THE LIFE AND REIGN OF EDWARD I. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE GREATEST OF THE PLANTAGENETS.”

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

I. BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS.

II. ACCESSION TO THE THRONE—EDWARD’S EARLIEST PROCEEDINGS.

III. THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS.

IV. MIDDLE PERIOD OF EDWARD’S LIFE. A.D. 1279–1290.

V. RETROSPECTIVE VIEW.

VI. SCOTTISH AFFAIRS—THE ARBITRATION—THE WAR. A.D. 1291–1296.

VII. TROUBLES WITH FRANCE—WAR IN SCOTLAND.

VIII. THE WAR WITH FRANCE, AND VARIOUS TROUBLES AT HOME, A.D. 1297.

IX. WILLIAM WALAYS, A.D. 1297, 1298.

X. PROLONGATION OF TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND—PARLIAMENTARY DISCUSSIONS IN ENGLAND, A.D. 1299–1302.

XI. THE DISAFFORESTING QUESTION—THE COMMISSION OF TRAILBASTON, ETC., ETC., A.D. 1299–1305.

XII. THE SETTLEMENT OF SCOTLAND, A.D. 1303–1305.

XIII. BRUCE’S REBELLION: THE WAR WHICH FOLLOWED.—THE DEATH OF EDWARD: HIS CHARACTER.

APPENDIX.

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