Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... King James, finding that his brother-in-law had actually sailed to invade Louis XII. (June 1st, 1513), dispatched to the aid of his ally his two great ships, which always sailed in consort--the Margaret, which he had named after his Queen, and the James; likewise the great St. Michael, and a fleet of smaller vessels, under the command of his kinsmen, the Earls of Huntly and Arran. Like all marine expeditions under the command of soldiers, it was an abortive one; and the Earl of Arran incurred his King's displeasure by his strange manosuvers, and excited suspicion, that if he had had sufficient seamanship, he would have run away with the fleet. Meantime James IV. sent his Lord Lion to declare war on Henry VIII., then besieging Terouenne; and the Lord Lion, in his herald's dress, being introduced by. Garter, in his garb of solemnity, to the presence of Henry VIII., then in his camp, declared war in a set and serious oration.1 Among the other wrongs which had induced the King of Scots to declare war, are enumerated the following: --" Because King Henry had taken various Scotchmen out of our realm, and chained them in prison by the craigs (necks); likewise withholding our wiff's legacy (promised in divers letters) in despite of us; and slaughter of Andrew Barton, by your awn command, quha had not offended you or your lieges--breaking peace and amity by that deed."8 Here was cause enough for war. The naval conflict in time of profound peace; the death, in consequence, of James's gallant seaman, Andrew Barton--to say nothing of the cruelty of catching Scotchmen and "chaining them by the craigs"--were outrages bad enough, without the further aggravation of depriving Margaret of the legacy, regarding which she had made such ceaseless...
