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 ( 117 ) of England, yet he was tried by them, and we justly condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quarted; and, while alive to have his bowels eut out, which was acerdingly dons, with the utinost barbarity and cruelty: His head was fixed upon London Bridge, and the four quarters of his body were placed on the gates of as many of the principal cities of his native wountry: It is matter of severe regret that we are not havoured with the narrative of the behaviour of Wallace, during his trial, and upon the scaffold. From the moment he was taken prisoner, to that of his death he was solely in the bands of Englishmen. consequently, no Scottish author bad an opportunity to record his last actions or sayings, and Englishmen would not do justice to his memory, nor to his conduct, when enduring those torments, which proclaim the mean, dastardly, cruel, and ungenerous spirit of Edward, to all succeeding ages. Few Princes have led the honour of such an illustrious captive, or such a favourable opportunity, to immortalize their fame, by an act of generous maunatimitys either to treas with kind hospitality, or liberate wh princely greatness. John Blauwho was chaplain te Wallace, and who wrote the history of his life, which, unless a few fragments, is unfortunately lost, remarks, " That three things unite to im- mrerealize the ſame of nobly Wallace; his own