2-713-439 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Lady Mary Bruce exposed, as a public spectacle at Roxburgh Castle, by order of Edward the first', 1773. Lady Mary Bruce [1282-1323] during the First War of Scottish Independence, was captured by the English and imprisoned in a cage at Roxburgh Castle for four years. After Samuel Wale (1721-1786). From "A New and Complete History of England, From the Earliest Period of Authentic Intelligence to the Present Time", by Temple Sydney. [J. Cooke, London, 1773]