A new edition of the life and heroick actions of the renown'd Sir William Wallace, General and Governour of Scotland: wherein the old obscure words are rendered more intelligible, and adapted to the Understanding of such who have no Leisure to study the Meaning and Import of such Phrases, without the Help of a Glossary. By William Hamilton. To which is annexed, The life and martial atchievements of that valiant hero, Robert Bruce King o Scotland. By John Hervey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, the Minstrel, fl. 1470-1492.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century.

English poetry.

[Wallace, William, Sir]--Biography--Early works to 1800.

[Wallace, William.

Genre:

Poems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx,394p.,plates ) ports. ;

Other Title:

New edition of the life and heroick actions of the renown'd Sir William Wallace,

Place of Publication:

Dundee : printed by H. Galbraith, MDCCLXX. [1770]

Notes:

The author named in the introduction as "blind Hary", i.e. Henry the Minstrel.

Verse.

Based on the Latin prose history of Wallace by John Blair, and adapted in modern English by William Hamilton.

'The life of Robert Bruce' has a separate dated titlepage, but pagination and register are continuous.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T107017.

OCLC:

642256916