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
History of the Scots language the land of the English in the Kingdom of the Scots" and why the early 13th century author of "de Situ Albanie" thought that the Firth of Forth "divides the kingdoms of the Scots and of the English". Most of the evidence suggests that English spread further into Scotland via the burgh, proto-urban institutions which were first established by King David I. Incoming burghers were mainly English (especially from Northumbria, and the Earldom of Huntingdon), Flemish and French. Although the military aristocracy employed French and Gaelic, these small urban communities appear to have been using English as something more than