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Barbour was a native of Aberdeen, a well educated man and served as Archdeacon at St. Machar's Cathedral for 40 years. He was not of noble birth and his date of birth and parentage are uncertain but by virtue of his ecclesiastical office we can trace him not only in the public records of both Scotla .. .. more >>

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1		Freedom
2		The Brus Book 18
3		The Brus Book 19
4		The Brus Book 20
5		The Brus Book I
6		The Brus Book II
7		The Brus Book III
8		The Brus Book IV
9		The Brus Book IX
10		The Brus Book V
11		The Brus Book VI
12		The Brus Book VII
13		The Brus Book VIII
14		The Brus Book X
15		The Brus Book XI
16		The Brus Book XII
17		The Brus Book XIII
18		The Brus Book XIV
19		The Brus Book XV
20		The Brus Book XVI

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"Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
Freedom makes man to have liking:
Freedom all solace to man gives:
He lives at ease that freely lives!"
John Barbour (1316?-1395), Scottish poet, prelate, scholar. The Bruce (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.

"That is coupled to foul thraldom.
But if he had assayed it,
Then all perquer he should it wit;
And should think freedom more to prize
Than all the gold in world that is."
John Barbour (1316?-1395), Scottish poet, prelate, scholar. The Bruce (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.

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John Barbour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Barbour (c. 1316 – March 13, 1395), Scottish poet, was born, perhaps in Aberdeenshire, early in the 14th century, approximately 1316. ...
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§2. John Barbour; "The Bruce". V. The Earliest Scottish Literature ...
In John Barbour, the author of The Bruce, we have a typical example of the prosperous churchman of the fourteenth century. As we may surmise from his name, ...
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Barbour
Scottish ecclesiastic and author of 'The Bruce', a historical poem in the early Scottish or Northern English dialect, b. about 1320; d. 1395.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02288b.htm

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