Among those addressed as his allies were the Earls Comyn of Badenoch, Comyn of Buchan, Patrick of Dunbar, Umfraville of Angus, Alexander of Menteith, Malise of Strathearn, Malcolm of Lennox, and William of Sutherland, together with James the Steward, Nicholas de la Haye, Ingelram de Umfraville, Richard Fraser, and Alexander de Lindsay of Crawford.

From this enumeration it is clear that Wallace had still many enemies to contend with at home as well as the force of England.

Patrick of Dunbar, assisted by Robert Bruce and Bishop Anthony Beck, took the field, but was defeated.

Wallace captured all the castles of the earl save Dunbar itself, and forced him to fly to England; then the Scotch army poured across the Border and retaliated upon the northern counties for the deeds which the English had been performing in Scotland for the last eight years.

The country was ravaged to the very walls of Durham and Carlisle, and only those districts which bought off the invaders were spared.