There they dispatched a messenger into the island to inform Lord Mar that Sir William Wallace was on the banks of the Frith waiting to converse with him.

My noble father, unsuspicious of treachery, hurried to the summons.

Lady Mar accompanied him, and so both fell into the snare.
"They were brought prisoners to Stirling, where another affliction awaited him;-he was to see his daughter and his sister in captivity.
"After I had been betrayed from St.Fillian's monastery by the falsehoods of one Scottish knight, and were rescued from his power by the gallantry of another, I sought the protection of my aunt, Lady Ruthven, who then dwelt at Alloa, on the banks of the Forth.

Her husband had been invited to Ayr by some treacherous requisition of the governor, Arnuf; and with many other lords was thrown into prison.
Report says, bravest of men, that you have given freedom to my betrayed uncle.
"The moment Lord Ruthven's person was secured, his estates were seized, and my aunt and myself being found at Alloa, we were carried prisoners to this city.

Alas! we had then no valiant arm to preserve us from our enemies! Lady Ruthven's first born son was slain in the fatal day of Dunbar, and in terror of the like fate, she placed her eldest surviving boy in a convent.
"Some days after our arrival, my dear father was brought to Stirling.
Though a captive in the town, I was not then confined to any closer durance than the walls.