Abstract
The Political Background In late February 1359, David II returned to Scotland from a month-long diplomatic mission to London which had cost him at least £666. 2 It is clear that his aim on this trip had been to revive the plan which, as Professor Duncan has shown, the second Bruce king of Scots had first proposed to Edward III between 1349 and 1352: namely, to secure his release from the English captivity which had resulted from his capture in battle at Neville‘s Cross in 1346, not by paying a large ransom, but instead by recognising a younger son of the English king as his heir presumptive to the Scottish throne, in the event of his failure to sire a Bruce heir. 3
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