The settlers had suffered most from the effects of the invasion, and of the evils which had accompanied it.   They had all the weakness of a foreign element which needed externalhelp to enable it to develop. And this external help, as already noted  had for some time been missing. The Bruces had been fought by the Normans in Ireland, and not by the Crown of England. Even less help were the settlers to get during the period that followed, for Edward III was ... Read More