The Battle of Stirling Bridge Upon rejoining his force Sir William Wallace called the few knights and gentlemen who were with him together, and said to them: "Methinks, gentlemen, that the woes of this contest should not fall upon one side only.

Every one of you here are outlawed, and if you are taken by the English will be executed or thrown in prison for life, and your lands and all belonging to you forfeited.

It is time that those who fight upon the other side should learn that they too run some risk.

Besides leading his vassals in the field against us, Sir John Kerr twice in arms has attacked me, and done his best to slay me or deliver me over to the English.

He fell yesterday by my hand at Stirling, and I hereby declare forfeit the land which he held in the county of Lanark, part of which he wrongfully took from Sir William Forbes, and his own fief adjoining.