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22 to historians of credit, amounted, as before stated. to nearly 90,000 men, while that of the Scots scarcely reached to a third part of the amount Among the Scots who fell none was more regretted than Sir John the Graham, whose death was deeply mourned by Wallace. Sir John was buried at Falkirk, where a monument was erected to his memory, on which there is the following inseription :-“ Graham is buried here, slain in battle by the English: he was strong in mind and body, and the faithful friend of Wallace." The battle of Falkirk led the way to further successes on the side of the English, and almost the whole of the southern districts were reduced under their power. The Scots still held possession of the country north of the Forth. In the mean while Wallace, mortified by the treachery of the nobles, who threw every obstacle in the way of his being of any efficient use in the cause of his country, and disgusted with their quarrels and jealousies, retired for a while into obseurity. About this time, he took a voyage to France, with a small band of trusty friends, to try what his presence might do to induce the French monarch to send to Scotland a body of auxiliary forces to aid the Scots in regaining their independence but in the mean time bishop Lamberton, Bruce, earl of Carrick, and John Cumming the