BRUCE WAS A BULLY.
“ Robert the Bruce was a feudal bully, and the story of Bruce and the spider is an invention.” This was the bold declaration made by Mr Thomas Johnstone, Under-Sec-retary of State for Scotland, in an address on history at the annual congress of the Educational Institute of Scotland at Greenock (as reported in the London Daily Chronicle). Mr Johnstone pointed out that in the winter of 1306-7 Bruce was spending his time, not in semi-starvation watching spiders in an island cave, but amid the rude comforts obtainable at the court of the Norwegian king. The old catalogue of more or less mythical dates of the births and doings and deaths of more or less useless people, said Mr Johnstone, was ) an educational impostme, ,
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Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1104, 10 March 1930, Page 6
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