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Rh In 1328, Edward, wearied with continual losses and disappointments, consented to a peace between the two kingdoms, on the following conditions:—1. The stone on which the kings of Scotland were wont to sit at the time of their coronation, shall be restored to the Scots. 2. The king of England engages to employ his good offices at the Papal court for obtaining a revocation of all spiritual processes depending before the Holy See against the king of Scots, or against his kingdom, or subjects. 3. For these causes, and to make reparation for the ravages committed in England, the Scots shall pay 30,000 merks to the king of England. 4. Restitution shall be made of the possessions belonging to ecclesiastics in either kingdom, whereof they may have been deprived during the war. 5. But there shall not be any restitution made of inheritances which have fallen into the hands of the king of England, or of the king of Scots, by reason of the war between the two nations, or through the forfeiture of former possessions. 6. Johanna, sister of the king of England, shall be given in marriage to David, son and heir to the king of Scots. 7. The king of Scots shall provide the Princess Johanna in a jointure of £2000 yearly, secured on lands and rents, according to a reasonable estimation. 8. If either of the parties shall fail in performing these conditions, he shall pay 2000 pounds of silver to the Papal treasury.

By this arrangement the title of Bruce was established, and the remainder of his public life was occupied in framing laws for consolidating the power which he had acquired. The hardships and suffering's Bruce had encountered, brought on a disease at that time called leprosy, and the last two years were spent in comparative seclusion in Cardross Castle, on the northern shore of the Frith of Clyde