Brewer's: Hammer of the Scotch

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).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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