Despite the murders, the Douglases came to dominate the Scottish court ... that would echo the Black Dinner some nine years earlier. In 1452 James invited William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas ...

Burns invokes icons of Scottish independence such as William Wallace (c.1270-1305), Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) and James 'the Black' Douglas (d.1330) to incite patriotic passion for Scottish ...