After that there were skirmishes and excursions, but Edward II was a weak prince, and it seemed that the marriage of David and the Princess Joan would bring about a permanent peace between the two countries; but it was not to be so." "Many of the English nobles held claims by marriage or grants upon lands in Scotland.

They had, of course, been driven from these when the English were turned out by Bruce.

By the terms of the marriage treaty in 1328 it was agreed that they should be reinstated.

It was a foolish clause, because it was plain that the King of Scotland could not take these lands again from the Scotch nobles who had possession of them, many of them being well-nigh as powerful as himself.

At this time Edward Baliol, son of the great rival of Robert Bruce, was in England.