Scottish Text Society publications > Old series > Historie of Scotland > Volume 2, 1895

THE SEUINT BUIK.
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thay burnt, all war in a furie, and furiouslie gaue this
ansuer, that rather thay walde renunce thair lyfe or thay
renunce the libertie of thair cuntrie.
Caroler quintar, king of France, surnamed Sapiens
5 or wyse, w‘ ane armie maid vpo« the Jnfidelis to the
haly land, with monie scottis in his ompanie, in quhais
absens was gret co«te;/tiou« betuene ffrance and Jng-
land : The french men, throuch gret releif and virtue of
the Scotis, wan;z a worthie victorie against the Jnglis-
10 mezz; of quhilk benifit Carle king nocht vnmyndfull
institute ane ordour of a hundir Scotis archiers, quhais
office suld be to keip the kingis bodie, and in the nycht
watch to wayt vpon the king his jjettis : quhilkes all we
see this day jit obseruet.
15 Now Quein Joanna of King Dauid dies without of-
spring. All man sayd, it was the wil of god, this was
the cozzzmoun opinoun, that of her suld cuzzz na frute,
quhais gudschir, father, & brother sa lang to Scotland
had beine mortal ennimies. Within a jeir and les he
20 mariis ane Margaret a knycht his dauchtir, quhom he
repudiat and parted w1, nocht without defamatioun
of his honour; the cause quhy was this, he desparet
euir to haue ony successioun be her. Sche, in sik
melancolie for the cozztempte, passis in pilgrimage to
25 Rome, laments her cais to the pape, and to his halynes
makes her cozzzplaint, quhair in a few dayes sche endis
this lyfe.
King Dauid now repairis al castelis, Tounis, Touris,
and al places wraket in the weiris; als the castell of
30 Edinburgh quhais name sumtyme was Madin castel,
amaist al fallin douzze, he causes to erect and big vp,
quhair happilie he endis this lyfe, jeir of his rygne xxix.
Eftir him was na man barne of the Bruse his familie,
lawfull borne, to succeid conforme to the aid edict,
35 quhairfor the states of the Realme cozzzmitit the gou-
ernment of the kingdome vnto the Stuartis, quha evin to
How con-
stantlie
standes the
nobilitie of
Scotland.
The Jnstitu-
tioune of the
Scotis men
of weir in
Fra«ce
named
archiers.
foanna dies
>ut barnes.
Dauid
King dies,
^eir of God
1370.