title, and afterward King ofScotland. He was the eldest of three broth-ers and seven sisters, whose marriages withsome of the leading families of Scotlandproved an important element of success tothe future hero. His earl
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