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