sentences:  The plaque on the commemorative cairn records that it was along this old toll road that Robert Burns and Richard Brown made their way to the woods of Eglinton.In 1297 Edward I sent a punitive expedition under Sir Henry Percy to Irvine to quash an armed uprising against his dethronement of John Balliol.The Earl of Carrick, Robert Bruce and others led the Scottish army, however after much argument they decided to submit without a fight.