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Excerpt from The History of Scotland, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Earliest Accounts of That Nation, to the Reign of King James Vi.; To Which Is Annexed a Genealogy of All the Kings From Fergus I. To James Vi
The regent and the chancellor did bewail the state of things, but they could not rectify it; so that the gangrene spread farther and farther, and soon infected all those parts of Scotland which lay within the Forth. And they themselves also disagreed, inso much that proclamations were publicly made in market towns and villages, by Alexander, that no man should pay obedience to the chancellor; and by the chancellor, that none should obey A lexander. And if a man addressed himself to ither of them, to complain of any wrongs, he was sure, at his rejurn, to meet with severe treatment from the men of the contrary faction; and mat ters were now and then carried with so high a hand, that the complainant had his house fired about his ears, and was ruined to all intents and purposes; so that both parties went beyond the length of hostile fury, in their mutual butcheries of one another. But the good nien, who had joined neither faction, not knowing well what to do, kept close at home, privately bewailing the de plqrable state of their country Thus, whilst eve1y party sought to strengthen itself, the public was neglected, and stood as it were in the midst, forsaken and abandoned by every body.
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