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...however, the English marched north under Edward II to make an end of the wild laird they called "King Hob"-the royal yokel. The armies met at Bannockburn, a village before Stirling Castle. In the opening skirmish, King Robert was caught alone in an open strath, by an English knight who leveled his lance and charged in for the kill. As the Scottish host stared stupefied, Bruce lightly eluded the lance and then brought his battle-axe down with such force that the English knight was split from skull to saddle...
...because it was a draft, but because it was English. After he was led to the lockup, a band of bagpipers skirled round the building playing a composition in his honor, The Unjust Incarceration. In 1944 he ran gallantly, although unsuccessfully, for Parliament on a platform of. roughly, "Remember Bannockburn." More or less in the spirit of things, he published, while lecturing at Aberdeen University, something called The Aidd Aberdeen Courant and Neo-Caledonian Spasmodical. But his most bravely brandished weapon is Lallans, a braw dialect of lowland Scots, little known today to Scots who are not classicists...
...such a lapse can be pardoned in a young scholar; even Sellar & Yeatman, in 1066, failed to give sufficient attention to the tactics of Alfred the Cake at Bannockburn...
Married. Diana Denyse, Countess of Erroll, 20, who, as hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland (an honor bestowed upon Ancestor Sir Gilbert Hay by Robert Bruce in 1314 after the Battle of Bannockburn), ranks within Scotland's borders immediately after the Royal Family; and Captain Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe, 27, special assistant to Britain's Ambassador to the Soviet Union; in London...
...Bannockburn, where he grows acres of onions, Mitchell Frederick ("Mitch") Hepburn once more broke out his battle flag. Last week Canada's most unpredict able politician returned to the Liberal fold he left two years ago, when he quit as Ontario's Premier and abandoned his Party, thus contributing to its defeat...