Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Metrical History of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie, Vol. 1 of 3
The Hero, whom Henry celebrates, 18 univerfally allowed to have been a brave Patriot: without his vi gorous exertions, the effects of which did not ecafe with his death, his country, in all probability, would. Irrecoverably have fallen under the power of the Ed wards. And there is no doubt that Henry's Book contributed in no fmall degree, in after times, to, maintain among the Scots a Spirit of Independence.
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