It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honour. It fell to Neville Chamberlain in ...
Among the prominent Scotsmen killed in the battle were the Marischal of Scotland, the Chamberlain, Chancellor and the Constable, the Earls of Moray and Strathearn and the king’s half-brother Neil of Carrick. Graham of Liddesdale, the Earls of Menteith, Wigtown, Sutherland and Fife were captu...