Kirkcaldy of Grange

Kirkcaldy of Grange

The materials available for a biography of Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange are very unequally distributed over the two portions into which his life naturally divides itself. For the first of them, I have been obliged to content myself with the rather meagre and fragmentary information to be gathered from the old chroniclers. As regards the incidents that occur during those earlier years, I cannot, therefore, claim much novelty for my sketch. By looking closely into dates, however, I have been able to rectify some minor details, and to set forth events in their proper sequence. On the second part of Sir Williams public career, the documents preserved in the Record Office throw considerable light. Some of them have been utilised, to a certain extent, in connection with the general history of the time; but, so far as I know, no attempt has yet been made to base on them a connected narrative of this important period of Granges life, or to draw from them an explanation of his policy. By using his own correspondenceboth the letters which he wrote, and those which were addressed to himI have endeavoured to represent the man as he wished to be understood by his contemporaries. It has not been my special object to justify Kirkcaldys[6] conduct; but I am not without the hope that the impartial account of it which I have striven to give, may show how unfair it is to form an estimate of him from a consideration of the bare fact that he was, in turn, the champion of two conflicting parties. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 49019
Author: Barbé, Louis A.
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English