[3] No such mass killing of Scots nobles by the English took place around this time, although Edward I of England did become more ruthless very near the end of his life, executing several of Robert the Bruce's supporters.

[4] Book 4 of Barbour's epic poem The Bruce, an important near-contemporary source, mentions very briefly that "Sir Ranald of Crauford also, and Sir Bryce the Blair, were hanged in a barn at Ayr", but the context implies that this took place in 1306, the year after Wallace's execution.

[5] Whether intentional or not, the purported incident seems to have been a counterfactual reorganization of plagiarized, inflated, roughly contemporary events.

However, Reginald Crawford was made Sheriff of Ayr in 1296,[6] which is difficult to reconcile with the traditional story.

A version of this incident appears in the film Braveheart, where Wallace is shown as witnessing the mass hanging as a boy.