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A Short History of Scotland

CHAPTER IX
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All members, of whatever Estate, sat together in the same chamber.

There were no elected Knights of the Shires, no representative system.
The reign of David II.

saw two Scottish authors or three, whose works are extant.

Barbour wrote the chivalrous rhymed epic-chronicle 'The Brus'; Wyntoun, an unpoetic rhymed "cronykil"; and "Hucheoun of the Awle Ryal" produced works of more genius, if all that he is credited with be his own..


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