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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 Seots who fell none was more regret- ted than Sir John the Graham, whose death was deeply mourned by Wallace. Sir John was buried at Falkirk, where a monument was erce- ted to his memory, on which there is the follow- ing inscription :--“Graham is buried here, slain in battle by the English: he was strong in mind and body, and the faithful friend of Wallaee."           The battle of Falkirk led the way to further          suceesses on the side of the English, and almost          the whole of the southern districts were reduced          under their power. The Scots still held posses-          sion 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 obscurity.          About this time, he took a voyage to France,          with a small band of trusty friends, to try what          his presence might do to induee the French mon-          arch to send to Scotland a body of auxiliary for-          ces, to aid the Seots in regaining their independ- enee, but in the mean time bishop Lamberton Bruce, earl of Carrick, and John Cumming the