BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS

ACCESSION TO THE THRONE—EDWARD'S EARLIEST PROCEEDINGS

THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS

MIDDLE PERIOD OF EDWARD'S LIFE, A.D. 1279–1290

RETROSPECTIVE VIEW

SCOTTISH AFFAIRS—THE ARBITRATION—THE WAR A.D. 1291–1296

TROUBLES WITH FRANCE—WAR IN SCOTLAND

THE WAR WITH FRANCE, AND VARIOUS TROUBLES AT HOME, A.D. 1297

WILLIAM WALAYS, A.D. 1297, 1298

PROLONGATION OF TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND—PARLIAMENTARY DISCUSSIONS IN ENGLAND, A.D. 1299–1302

THE DISAFFORESTING QUESTION—THE COMMISSION OF TRAILBASTON, ETC., ETC., A.D. 1299–1305

THE SETTLEMENT OF SCOTLAND, A.D. 1303–1305

BRUCE'S REBELLION: THE WAR WHICH FOLLOWED.—THE DEATH OF EDWARD: HIS CHARACTER