An Historical Romance.
BY JAMES GRANT, ESQ.,
AUTHOR OF
"THE ROMANCE OF WAR, OR THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS,"
"MEMOIRS OF KIRKALDY OF GRANGE," &C.
Dost thou admit his right,
Thus to transfer our ancient Scottish crown?
Ay, Scotland was a kingdom once,
And, by the might of God, a kingdom still shall be!
ROBERT THE BRUCE, ACT II.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1850.
Contents
I. Les Gardes Ecossais
II. The Glove
III. A Ball in the Olden Time
IV. Two Loves for One Heart
V. Beatrix Gilruth
VI. The Sedan
VII. Adventures of the Night Concluded
VIII. The Fencing Lesson
IX. The Luckenbooths
X. The White Horse Cellar
XI. The Betrothal
XII. The Defiance
XIII. The March for England
XIV. The Hawk and the Dove
XV. A Statesman of 1688
XVI. Trust and Mistrust
XVII. The Guisards
XVIII. The Revolt at Ipswich
XIX. Free Quarters
XX. The Redeemed Pledge
XXI. The Swart Rüyters
WALTER FENTON;
OR,
THE SCOTTISH CAVALIER.
Thus shall your country's annals boast your corps,
And, glorious thought! in times and ages hence,
Some valiant chief to stimulate the more,
And urge his troops, the battle in suspense,
Shall hold your bright example to their view.
RUDDIMAUN'S MAG.
Louis, surnamed the Saint, King of France,having taken the cross, sailed with a splendidretinue of knights, nobles, and soldiers bent onthe delivery of Jerusalem from the profanation ofthe Moslem; and, landing in the East, laid siegeto Damietta (in Lower Egypt), which hetriumphantly won by storm. But, after enduringinnumerable hardships and disasters by the sword,and by pestilence from the fœtid waters of themarshy Nile and the Lake of Menzaleh, he wasoverthrown in battle at Mansoura, and madecaptive by the Soldan.
This was about the year 1254, when AlexanderIII. was King of Scotland.
In these Eastern wars, St. Louis was twice savedfrom death by the valour of a small band ofa