The Bruce
by John Barbour
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Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Book I
- Book II. How the Bruce avoided King Edward’s Deceit
- Book III. Here the Lord of Lorn attacks the King because of the Death of John Comyn
- Book IV. How the Queen and Other Ladies were taken and imprisoned and her Men slain
- Book V. Of the King’s Handseling in Carrick at his First Arrival
- Book VI
- Book VII. How John of Lorn sought the Good King Robert Bruce with the Sleuth-hound
- Book VIII
- Book IX. How Good King Robert lay Sick in Inverury
- Book X. Here the King passes against John of Lorn
- Book XI
- Book XII
- Book XIII
- Book XIV. How the Earl of Carrick passed into Ireland to win it, and with him Earl Thomas Randolph and Sir Philip the Mowbray, Sir John Stewart, Sir John Soulis, and Ramsay of Ochterhouse
- Book XV
- Book XVI
- Book XVII. The Winning of the Town of Berwick by the Scots Men, through the Means of Sim of Spalding
- Book XVIII. How Sir Edward the Bruce was slain in Ireland
- Book XIX. How the Lord Soulis thought through Treason with his Accomplices to have put down Good King Robert the Bruce, and how he was warned by a Lady
- Book XX. How Good King Robert the Bruce crowned his Young Son David and Dame Johann, his Spouse
- Notes (part 1)
- Notes (part 2)
- Appendices
- Glossary
- List of Principal Works in References