On his entering the chamber7 where the regent sat with the chiefs who had accompanied him from Perthsire, the two English men walked forward; but before the herald could pay the customary respects, Le de Spencer advanced to Wallace; and to the price of a little mind, elated at being empowered to insult with impunity8, he broke forth9: “Sir William Wallace, the contumely with which the embassadors of Prince Edward were treated, is so resented by the King of England, that he invests his own majesty10 in my person to tell you, that your treasons have filled up their measure! that now, in the plenitude of his continental11 victories, he descends12 upon Scotland, to annihilate13 this rebellious14 nation; and-”
“Stop, Sir Hugh le de Spencer,” cried the herald, touching15 him with his scepter; “whatever may be the denunciations with which our sovereign has intrusted you, you must allow me to perform my duty before you declare them. And thus I utter the gracious message with which his Majesty has honored my mouth.”
He then addressed Wallace; and in the king’s name, accusing him of rebellion, and of unfair and cruel devastations made in Scotland and in England, promised him pardon for all if he would immediately disband his followers16 and acknowledge his offense17.
Wallace motioned with his hand for his friends to keep silence (for he perceived that two or three of the most violent were ready to break forth in fierce defiance18 of King Edward), and being obeyed, he calmly replied to the herald: “When we were desolate19, your king came to us as a comforter, and he put us in chains! While he was absent, I invaded his country as an open enemy. I rifled your barns, but it was to feed a people whom his robberies had left to perish! I marched through your lands, I made your soldiers fly before me; but what spot in all your shores have I made black with the smoke of ruin? I leave the people of Northumberland to judge between me and your monarch20. And that he never shall be mine or Scotland’s, with God’s blessing21 on the right, our deeds shall further prove!”
“Vain and ruinous determination!” exclaimed Le de Spencer; “King Edward comes against you, with an army that will reach from sea to sea. Wherever the hoofs22 of his war-horse strike, there grass never grows again. The sword and the fire shall make a desert of this devoted23 land; and your arrogant24 head, proud Scot, shall bleed upon the scaffold!”
“He shall first see my fires, and meet my sword in his own fields,” returned Wallace; “and if God continues my life, I will keep my Easter in England, in despite of King Edward, and of all who bear armor in his country!”
As he spoke25 he rose from his chair, and bowing his head to the herald, the Scottish marshals conducted the embassadors from his presence. Le de Spencer twice attempted to speak, but the marshals would not allow him. They said that the business of the embassy was now over; and should he presume further to insult their regent, the privilege of his official character should not protect him from the wrath26 of the Scots. Intimidated27 by the frowning brows and nervous arms of all around, he held his peace, and the doors were shut on him.
Wallace foresaw the heavy tempest to Scotland threatened by these repeated embassies. He perceived that Edward, by sending overtures28 which he knew could not be accepted-by making a show of pacific intentions, meant to throw the blame of the continuation of hostilities29 upon the Scots, and so overcome the reluctance30 of his more equitable31 nobility, to further persecute32 a people whom he had made suffer so unjustly. The same insidious33 policy was likewise meant to change the aspect of the Scottish cause in the eyes of Philip of France, who had lately sent congratulations to the regent, on the victory of Cambus–Kenneth; and by that means deprive him of a powerful ally and zealous34 negotiator for an honorable peace.
To prevent this last injury, Wallace dispatched a quick-sailing vessel35 with Sir Alexander Ramsay, to inform King Philip of the particulars of Edward’s proposals, and of the consequent continued warfare36.
On the twenty-eighth of February, Sir William Wallace joined Lord Andrew Murray, on Bothwell Moor37, where he had the happiness of seeing his brave friend again lord of the domains38 he had so lately lost in the Scottish cause. Wallace did not visit the castle. At such a crisis, he forbore to unnerve his mind, by awakening39 the griefs which lay slumbering40 at the bottom of his heart. Halbert came from his convent once more to look upon the face of his beloved master. The meeting cost Wallace many agonizing41 pangs42, but he smiled on his faithful servant. He pressed the venerable form in his manly43 arms, and promised him news of his life and safety. “May I die,” cried the old man, “ere I hear it is otherwise! But youth is no warrant for life; the vigor44 of those arms cannot always assure themselves of victory; and should you fall, where would be our country?”
“With a better than I,” returned the chief, “in the arms of God. He will fight for Scotland when Wallace is laid low.” Halbert wept. But the trumpet45 sounded for the field. He blessed his lord, and they parted forever.
A strong force from the Highlands joined the troops from Stirling; and Wallace had the satisfaction of seeing before him thirty thousand well-appointed men eager for the fight. With all Scotland pressing on his heart, his eye lingered for a moment on the distant towers of Bothwell; but not delaying a moment, he placed himself at the head of his legions, and set forth through a country now budding with all the charms of the cultivation46 he had spread over it. In the midst of a fine glen of renovated47 corn fields, he was met by a courier from Sir Roger Kirkpatrick, with information that the Northumbrians, being apprised48 of King Edward’s approach, were assembling in immense bodies; and having crossed the debatable land in the night, had driven Sir Eustace Maxwell, with great loss, into Carlaveroch; and though harassed49 by Kirkpatrick himself, were ravaging50 the country as far as Dumfries. The letter of the brave knight51 added, “These Southron thieves blow the name of Edward before them, and with its sound have spell-bound the courage of every soul I meet. Come then, valiant52 Wallace, and conjure53 it down again, else I shall not be surprised if the men of Annandale bind54 me hand and foot, and deliver me up to Algernon Percy (the leader of this inroad), to purchase mercy to their cowardice55.”
Wallace made no reply to this message, and proclaiming to his men that the enemy were in Dumfriesshire, every foot was put to the speed; and in a short time they arrived on the ridgy56 summits of the eastern mountains of Clydesdale. His troops halted for rest near the village of Biggar; and it being night, he ascended57 to the top of the highest craig, and lighted a fire, whose far-streaming light he hoped would send the news of his approach to Annandale. The air being calm and clear, the signal rose in such a long pyramid of flame, that distant shouts of rejoicing were heard breaking the deep silence of the hour. A moment after a hundred answering beacons58 burned along the horizon. Torthorald saw the propitious60 blaze; he showed it to his terrified followers. “Behold61 that hill of fire!” cried he, “and cease to despair.” “Wallace comes!” was their response; “and we will do or die!”39
39 The mountain from which this beacon59 sent its rays has from that hour been called Tinto or Tintoc (which signifies the Hill of Fire), and is yet regarded by the country people with a devotion almost idolatrous. Its height is about 2,260 feet from the sea.
Day broke upon Wallace as he crossed the heights of Drumlaurig, and pouring his thousands over the almost deserted62 valleys of Annandale, like a torrent63 he swept the invaders65 back upon their steps. He took young Percy prisoner, and leaving him shut up in Lochmaben, drove his flying vassals66 far beyond the borders.
Annandale again free, he went into its various quarters, and summoning the people (who now crept from their caves and woods, to shelter under his shield), he reproved them for their cowardice; and showed them, that unless every man possesses a courage equal to his general, he must expect to fall under the yoke67 of the enemy. “Faith in a leader is good,” said he; “but not such a faith as leaves him to act, without yourselves rendering68 that assistance to your own preservation69, which Heaven itself commands. When absent from you in person, I left my spirit with you in the brave Knights70 of Carlaveroch and Torthorald, and yet you fled. Had I been here, and you done the same, the like must have been the consequence. What think you is in my arm, that I should alone stem your enemies? The expectation is extravagant71 and false. I am but the head of the battle, you are the aims; if you shrink, I fall, and the cause is ruined. You follow my call to the field, you fight valiantly72, and I win the day! Respect then yourselves; and believe that you are the sinews, the nerves, the strength of Sir William Wallace!”
Some looked manfully up at this exhortation73; but most hung their heads in remembered shame, while he continued: “Dishonor not your fathers and your trust in God by relying on any one human arm, or doubting that from heaven. Be confident that while the standard of true liberty is before you, you fight under God’s banner. See how I in that faith drove these conquering Northumbrians before me like frighted roes74. You might, and must do the same, or the sword of Wallace is drawn75 in vain. Partake my spirit, brethren of Annandale; fight as stoutly76 over my grave as by my side, or before the year expires you will again be the slaves of Edward.”
Such language, while it covered the fugitives77 with confusion of face, awoke emulation78 in all to efface79 with honorable deeds the memory of their disgrace. With augmented80 forces he therefore marched into Cumberland; and having drawn up his array between a river and a high ground, which he covered with archers81, he stood prepared to meet the approach of King Edward.
But Edward did not appear till late in the next day; and then the Scots descried82 his legions advancing from the horizon to pitch their vanguard on the plain of Stanmore. Wallace knew that for the first time he was now going to pit his soldiership against that of the greatest general in Christendom. But he did not shrink from measuring him arm to arm and mind to mind, for the assurance of his cause was in both.
His present aim was to draw the English toward the Scottish lines, where, at certain distances, he had dug deep pits; and having covered them lightly with twigs83 and loose grass, left them as traps for the Southron cavalry84; for in cavalry, he was told by his spies, would consist the chief strength of Edward’s army. The waste in which Wallace had laid the adjoining counties, rendered the provisioning of so large a host difficult; and besides, as it was composed of a mixed multitude from every land on which the King of England had set his invading foot, harmony could not be expected to continue amongst its leaders. Delay was therefore an advantage to the Scottish regent; and observing that his enemy held back, as if he wished to draw him from his position, he determined85 not to stir, although he might seem to be struck with awe86 of so great an adversary87.
To this end he offered him peace, hoping either to obtain what he asked (which he did not deem probable), or, by filling Edward with an idea of his fear, urge him to precipitate88 himself forward, to avoid the danger of a prolonged sojourn89 in so barren a country, and to take Wallace, as he might think, in his panic. Instructing his heralds90 what to say, he sent them on to Roycross, near which the tent of the King of England was pitched. Supposing that his enemy was now at his feet, and ready to beg the terms he had before objected, Edward admitted the embassadors, and bade them deliver their message. Without further parley91 the herald spoke.
“Thus saith Sir William Wallace. Were it not that the kings and nobles of the realm of Scotland have ever asked redress92 of injuries before they sought revenge, you King of England, and invader64 of our country, should not now behold orators93 in your camp, persuading concord94, but an army in battle array, advancing to the onset95. Our lord regent being of the ancient opinion of his renowned96 predecessors98, that the greatest victories are never of such advantage to a conqueror99 as an honorable and bloodless peace, sends to offer this peace to you at the price of restitution100. The lives you have rifled from us you cannot restore, but the noble Lord Douglas, whom you now unjustly detain a prisoner, we demand; and that you retract101 those claims on our monarchy102, which never had existence till ambition begot103 them on the basest treachery. Grant these just requisitions, and we lay down our arms; but continue to deny them, and our nations is ready to rise to a man, and with heart and hand avenge104 the injuries we have sustained. You have wasted our lands, burned our towns, and imprisoned105 our nobility. Without consideration of age or condition, women, children, and feeble old men have unresisting fallen by your sword. And why was all this? Did our confidence in your honor offend you, that you put our chieftains in durance, and deprived our yeomanry of their lives? Did the benedictions106 with which our prelates hailed you as the arbitrator between our princes, raise your ire, that you burned their churches, and slew107 them on the altars? These, O king, were thy deeds, and for these William Wallace is in arms. But yield us the peace we ask-withdraw from our quarters-relinquish your unjust pretensions108, and we shall once more consider Edward of England as the kinsman109 of Alexander the Third, and his subjects the friends and allies of our realm.”
Not in the least moved by this address, Edward contemptuously answered, “Intoxicated by a transitory success, your leader is vain enough to suppose that he can discomfort110 the King of England, as he has done his unworthy officers, by fierce and insolent6 words; but we are not so weak as to be overthrown112 by a breath, nor so base as to bear argument from a rebel. I come to claim my own, to assert my supremacy113 over Scotland; and it shall acknowledge its liege lord, or be left a desert, without a living creature to say, ‘This was a kingdom.’ Depart, this is my answer to you; your leader shall receive his at the point of my lance.”
Wallace, who did not expect a more favorable reply, ere his embassadors returned had marshaled his lines for the onset. Lord Bothwell, with Murray, his valiant son, took the lead on the left wing; Sir Eustace Maxwell and Kirkpatrick commanded on the right. Graham (in whose quick observation and promptitude to bring it to effect, Wallace placed the first confidence) held the reserve behind the woods; and the regent himself, with Edwin and his brave standard-bearer, occupied the center. Having heard the report of his messengers, he repeated to his troops the lines, he exhorted114 them to remember that on that day the eyes of all Scotland would be upon them. They were the first of their country who had gone forth to meet the tyrant115 in a pitched battle; and in proportion to the danger they confronted, would be their meed of glory. “But it is not for renown97 merely that you are called upon to fight this day,” said he; “your rights, your homes are at stake. You have no hope of security for your lives but in an unswerving determination to keep the field, and let the world see how much more might lies in the arms of a few contending for their country and herediatry liberties, than in hosts which seek for blood and spoil. Slavery and freedom lie before you! Shrink but one backward step, and yourselves are in bondage116, your wives become the prey117 of violence. Be firm-trust Him who blesses the righteous cause, and victory will crown your arms!”
Though affecting to despise his young opponent, Edward was too good a general really to condemn118 an enemy who had so often proved himself worthy111 of respect; and therefore, by declaring his determination to put all the Scottish chieftains to death, and to transfer their estates to his conquering officers, he stimulated119 their avarice120, as well as love of fame, and with every passion in arms, they pushed to the combat.
Wallace stood unmoved. Not a bow was drawn till the impetuous squadrons, in full charge toward the flanks of the Scots, fell into the pits; then it was that the Highland3 archers on the hill launched their arrows; the plunging121 horses were instantly overwhelmed by others who could not be checked in their career. New showers of darts122 rained upon them, and, sticking into their flesh, made them rear and roll upon their riders; while others, who were wounded, but had escaped the pits, flew back in rage of pain upon the advancing infantry123. A confusion ensued, so perilous124, that the king thought it necessary to precipitate himself forward, and in person attack the main body of his adversary, which yet stood inactive. Giving the spur to his charger, he ordered his troops to press on over the struggling heaps before them; and being obeyed, with much difficulty and great loss, he passed the first range of pits; but a second and wider awaited him; and there, seeing his men sink into them by squadrons, he beheld125 the whole army of Wallace close in upon them. Terrific was now the havoc126. The very numbers of the Southrons, and the mixed discipline of their army, proved its bane. In the tumult127 they hardly understood the orders which were given; and some mistaking them, acted so contrary to the intended movements, that Edward, galloping128 from one end of the field to the other, appeared like a frantic129 man, regardless of every personal danger, so that he could but fix others to front the same tempest of death with himself. His officers trembled at every step he took, for fear that some of the secret pits should ingulf him.
However, the unshrinking courage of their monarch rallied a part of the distracted army, which, with all the force of desperation, he drove against the center of the Scots. But at this juncture130, the reserve under Graham, having turned the royal position, charged him in the rear; and the archers redoubling their discharge of artillery131, the Flanderkins, who were in the van of Edward, suddenly giving way with cries of terror, the amazed king found himself obliged to retreat, or run the risk of being taken. He gave a signal-the first of the kind he had ever sounded in his life-and drawing his English troops around him, after much hard fighting, fell back in tolerable order beyond the confines of his camp.
The Scots were eager to pursue him, but Wallace checked the motion. “Let us not hunt the lion till he stand at bay!” cried he. “He will retire far enough from the Scottish borders, without our leaving this vantage ground to drive him.”
What Wallace said came to pass. Soon no vestige132 of a Southron soldier, but the dead which strewed133 the road, was to be seen from side to side of the wide horizon. The royal camp was immediately seized by the triumphant134 Scots; and the tent of King Edward, with its costly135 furniture, was sent to Stirling as a trophy136 of the victory.
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