BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS ACCESSION TO THE THRONE—EDWARD'S EARLIEST PROCEEDINGS THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS MIDDLE PERIOD OF EDWARD'S LIFE, A.D. 1279–1290 RETROSPECTIVE VIEW SCOTTISH AFFAIRS—THE ARBITRATION—THE WAR A.D. 1291–1296 TROUBLES WITH FRANCE—WAR IN SCOTLAND THE WAR WITH FRANCE, AND VARIOUS TROUBLES AT HOME, A.D. 1297 WILLIAM WALAYS, A.D. 1297, 1298 PROLONGATION OF TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND—PARLIAMENTARY DISCUSSIONS IN ENGLAND, A.D. 1299–1302 THE DISAFFORESTING QUESTION—THE COMMISSION OF TRAILBASTON, ETC., ETC., A.D. 1299–1305 THE SETTLEMENT OF SCOTLAND, A.D. 1303–1305 BRUCE'S REBELLION: THE WAR WHICH FOLLOWED.—THE DEATH OF EDWARD: HIS CHARACTER