Identifier: blackspicturesqu01adam (find matches)
Title: Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
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Publisher: Endinburgh : Adam and Charles Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ound itnecessary to cause all the besieging implements in the Towerof London to be sent down to Scotland, and called all knightsand adventurers to join his forces in this great siege. Thewalls at length gave way under the battery of the engines, oneof which, called the Wolf, was peculiarly destructive ; a breachwas made, the ditch was filled up with stones and rubbish, andthe castle was taken. Stirling remained in the possession ofthe English for ten years. It was the last fortress in the kingdomwhich held out against Robert Bruce. To relieve this importantstronghold, Edward II. assembled a great army, and undertookthat invasion of Scotland which terminated in the disastrousdefeat of Bannockburn. The castle surrendered the day afterthe battle. After the death of King Robert Bruce it fell into * Although this town is not in Perthshire, it is placed here as the most convenientpoint from whicli the tourist can eutei- the county, especially with the view of makingthe tour of the Trosachs.
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UISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS. 171 the hands of Edward Baliol, the aspirant to the Scottish throne,and was recovered for King David Bruce only after a long andobstinate siege. Stirling became a royal residence about thetime of the accession of the house of Stuart, and was long thefavourite abode of the Scottish monarchs. It was the birth-place of James II. and of James V., who was crowned here; andJames VI. and his eldest son Prince Henry were baptized in it.The palace, which was built by James V., is in the form of aquadrangle, and occupies the south-east part of the fortress.The buildings on the south side of the square are the oldestpart of the castle. In the north-west corner there is an apart-ment called the Douglas Room, in which William Earl ofDouglas was assassinated by James II. The powerful noble,who set at defiance the authority both of the king and thelaw, had been guilty of many acts of tiagrant oppression andcruelty, and had entered into a private bond or confederacywith the E

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