Bute

Cabinet 7

‘Sir, An ingenious poem, now intitled the Bruciad, has lain about forty years in obscurity, waiting, as it would seem, for that happy era, when (next to that of the hero) the two most renowned names of antiquity (and of the poets eulogy) STUART and DOUGLAS, uniting in one person…’.

So begins the editor’s preface of John Harvey’s heroic six books on Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland. Book III introduces the famed Scot, one who in 1311, during the Wars of Scottish Independence, took Rothesay Castle from the English.

[John Harvey], The Bruciad: An Epic Poem. London: Printed for J. Dodsley; and J. Murray, [and four others], (1769).