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vilization and not of race, we beg to suggest. The English influences were none the less strong for this, and, in the end, they have everywhere prevailed. But the Scotsman may like to think that mediaeval Scotland was not divided by an abrupt racial line, and that the political unity and independence which it obtained at so great a cost did correspond to a natural and a national unity which no people can, of itself, create. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Spanish and Venetian Calendars of State Papers. Cf. especially the reference to the succour afforded by Scotland to France in Spanish Calendar, i. 210.] [Footnote 2: _Historical Essays_, First Series, p. 71.] [Footnote 3: _History of the English People_, Book III, c. iv.] [Footnote 4: _History of Scotland_, vol. i, p. 2. But, as Mr. Lang expressly repudiates any theory of displacement north of the Forth, and does not regard Harlaw in the light of a great racial contest, his position is not really incompatible with that of the present work.] [Footnote 5: _History of England_, p. 158. Mr. Oman is almost alone in not calling them English in blood.] [Footnote 6: _History of Scotland_, vol. ii, pp. 393-394.] [Footnote 7: Instances of the first tendency are Edderton, near Tain, _i.e._ _eadar duin_ ("between the hillocks"), and Falkirk, _i.e._ _Eaglais_ ("speckled church"), while examples of the second tendency are too numerous to require mention. Examples of ecclesiastical names are Laurencekirk and Kirkcudbright, and the growth of commerce receives the witness of such names as Turnberry, on the coast of Ayr, dating from the thirteenth century, and Burghead on the Moray Firth.] [Footnote 8: Cf. _Waverley_, c. xliii, and the concluding chapter of _Tales of a Grandfather_.] [Footnote 9: William of Newburgh states this in a probably exaggerated form when he says:--"Regni Scottici oppida et burgi ab Anglis habitari noscuntur" (Lib. II, c. 34). The population of the towns in the Lothians was, of course, English.] [Footnote 10: For the real significance of such grants of land, cf. Maitland, _Domesday Book and Beyond_, Essay II.] [Footnote 11: _Scotland under her Early Kings_, vol. i, p. 239.] [Footnote 12: Annalia, iv.] [Footnote 13: There is a possible exception in Barbour's _Bruce_ (Bk. XVIII, 1. 443)--"Then gat he all the Erischry that war intill his company, of Argyle and the Ilis alswa". It has been generally understood that the "Erischry" here are the
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