Bruce himself had offered to capitulate to Prince Edward.

But the offer only roused the old king to fury.

"Who is so bold," he cried, "as to treat with our traitors without our knowledge ?" and rising from his sick-bed he led his army northwards in the summer of 1307 to complete the conquest.

But the hand of death was upon him, and in the very sight of Scotland the old man breathed his last at Burgh-upon-Sands..