And in sum there were there slain, along with the Earl of Gloucester, forty-two barons and bannerets. The number of earls, barons, and bannerets made captive, was twenty-two, and sixtyeight knights. Many clerks and esquires were also there slain or taken. Roger de Northburge, keeper of the king's signet, (Custos Targice Domini Regis) was made prisoner with his two clerks, Roger de Wakenfelde and Thomas de Switon, upon which the king caused a seal to be made, and entitled it his privy seal, to distinguish the same from the signet so lost. The Earl of Hereford was exchanged against Bruce's queen, who had been detained in captivity ever since the year 1306. The Targia, or signet, was restored to England through the intercession of Ralph de Monthermer, ancestor of Lord Moira, who is said to have found favour in the eyes of the Scottish king.—Continuation of TRIVET'S Annals, Hall's edit. Oxford, 1712, vol. ii. p. 14.

Such were the immediate consequences of the field of Bannockburn. Its more remote effects in completely establishing the national independence of Scotland, afford a boundless field for speculation.

1 Supposed Clinton.

2 Maule.

END OF NOTES TO THE LORD OF THE ISLES.

OCCASIONAL PIECES,

NOT CONTAINED IN ANY FORMER EDITION OF

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S POETICAL WORKS.

PHAROS LOQUITUR.*

FAR in the bosom of the deep,
O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep;
A ruddy gem of changeful light,

Bound on the dusky brow of night,

The seaman bids my lustre hail,

And scorns to strike his timorous sail.

*["On the 30th of July, 1814, Mr Hamilton,1 Mr Erskine, and Mr Duff,3 Commissioners, along with Mr (now Sir) Walter Scott, and the writer, visited the Lighthouse; the Commissioners being then on one of their voyages of inspection, noticed in the Introduction. They breakfasted in the Library, when Sir Walter, at the entreaty of the party, upon inscribing his name in the Album, added these interesting lines."-STEVENSON'S Account of the Bell-Rock Lighthouse. 1824.]

1 The late Robert Hamilton, Esq. Advocate, long Sheriff-Depute of Lanarkshire, and afterwards one of the Principal Clerks of Session in Scotland-died in 1831.

2 Afterwards Lord Kinnedder.

Adam Duff, Esq. Sheriff-Depute of the county of Edinburgh,

356

LINES,'

ADDRESSED TO

RANALD MACDONALD, ESQ. OF STAFFA.

STAFFA, Sprung from high Macdonald,
Worthy branch of old Clan Ranald!
Staffa! king of all kind fellows!
Well befall thy hills and valleys,
Lakes and inlets, deeps and shallows--
Cliffs of darkness, caves of wonder,
Echoing the Atlantic thunder;
Mountains which the grey mist covers,
Where the Chieftain spirit hovers,
Pausing while his pinions quiver,
Stretch'd to quit our land for ever!
Each kind influence reign above thee!
Warmer heart, 'twixt this and Staffa
Beats not, than in heart of Staffa !

[These lines were written in the Album, kept at the Sound of Ulva Inn, in the month of August, 1814.]