Todd wrote
There are a lot of great books written for real people, and not just stuffy academic types about historical subjects that are waiting to be read
And a grand example of this is Scottish Chiefs by Miss Jane Porter. My copy, which is a Rand McNally & Co. edition from before 1910, proclaims that Wallace WAS NOT hanged drawn and quartered as history tells us, but that he died in captivity, and his body spirited back to Scotland for respectful though secret burial. According to Miss Porter, the body drawn and quartered belonged to a common felon who bore a resemblance to Wallace (IIRC)

It is a good read but I wouldn't take most of it as historical fact.

BTW, there are a couple of other editions of Scottish Chiefs available on line, but they are different editions from mine. If you are interested, there is one edition posted at Electric Scotland http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...mestic/chiefs/ and another edition at A Celebration of Women Writers: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/wom...fs/chiefs.html