The Earl of Annandale refused to acknowledge this assumption.

Baliol bowed to it; and for such obedience, the unrighteous judge gave him the crown.
Bruce absolutely refused to acknowledge the justice of this decision; and so to avoid the power of the king who had betrayed his rights, and the jealousy of the other who had usurped them, he immediately left the scene of action, going over seas, to join his son, who had been cajoled away to Paris.

But, alas! he died on the road of a broken heart.
"When his son Robert (who was Earl of Carrick in right of his wife) returned to Britain, he, like his father, disdained to acknowledge Baliol as king.

But being more incensed at his successful rival, than at the treachery of his false friend Edward, he believed his glossing speeches; and--by what infatuation I cannot tell--established his residence at the monarch's court.

This forgetfulness of his royal blood, and of the independence of Scotland, has nearly obliterated him from every Scottish heart; for, when we look at Bruce the courtier, we cease to remember Bruce the descendant of St.David-Bruce the valiant knight of the Cross, who bled for true liberty before the walls of Jerusalem.
"His eldest son may be now about the age of the young knight who has just left us; and when I look on his royal port, and listen to the patriotic fervors of his royal soul, I cannot but think that the spirit of his noble grandsire has revived in his breast, and that, leaving his indolent father to the vassal luxuries of Edward's palace, he is come hither in secret, to arouse Scotland, and to assert his claim." "It is very likely," rejoined Helen, deeply sighing; "and may Heaven reward his virtue with the crown of his ancestors." "To that end," replied the Hermit, "shall my hands be lifted up in prayer day and night.