Simon Fraser (died 1306) Edward's peace terms. In January he was employed, along with other Scottish knights, to hunt down his former comrade Wallace. In 1306 Fraser once again broke faith with King Edward and defected to Robert the Bruce. He escaped from the defeat at the Battle of Methven, but was captured in 1306 at a subsequent engagement at Kirkencliff near Stirling by Sir Thomas de Multon and Sir John Jose. King Edward's patience with Fraser was now at an end. The prisoner was sent to London, and hanged, drawn, and quartered in September 1306. His head was impaled on a spike on
Dictionary of the Scots Language Dictionary of the Scots Language The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) () is an online Scots-English dictionary, now run by Scottish Language Dictionaries, a charity and limited company. Freely available via the Internet, the work comprises the two major dictionaries of the Scots language: The DOST contains information about Older Scots words in use from the 12th to the end of the 17th centuries (Early and Middle Scots); SND contains information about Scots words in use from 1700 to the 1970s (Modern Scots). Together these 22 volumes provide a comprehensive history of Scots. The SND Bibliography and the DOST