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Edward I. On his tomb in Westminster Abbey is the inscription “Edwardus longus Scotorum Malleus hic est” (Here is long Edward, the hammer of the Scots).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.