Robert The Bruce: King Of Scots. Ronald McNair Scott
kingdoms for you?’ he replied scornfully to the Lord of Annandale’s reminder of the promise of a throne – but to Edward, king of England. He had at last achieved the object to which he had been moving, step by step, by cunning and by force – the incorporation into one kingdom of England, Wales and Scotland.54
He remained for three weeks in Berwick ordering the administration of his new province. Scotsmen were no longer to be governed by Scotsmen but by Englishmen with no lineal or landed ambitions in that area. The Earl of Surrey was made viceroy, Sir Hugh Cressinham, treasurer, Sir Walter of Amersham, chancellor, and Sir William Ormesby, chief justice.55 The castles throughout Scotland were garrisoned by English troops, the Church benefices filled with English priests, the day to day business controlled by English bureaucrats from their headquarters in Berwick. Scotland, bereft of its natural leaders who were either immured in English prisons or drawn by the pull of their English possessions to Edward’s camp, appeared prostrate at his feet.
NOTES - CHAPTER 4
1 Cal. Doc. Scots, ii, 459; Dickinson, 109–10
2 ibid., ii, 465; Stones, 89
3 Lanercost, 77
4 Rishanger, 121
5 Pluscarden, 88
6 Cal. Doc Scots, ii, 473, 474
7 ibid., ii, 480; Stevenson, i, 228
8 Rishanger, 241
9 ibid., 242
10 Stones, 107
11 Rishanger, 245
12 Stones, 113
13 Cal. Doc Scots, ii, 485
14 ibid., ii, 516
15 Pluscarden, 95
16 ibid., 97
17 Fordun, 308
18 A.P.S., i, 449
19 Rishanger, 274–80
20 ibid., 309–16
21 Stones, 110–25
22 Fordun, 309
23 Rishanger, 363
24 Cal. Doc. Scots, ii, 650
25 Rotuli Scotiae, i, 12a
26 Stones, 127–9
27 Rishanger, 371
28 Cal. Doc. Scots, ii, 660
29 ibid., ii, 658
30 Stones, 131–3
31 Rishanger, 372
32 Cal. Doc. Scots, 720
33 Lanercost, 77
34 Stevenson, ii, 23
35 Barrow, 92
36 Cal. Doc. Scots, ii, 635
37 ibid., ii, 716
38 ibid., ii, 675
39 Dunbar, 127
40 Fordun, 317
41 Guisborough, 270
42 ibid., 271–2; Lanercost, 134
43 Lanercost, 115
44 Palgrave, 149
45 Stevenson, ii, 25
46 Rishanger, 375
47 Stevenson, ii, 37
48 Stones, 141
49 Fordun, 317