The political vacuum of the Scottish Interregnum created opportunities for English border lords to raid and encroach on Scottish territory. Without a king to lead military responses, the Guardians had difficulty organising effective defence. The border instability of 1291-92 prefigured the much more serious conflict that would follow when Edward I used his arbitration role to begin treating Scotland as an English dependency rather than an independent kingdom.
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