 His son, now Edward II, marched north through Nithsdale at the head of his father’s huge army and arrived at Cumnock Castle, on the 19 August 1307.Bruce continued to lie low in the hills of south-west Scotland and Edward II, one of the most powerful kings in Europe was left to hold court and carry on with the business of the day at Cumnock Castle for eight days in August.Intriguingly, one of the payments he made during that time was to a poor woman for bringing two dogs to him.