The Highlanders had been in anarchy throughout the reign; their blood was let in the great clan duel of thirty against thirty, on the Inch of Perth, in 1396.
Probably clans Cameron and Chattan were the combatants.
On Rothesay's death Albany was Governor, while Douglas was taken prisoner in the great Border defeat of Homildon Hill, not far from Flodden.

But then (1403) came the alliance of Douglas with Percy; Percy's quarrel with Henry IV.

and their defeat; and Hotspur's death, Douglas's capture at Shrewsbury.

Between Shakespeare, in "Henry IV.," and Scott, in 'The Fair Maid of Perth,' the most notable events in the reign of Robert III.

are immortalised.