Annals of such patriots of the distinguished family of Fraser, Frysell, Sim-son, or Fitz-Simon, as have signalised themselves in the public service of Scotland

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69,000*. However, they were far inferior to the
English army ; yet they would fight, and did so with
their usual bravery, but to their irretrievable loss ; for
they were overwhelmed with the distant shot of two
great bodies of archers, which King Edward planted
designedly in the front of the army ; so that great
numbers of the Scots were rendered useless before
they could get up tbe hill to come to blows. And
when at length they came up the hill, fatigued and
breathless as they were, it was no hard task to bear
down the foremost from the higher ground, and these
falling back upon the following ranks, disordered the
whole.
The Scots, in short, were entirely routed ; and what
added to their misfortune, their pages and servants,
with whom they left their horses, seeing how matters
went, run away with the horses to save themselves,
and left their masters destitute. Between 10,000 and
14,000 were killed on the spot; among these, the
Earls of Ross, Sutherland, Carrick, Athole, Lenox,
Monteith, three Stewarts, Sir Simon Fraser and his
two brothers, Sir John Graham, Sir Duncan Camp-
bell, and the General himself, who, on this occasion,
gave such proofs of his courage, as, had it not been
fatal to his country, would have ennobled his me-
mory |.
* Barness, Abercromby, &c.
f Abercromby, &c.