Category: History - British
Britain, dimly recognisable in the vague accounts given by Hecatæus of a large island off the coast of Gaul inhabited by a sacred race of _Hyperboreans_, and sometimes even disputing with Iceland the questionable honour of having been known as _Ultima Thule_, owes her first in...
Britain, dimly recognisable in the vague accounts given by Hecatæus of a large island off the coast of Gaul inhabited by a sacred race of _Hyperboreans_, and sometimes even disp...
5. CHAPTER II.The history of Scotland as a kingdom may be said in general terms to begin with the accession of the family of Kintyre; but the Scotland of the period of the MacAlpin dynasty, b...
6. CHAPTER IV.No opposition seems to have been offered upon the death of Colin to another son of Malcolm the First, [Sidenote: A. D. 971.] who ascended the throne as Kenneth the Second; thoug...
7. CHAPTER V.Upon the death of Malcolm the Second the direct male line of Kenneth MacAlpin became extinct; but the rights of the royal race, originally inherited through the female line, wer...
8. CHAPTER VI.Three centuries had now elapsed since the conquests of the Pictish Angus established the supremacy of his native province, and laid the foundation of the future kingdom of Scotl...
9. CHAPTER VII.The lamentable occurrence on the banks of the Alne threw all Scotland into confusion, retarding the progress of the country for the next quarter of a century. Edward had been ch...
10. CHAPTER VIII.The death of Alexander, without heirs, reunited to the Scottish kingdom the appanage of Cumbria, which had been so unwisely severed from it by Edgar; and the last surviving son...
11. CHAPTER IX.Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries still retained many of the features of a confederated rather than of a consolidated kingdom, acknowledging indeed, even in the e...
12. CHAPTER X.At some remote and long-forgotten period, Christianity was first preached amongst the Provincials of Britain; and it became the established religion of the Romanized portion of...
13. CHAPTER XI.Six months had barely elapsed since the death of David before the evil consequences of a minority became apparent, and the peace of Scotland was again disturbed by the attempts...
14. CHAPTER XII.Amongst the earliest acts of William after his accession was the performance of feudal service for the fief of Huntingdon, accompanying Henry for this purpose upon one of his nu...
15. CHAPTER XIII.Peace reigned throughout the northern borders of England during the absence of her king in the Holy Land; and when Richard languished in the dungeons of the emperor, William con...
16. c. 9) places them on the western coast, where he supposes that thereonce existed an earldom of Garmoran. The same objection, I fear, may be raised against the earldom of Garmoran which is urged against the earldom of the Merns--the total silence...
17. xli. The Welsh gave, for finding witnesses, three days within the[295] _Assize Dav._, 1, 13, 16. _Wil._ 20. _Slat, Alex. II._ 4. The _three Thanedoms_ are evidently the same as the _three Baronies_, so continually met with in later laws. Both...
18. c. 38, writes that only the three other castles were made over to theEnglish king; and Wynton follows him, bk. 7, c. 8, l. 159. The treaty in the Fœdera is dated at Falaise; but a passage in Diceto (to which no allusion is made in the Capitula) s...