Excerpt from A General History of Scotland, Vol. 3: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present TimeEdward began now to be more ¿exible mth regard to David and his friends. He {hcwed hiinfelf willing to lilien to a treaty, in which David {hould be confidered as a principal and a truce was in the mean time concluded. Be tween his plenipotent'iaries and the Scotch cormhi¿ioners, Sir Alexander Seton and lieu-v rence Prefton, which was to continue -from'. February to Midfummer following. Edward, after this, prepared for his French expedition, but left the earls of Arundel and Angus his ge nerals in Scotland, with plenipotentiary powers in all civil adairs. About this time, the royal intercit in Scotland received a heavy blow by the death of the guardian, Sir Andrew Murray, who had with equal integrity and fuccefs te fiored, in {nine meafure, the independency of his country, after it was thought to have been~ irretrievably ruined.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.