"THE SCHOLAR'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND." [To THE Rama or THE
"Sesomoli.”J
SIR,—May I be allowed to express a regret that I should have expressed myself as badly as to have led your very friendly reviewer (Spectator, February 21st) to have thought that I accepted H. H. Lancaster's view that the depression of Scotland was attributable to the success at Bannockburn ? I accepted it as due to the "estrangement of Scotland from England." That estrangement was due to the uncontrollable pugnacity of the Scots, their readiness to provoke trials of strength regardless of odds, and their willingness to be used as pawns in the French game. The French alliance, out- wardly so specious, was from first to last a curse to Scotland. From the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War to the time Of Henry VIII.. the English Government, as a rule, was only too glad to leave the Scots alone if the Scots would let it
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