Edinburgh was captured by a stratagem.
Only Roxburgh and Berwick were saved by a truce which Edward was driven to conclude with the Scots.
[Sidenote: Progress of Parliament] But with the difficulties of the Crown the weight of the two Houses made itself more and more sensibly felt.

The almost incessant warfare which had gone on since the accession of Edward the Third consolidated and developed the power which they had gained from the dissensions of his father's reign.
The need of continual grants brought about an assembly of Parliament year by year, and the subsidies that were accorded to the king showed the potency of the financial engine which the Crown could now bring into play.
In a single year the Parliament granted twenty thousand sacks, or half the wool of the realm.

Two years later the Commons voted an aid of thirty thousand sacks.

In 1339 the barons granted the tenth sheep and fleece and lamb.

The clergy granted two tenths in one year, and a tenth for three years in the next.