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 ( 86 ) the apparition that warned him of his impena- ing late at the battle of Hawden. One of the houses in Linlithgow, is shown to strangers, as the place from whence Hainlton of Both- wollhauh sho: Regent Murray, as he was rid. ing along the street, and then rushed out at -a back gate, mounted his horse and fled. At the period now under review, the ambi- sous but prudent Edward, by the thread of enterioz the unknown mountains, vales. and Posts of the western Highlands, the hope conciliating the Scots by lenient measures, or by the view of a mighty force or some unre- corded cause, was induced to tarry at this place until another truce was nieditated between the Scots and English, by the interposition of France. Meanwhile, the Pope afforded a proof that he was changcalle, though he was, by his vota- ries, deemed infallable. Whether by the power- ful arguments of the English parliament, or by the more powerful influence of Edward's gold, it is not difficult to determine; the Pope, in the mean time, not only began to double of the validity of his own claims to the soveregnty of Scotland, but also of the reascuableness of the obstinate opposition made by the Scots to the authority which Edward arrogated over them. Accordingly, he addressed the Scottish Bishops in a tone of bitter reproach: and par- ticularly reprimanding Wishart, Bishop of Glas- gow, as a rock of offence between the Scottish nation