Excerpt from The Douglas Romance
You must understand that the twenty-fifth Earl of Douglas who figures in this tale is the lineal descendant of the Good Sir James Douglas - the famous Black Douglas, who forms, with Robert the Bruce and Sir William Wallace, the great triumvirate of Scotland's national heroes.
You must understand that he traces his descent through James, son of Archibald, Earl of Moray (died 1455), and nephew of James, ninth Earl of Douglas (died 1488), with whom the senior line of Douglas was long supposed to have come to an end, since nothing less than the stamping-out of the great House, to whom Scotland owed her independence of England, would satisfy the jealousy of the Stuart Kings. Twice already had these Royal Jameses, by the assassination of William, the sixth Earl, and his brother David, in 1440, and William, the eighth Earl, in 1452, endeavoured to secure the extinction of the Black Douglas.
This boy was secreted away, therefore, and lost to sight, his inheritance being mostly handed over to the Red Douglas. If the Red Douglas had stood by his Chief instead of by his King, there is small doubt that The Douglas would have secured the Throne of Scotland, out of the melting-pot into which his nation, like other nations, was thrown at the end of the Middle Ages.
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