. A history of the art of war, the middle ages from the fourth to the fourteenth century . inistrum cornu exercitus,operientes illas cum plexis et viminibus. But an even better authority than the verysensible Baker is Robert Baston, the unfortunate prisoner whom Bruce compelled tocelebrate the victory in Latin verse. He says that Plebs foveas fodit, ut per eas labantur plena malis pedibus formatur equinisConcava, cum palis, ne pergant absque ruinis. This certainly means a series of holes, not a ditch, and fully bears out Barboursaccount of the Pottes. As to their position, Ba
. A history of the art of war, the middle ages from the fourth to the fourteenth century . inistrum cornu exercitus,operientes illas cum plexis et viminibus. But an even better authority than the verysensible Baker is Robert Baston, the unfortunate prisoner whom Bruce compelled tocelebrate the victory in Latin verse. He says that Plebs foveas fodit, ut per eas labantur plena malis pedibus formatur equinisConcava, cum palis, ne pergant absque ruinis. This certainly means a series of holes, not a ditch, and fully bears out Barboursaccount of the Pottes. As to their position, Barbour says that Oti either side the way wele bradIt was pottit, as I have tald,Gef that their faes on horse will haldFurth in that way, I trow they shallNot well escape withouten fall. And in another passage he speaks of the Pottes as in ane plane field by the suppose that ** the way means the Roman road, and that the pits lay on each side ofit for many hundred yards, probably reaching to the very flanks of the army. S g 5 -« 5 u o S LUtDS Q H X »- .^ fc . . U-. ^ »-».^ I3I4] BANNOCKBURN : THE ENGLISH ARMY 573 sight of the enemy approaching from the south, behind theshelter of Gillies Hill, a wooded eminence at the right rear oftheir position, leaving only small detachments out to watch theadvance of the English—one at the * entry, the place wherethe Roman road crossed the burn and marsh, the other at Kirk, to guard against any attempt of the enemy toturn the position by its eastern end through the mosses of theCarse. The king watched at the former place, the Earl ofMurray at the latter. Presently the English army came in sight on the low line ofhills which form the southern horizon. Edward II. had broughta vast host with him : the estimate of a hundred thousand menwhich the Scottish chroniclers give is no doubt exaggerated, butthat the force was very large is shown by the genuine detailsof the mustering which have come down to us. There havebeen
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