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younger submited to Edward, but Sir William Wallace, with a very small band of followers re- fused either to acknowledge the usurper, Edward, for to lay down his arms. He continued to main- tain himself among the woods and mountains of his native country, for no less than seven years after his defeat at Falkirk, and for more than one year after all the other defenders of Scottish lib- erty had laid down their arms. Many proelam- ations were sent out against him by the English, and a great reward was set upon his head; for Edward did not think he could have any seeure possession of his usurped kingdom of Scotland while Wallace lived. At length he was taken prisoner; and, shame it is to say, a Scotsman, called Sir John Menteith, was the person by whom he was seized and delivered to the English. It is generally said that he was made prisoner at Robroyston, near Glasgow: and the tradition of the country bears, that the signal made for rushing upon him and taking him at unawares, was, when one of his pretended friends, who betrayed him, should turn a loaf, which was placed on the table, with its bottom or flat side uppermost. And in after-times it was reckoned ill-breeding to turn a loaf in that manner, if there was a person named Menteith in company; since it was as much as to