M.West.p.

415.
*** Rymer, vol.ii.p.

577, 578, 579.
**** Rymer, vol.ii.p.

546.
Edward next deliberated concerning the method of proceeding in the discussion of this great controversy.

He gave orders that Baliol, and such of the competitors as adhered to him should choose forty commissioners; Bruce and his adherents forty more: to these the king added twenty-four Englishmen: he ordered these hundred and four commissioners to examine the cause deliberately among themselves, and make their report to him:[*] and he promised in the ensuing year to give his determination.