The life of Sir William Wallace, the governor general of Scotland, and hero of the Scottish chiefs. By Peter Donaldson.

THE LIFE
ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS,
OF THE CELEBRATED
SIR WILLIAM WALLACE,
GOVERNOR GENERAL OF SCOTLAND.
SIR WILLIAM WALLACE was descended o
an ancient and noble family. He was the son of Sit
Malcom Wallace, of Ellerslie, whose progenitors were
the ancient knights and baronets of Craigie. His
mother was daughter of Sir Ronald Crawford, High
Sheriff of Ayre. He was born in 1288, during the
reign of William, surnamed the Lion, and the usurpation of Donald, Lord of the isles. In his childhood,
he lived with his parents at Ellerslie, and fled with
them from place to place during Edward's nine years'
usurpation and oppression, in domineering over them,
when their country was reduced to a mere province
under the martial laws of foreign invaders.
Sir William Wallace, even in his youth, before he
arrived at the seventeenth year of his age, could not
refrain from molesting the oppressors of his country.
For, in 1302, when Edward cruelly oppressed the
land, had destroyed all the ancient monuments and
records, and shed much innocent blood, Malcom Wallace, the father of our hero, was forced to flee with
his eldest son Malcom, into Lennox, among his re