Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Mutuwar dan uwansa William, Ubangijin Douglas, da ɗan'uwansa Sir Archibald a Halidon Hill ya bar gadon gado na Douglas ga Hugh. Duk da haka, Scotland a wannan lokacin yana tafiya ta hanyar paroxysms na
Yaƙin 'Yanci na Biyu, kuma Edward III da Edward Balliol sun mallaki yawancin kudancin ƙasar. Balliol, bayan da ya ba da girmamawa ga mulkinsa ga Edward, ya kuma ba da kyauta ga Masarautar Ingila, har abada, da gandun daji na Selkirk, Ettrick da Jedburgh, da kuma shires na Roxburgh, Peebles, Dumfries, Linlithgow, Edinburgh da Haddington - a zahiri, duk yankunan da Ubangijin Douglas ke da mallaka. Edward ya sake nada Douglasdale zuwa Robert de Clifford, 3rd Baron de Clifford, jikan Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, wanda Edward I na Ingila ya ba shi bayan da ya rushe Masarautar Scots a 1296. Clifford bai taɓa jin daɗin sabbin kaddarorinsa ba, ta hanyar juriya mai ƙarfi daga mutanen Douglas wanda William Douglas na Lothian ya jagoranta.