An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
Rait, Robert S.
English
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Outline of the
Relations between
England and Scotland
(500-1707)
BY
ROBERT S. RAIT
FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD
LONDON
BLACKIE & SON, Limited, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.
GLASGOW AND DUBLIN
1901
PREFATORY NOTE
I desire to take this opportunity of acknowledging valuable aid derivedfrom the recent works on Scottish History by Mr. Hume Brown and Mr.Andrew Lang, from Mr. E.W. Robertson's Scotland under her Early Kings,and from Mr. Oman's Art of War. Personal acknowledgments are due toProfessor Davidson of Aberdeen, to Mr. H. Fisher, Fellow of New College,and to Mr. J.T.T. Brown, of Glasgow, who was good enough to aid me inthe search for references to the Highlanders in Scottish mediævalliterature, and to give me the benefit of his great knowledge of thissubject.
R.S.R.
New College, Oxford,
April, 1901.
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTION |
| CHAPTER I—Racial Distribution and Feudal Relations, 500-1066 a.d. |
| CHAPTER II—Scotland and the Normans, 1066-1286 |
| CHAPTER III—The Scottish Policy of Edward I, 1286-1296 |
| CHAPTER IV—The War of Independence, 1297-1328 |
| CHAPTER V—Edward III and Scotland, 1328-1399 |
| CHAPTER VI—Scotland, Lancaster, and York, 1400-1500 |
| CHAPTER VII—The Beginnings of the English Alliance, |
| CHAPTER VIII—The Parting of the Ways, 1542-1568 |
| CHAPTER IX—The Union of the Crowns, 1568-1625 |
| CHAPTER X—"The Troubles in Scotland", 1625-1688 |
| CHAPTER XI—The Union of the Parliaments, 1689-1707 |
| APPENDIX A—References to the Highlanders in Mediæval Literature |
| APPENDIX B—The Feudalization of Scotland |
| APPENDIX C—Table of the Competitors of 1290 |
| INDEX |
INTRODUCTION
The present volume has been published with two main objects. The writerhas attempted to exhibit, in outline, the leading features of theinternational history of the two countries which, in 1707, became theUnited Kingdom. Relations with England form a large part, and the heroicpart, of Scottish history, relations with Scotland a very much smallerpart of English history. The result has been that in histories ofEngland references to Anglo-Scottish relations are occasional andspasmodic, while students of Scottish history have occasionallyforgotten that, in regard to her southern neighbour, the attitude ofScotland was not always on the heroic scale. Scotland appears on thehorizon of English history only during well-defined epochs, leaving no
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