(C-dERLJLVElltO.tp C jL S T L m .
f The- Roman encampment on this Kill might probably be the
Mxelumof Ptolemy, efpecially ' i f we are to derive that word from
■the Britijh, Ucheli, high : for the fite o f the fortrefs o f Caerla-
\weroc, is on fuch a flat as by no means to admit of that epithet,
or to be allowed to have been the antient Uxelum as Mr. Horfely
Iconje&ures.
t The caftle has undergone its different lieges gg the firft that ap-
jpears in hiftory and the moft celebrated was in the year 1300,,
Iwhen Edward I. fat down before it in perfon. Enraged at
¡¡the generous regard the Scots ihewed for their liberty, and the-
funremitted. efforts made by their hero Wallace, to free his country
1from a foreign yoke, the Euglijh monarch fummoned his barons,,
land all the nobility who held o f him by military tenure to attend
| with their forces at Carlile,. on the feaft of St. John the Baptijl.
■ On that occafion,. as the poet o f the expedition relates, there -
| appeared,,
foiflant et vint et fept banieres *.
| each of which, with the arms o f the baron, are illuminated in a
1 beautiful manner; and in the catalogue are the names-f of the-
I moil: puiflant peers o f this kingdom, with a little euloge on each : >
I as a fpecimen, ,is given ■ that on Robert- Clifford, in whom it may be
S fuppofed valour and beauty were combined :
» 1 » E ft ;
* I am indebted to Marmaduke Tunjiall, Efq; for the M. S. account o f this fiege, •
finely copied from the original, in the Mu/eum; which appears to have been com-
¡»fed in very old and bad French, foon after the event i t celebrates*
t
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