Over nearly twelve years of studying the time of the Scottish Wars of Independence, the story of the attack on the bishops has long been familiar to me. It is mentioned in passing in one of the volumes of The Blue Bells Chronicles. (Westering Home, if I remember correctly.) The short story is that churchmen […]
So now we’ve laid some of the ground work, the background to Bruce’s Heavenly Help. Bruce is at perhaps the lowest point of his life, not merely personally, but in the outlook for his country in its stand against England. . Indeed, Bruce had few followers. The country was torn apart, Comyn supporters against Bruce […]
Throughout history, the story of the American colonists’ fight for freedom has been repeated: small and weak countries fighting against those bigger and larger. The Scottish Wars of Independence are one such example. Since 1286, Edward I, king of England, had involved himself in Scotland’s affairs, claiming to be overland of the country. With the […]
With Midsummer’s Day and the Midsummer blog hop on us, it seems a particularly good day to tell the story of St. Bee’s. St. Bee’s is actually a church in northern England, but it was visited by James Douglas and his raiders in the years following Bannockburn, in the course of trying to force Edward […]