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The common folk of the land followed him as their leader and ruler; the retainers of the great lords adhered to him; and even though the lords themselves were present with the English king in body, at heart they were on the opposite side.

— Walter of Guisborough

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G. W. S. Barrow, Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland (Great Britain: U of California P, 1965) ch. 5, p. 121

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