Following his rising in Lanarkshire, Wallace extended operations northward and in the summer of 1297 seized Scone, the traditional coronation site of Scottish kings, expelling the English justiciar William Ormesby who barely escaped. The seizure of Scone was symbolically and administratively crucial: it reasserted Scottish sovereignty over the most sacred royal site and denied England its key instrument of civil government north of the Forth.
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