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 ( 10 ) opprobricus appellation that an English inve- tion could supply. Wallace drew his dirk. and piercing the steward to the centre laid him on the proud, and left the Sheriff's'servant at liberty to return home with his provision. The English, who were in arms for the pur- pose of guarding the town, assembled against Wallace; he drew his sword and gave death. in various forms with every blow. Since nono wurst approach him, in order to prevent his escape, the gates were barricaded with their spears. He then attempted to break over the wall at a place adjacent to the sea bus multitudes of the English rushed upon him, and his sword having been so much employed that day, that it broke in pieces, he was over- povered with their spears, taken prisoner, and comined in the castle, to wait the most excru- ciating death. The report of this sad even spread consternation and sorrow throughout Scotland. His friends if red large suns for h ransom; but the En increased in their demands as their offers increased. He languished in prison, deprived of every Elation, except what resulted from a sineers dre for the weifare of his country, and even of the neeessaries o fe: 80 that, when they wore out to bring him forth to a cruel anita ignominous death, want appeared to have duranted his iif.. They instantly throw him OVCp the wall of the prison; but fortunater for Suotland; he hunded upon a soft drail dange- Poid allows us builty of thin cad event,