Still he might have escaped, had he not
turned to rescue Sir William St. Clair, of Roslyn; but in doing this he
was so entangled, that he saw no escape, and taking from his neck his
precious charge, he threw it before him, shouting aloud, "Pass onward as
thou wert wont! I follow, or die!" He followed, and died. His corpse
was found on the battle-field lying over the heart of Bruce, and his
friends, lifting up the body, bore it back again to his own little
church of St. Bride of Douglas, where it lies interred; while the
crowned and bleeding heart shines emblazoned on the shield of the great
Douglas line, a memorial of the time and hearty love that knit together,
through adversity and prosperity, the good King Robert and the good Lord
James. The heart itself was given into the charge of Sir Simon Locard,
of Lee, already the keeper of the curious talisman called the Lee Penny,
brought by Earl David of Huntingdon from the East; but he did not deem
it needful to carry his burthen to Jerusalem, and it was buried beneath
the altar at Melrose Abbey, Sir Simon changed his name to Lockhart, and
bore on his shield a heart with a fetterlock, on his crest a hand with a
key, and for his motto, "_Corda serrata pando._"
Here, then, we close the first series of Cameos, during which we have
seen the Norman conquerors gradually become English, and the kingdom
take somewhat of its present form.
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