ABSTRACT
Owing to the multiplicity of affairs which engaged Wallace's attention after the capture of Stirling, the ladies of Lord Mar's family had not seen him since his first visit to the citadel. The Countess had passed this time in writing her dispatches to the numerous lords of her house, both in Scotland and in England: and by her subtile arguments she completely persuaded her husband of the cogency of putting the names of Lord Athol and Lord Badenoch into the list of noble prisoners he should demand.
