Hi folks,

of the lot to seeters, and this is part two of our

Edward Longshanks series, I'm John Bowe Bowe,

and we are going to be talking about hammering the Scots.

The bit I've been looking for today.

Yeah, so this episode, these two episodes on long shanks that deal with them more

thematically, chronologically as well, but last time we talked about nearly everything of importance

apart from the Scottish question. So in this one I want to do a whole episode on it.

I'll be quoting mainly from Mark Morris, Mike Morris's book on Ed with the first, because he goes into lots of detail, lots into lots of detail about the campaigns

many years worth of campaigns in Scotland and how things just got progressively

worse. So I guess we could just jump straight in. Yeah, I think it might be worth

contextualizing it. I mean, England doesn't actually invade Scotland that much

before this point point does it?

No that's one of the big elements is that for quite a few decades before this

they've been almost complete peace with the Scots. In fact just before we get into it can

I do a little segment on Eland of Castile, Edward's first wife, because I didn't talk about that last time and I think it is one of the

other elements that need to get mentioned.

Yeah, of course.

Along with Edward's treatment and the Jewish community, which we'll deal with at the end.

So his first wife, Erlan of Castile, there'd been...

Edward was completely faithful to her apparently.

She was pregnant like 14 times or something.

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