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'Wallace rejects the English proposals', 1864. William Wallace, (c1270-1305)) rejects the English proposals, carried by two Dominican monks, telling them to return with the message that he and his men had come, not for peace, but for war. He began his rebellion against English rule in 1297. From A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485 by James E. Doyle. [Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, London, 1864]