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H4^^4* 4*/ -j&i-f1 t>r?*' * *yf’ li**+‘Q\- tfiln yj <(#>&&- V*7 tflt’/'m^-' iKb'wesrval .tt£bbt«ixe <&*&*£- J$P~i<tnH Alt i^*^y 4y*~ <Svr^{ w t*ot**Vf V ffe < Jv) wyntoun’s original chronicle SCOTTISH TEXT SOCIETY The Royal MS. Fol. zicp V THE Original Chronicle OF ANDREW OF WYNTOUN Printed on Parallel Pages from the Cottonian and Wemyss MSS., with the Variants of the Other Texts EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY BY F. J. AMOURS VOL. I. Introduction, Notes, Glossary, and Index op! Printeti for tije Societg bg WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON 1914 All Rights re saved CONTENTS. VOLUME I. PACK Preface ......... xi Memoir of the Editor (with Portrait) xiii Introduction xvii Section i. Editor’s material utilised posthumously . xvii Section 2. Saint Serf’s Priory . xix Section 3. Sketch Biography of Andrew of Wyntoun . XXX Section 4. Notice of Sir John Wemyss xli Section 5. Editions and MS. Texts of the Chronicle xliii Section 6. Special descriptions of the MSS. Ixi Section 7. General sketch of Contents, Sources, and System of the Chronicle Ixviii Section 8. Four stages in its development Ixxxvir Section 9. Wyntoun’s anonymous Contributor xc Section 10. Appendix of Wemyss MS. Chapter Rubrics ciii Notes to the Chronicle 1-141 Glossary ........ 143-197 Index ......... 198-23& VOLUME II. Book I. of Text of Chronicle. From Creation to Bel, father of Ninus, King of Assyria 2 VI CONTENTS. Book II. 2052-1182 b.c. From Ninus, King of Assyria, 2052 b.c., to Destruction of Troy, 1182 b.c. ...... 140 Book III. 1182 b.c. to circa 752 b.c. 266 From Siege of Troy, 1182 b.c., to Simon Brek’s arrival in Ireland . .271 Simon Brek’s descendants to Fergus More . .348 VOLUME III. (752 B.C.-395 A-D-) Book IV. 752 b.c. to i a.d. ..... 2 From Foundation of Rome, 752 b.c., to Birth of Christ 8 Beginning of Scots in Scotland, 452 b.c. ... 83 Coming of Piets to Scotland, 200 b.c. .134 Book V. 1-395 a.d. From Birth of Christ to the reign of Emperor Theodosius, 395 a.d. ........ 206 Pictish Kings ........ 497 VOLUME IV. (407-1165 a.d.) Book V.—continued. 407-716 a.d. King Arthur, circa 458-475 a.d. 18 St Serf (574 a.d.) ....... 76 Brude, jon of Dargard, King of the Piets . 81 Kings of Piets from Nectane to Talargan ... 91 Book VI. 724-1065 a.d. War of Piets and Scots . .126 Kings from Constantine, 815 a.d., to Malcolm II., 1003 a.d. ...... 168-201 Duncan I., 1034 a.d. .254 Macbeth, 1040 a.d. ....... 272 Malcolm Canmore, 1057 a.d. • 3°3 CONTENTS. vii Book VII. 1065-1165 a.d. Malcolm Canmore, 1057-1093 a.d. 310 Donald VI., 1093-1094 a.d. ..... 350 Duncan II., 1094-1095 a.d. .352 Donald VI., restored 1095-1098 a.d. 352 Edgar, 1098-1107 a.d. ...... 354 Alexander I., 1107-x 124 a.d. ..... 368 David I., 1124-1153 a.d. ...... 382 Malcolm IV., 1153-1165 a.d. ..... 420 VOLUME V. (1165-1332 a.d.) Book VII.—continued. 1165-1286 a.d. William the Lion, 1165-1214 a.d. .... 2 Alexander II., 1214-1249 a.d. ..... 66 Alexander III., 1249-1286 a.d. .108 Book VIII. 1286-1332 a.d 147 Margaret of Norway, 1286 a.d. • I55 Interregnum (1286-1292) ...... 163 John Balliol, 1292-1296 a.d. ..... 266 Interregnum (1296-1306). ..... 297 Robert the Bruce, 1306-1329 a.d. .... 352 David II., 1329-1332 a.d. 372 VOLUME VI. (1333-1408 a.d.) Book VIII.—continued. David II.—continued. 1333-1371 a.d. ... 2 Book IX. 1371-1408 a.d 257 Robert II., 1371-1390 a.d. ..... 264 Robert III., 1390-1406 a.d. ..... 363 James I., 1406-1408 a.d. ...... 416 LIST OF FACSIMILE PAGES OF MSS. At beginning of Volume R = Royal MS. (text Vol. V., p. 369) .... I. VV = Wemyss MS., folio 178a (text Vol. IV., p. 22) . II. C = Cottonian MS., folio 142a (text Vol. V., p. 143) . III. Au = Auchinleck MS., folio 71^ (text Vol. IV., p. 123 note) IV. E2 = Second Edinburgh MS. (text Vol. IV., p. 123 note) IV. E = First Edinburgh MS. (text Vol. V., p. 369) . V. A = St Andrews MS. (text Vol. II., p. 347) . VI. PREFACE. In 1900 the Scottish Text Society committed the editor- ship of Andrew of Wyntoun’s ‘Original Chronicle’ to Mr Francis Joseph Amours, who had previously edited a volume of ‘ Scottish Alliterative Poems ’ for the Society. Taking up and pursuing this great task with the utmost assiduity and fidelity, Mr Amours was within sight of its completion when, on 9th September 1910, he died, leaving the text completely printed in five volumes, the Notes, Glossary, and Index in manuscript ready for the press, and only the Introduction unaccomplished. The debt of the Society to Mr Amours for all his learned labour on its behalf can hardly be overstated, and the Society’s gratitude for his work, regret for his death, and sense of consequent loss, correspond to the profound personal esteem in which he was widely held. This preface to the magnum opus of Mr Amours offers the best and most permanent opportunity for the Society’s expression of its grateful tribute to his long-continued and conspicuously successful editorial service to Scottish literature and history. Appended is a reprint of a biographical notice from the ‘Scottish Historical Review’ for October 1910, with slight revisions and additions. Xll PREFACE. Acknowledgments (additional to those rendered in vol. ii. pp. vii.-xi.) for many courtesies and facilities would assuredly have been made by Mr Amours him- self, especially to Mr R. G. Erskine Wemyss of Wemyss, who kindly lent to the Society the Wemyss MS.; to Mr John Ferguson, Writer, Duns, who similarly lent the Auchinleck MS. ; and to Dr W. A. Craigie, Oxford, who communicated some transcriptions and notes. The Society itself desires not only to express its gratitude to these gentlemen, but also to apologise for offering only general acknowledgment to others whose services were helpful to Mr Amours. The present volume has been put through the press by Mr J. T. T. Brown and Dr Geo. Neilson, who have to thank Dr Maitland Thomson for the communication of most important documents concerning the biography of Wyntoun, and who are also indebted to Miss Mary Love for much attention to the proof-sheets of this volume. They have also particularly to acknowledge the great helpfulness of Mrs Amours in searching out from her husband’s papers, &c., many supplementary materials now used for the Introduction. October 1914. '■fi****' Photo by IVatneuke, Glasgow. FRANCIS JOSEPH AMOURS. MEMOIR.1 The death of our distinguished contributor, Monsieur Francis Joseph Amours, has deprived Scotland of a profound student of the national literary antiquities. Perhaps there is no other instance of a French- man getting so complete a mastery of Old Scots, and thus winning recognition as a foremost authority. He was born on 23rd No- vember 1841 at the village of Tilleul-Othon in Normandy, in the department of Eure, the son of Pierre Joseph Amours and Rosalie Adele Conard. So well were the foundations of his education laid by the good cure of Tilleul-Othon that on his going, at the age of eighteen, to the College of Bernay he proved a brilliant student. Under Principal Roger he was dux in all subjects, and carried off the -prix d'honneur offered by the Minister of Education. He took his degree of Bachelier-es-Lettres of the University of France at Caen in 1862. By this time he seems to have given up any idea of entering the Church, and he became for a short while a Regent in the College of Lisieux; In 1864 he was granted unlimited leave {conge d’inac- tivitt sans traitemenf) from the Minister of Education, who was then the famous historian, Victor Duruy. Passing over into Eng- land, he taught in a private school in Gloucestershire until 1867. He was then appointed assistant to M. Havet, a well-known French master in Edinburgh, where he resided until 1869, when he was chosen French master in Glasgow Academy. After fifteen years there he was preferred to the like position in Glasgow High School, where he remained until his retiral on a pension after twenty years’ service in 1904. During those five and thirty years of active teaching in this country he passed through his hands a very large number of students of French, and there are many who remember with grat- itude and admiration (chequered, of course, with the godly fear inseparable from the part) his systematic and thorough methods of instruction, and his encouragement of pupils of promise.