 To counter Stewart influence, David II of Scotland pardoned John Logie in September 1343, son of a conspirator against Robert I of Scotland in 1320, and restored to him the large lordship of Strathgartney bordering the earldoms of Menteith and Lennox.Strathgartney had been held by Sir John Menteith of Arran and Knapdale’s family (cadets of the Stewarts and also former keepers of Dumbarton and guardians of Menteith).At the Battle of Neville’s Cross in 1346, the king was apparently deserted by some of his subjects and led off to eleven years’ captivity in England.