Many a week passed before the garrison of Aberfilly and the vassals of the Kerrs were able to sleep in peace, so great was the scare which Archie's raid had inflicted upon them.
The truce was now at an end.

The indignation excited by the treachery of the English spread widely through Scotland, and the people flocked to Wallace's standard in far greater numbers than before, and he was now able to undertake operations on a greater scale.

Perth, Aberdeen, Brechin, and other towns fell into his hands, and the castle of Dundee was invested.

In the south Sir William Douglas captured the castles of Sanquhar, Desdeir, and others, and the rapid successes of the Scots induced a few of the greater nobles to take the field, such as the Steward of Scotland, Sir Andrew Moray of Bothwell, Sir Richard Lundin, and Wishart, Bishop of Glasgow.
Wallace was one day lamenting to Archie and his friend Grahame that the greater nobles still held aloof.

"Above all," he said, "I would fain see on our side either Comyn or the young Bruce.