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Excerpt from The Bruce, or the Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince, Robert De Broyss, King of Scots: Books I-XThe Second Part will contain the text (books XI - XX), the Notes, and a Glossarial Index.The best authority for the true text of The Bruce is the ms. In St John's College, Cambridge this was used to some extent by Professor Cosmo Innes, but has never till now been printed.As the first 25 leaves of this ms. Are, unfortunately, missing, the portion at the beginning, down to 1. 56 Of Book IV, on p. 78, is printed from the Edinburgh ms, collated with Hart's edition and occasionally with Anderson's edition The read ings from Hart are marked with H, and those from Anderson are marked with A.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.