In July 1297 the noble leaders of the Scottish rising in Ayrshire — including Robert Bruce, the Bishop of Glasgow and the Stewart — submitted to English negotiators at Irvine after hesitating to commit fully to armed resistance. The Irvine Capitulation left Wallace and Murray to fight on without the support of the great magnates. The episode revealed the deep division between the conservative nobility and the popular resistance: the nobles sought negotiated terms while Wallace pursued war to the end.
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