A new edition of the life and heroick actions of the renown'd Sir William Wallace, [electronic resource] : General and governor of Scotland: wherein the old obscure words are rendered more intelligiable, and adapted to the understanding of such who have no leasure to study the meaning and import of such phrases, without the help of a glossary. By Willam Hamilton. To which is annexed, The life and martial atchivements [sic] of that valiant hero, Robert Bruce King of Scotland. By John Hervey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, the Minstrel, fl. 1470-1492.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutionaries--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Revolutionaries.

Scotland--History--Wallaces Rising, 1297-1304--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Scotland.

Wallace, William, Sir, d. 1305--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Wallace, William.

Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Robert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx,[2],394p. )

Other Title:

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

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Printed by H. Galbnaith, and sold at his printing-house in the Bull-close, opposite to the Tron-Church, M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]

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 Trinity College Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T216121.

OCLC:

510586754