In exchange for ceding the region of Lothian to England, Balliol was given assistance and replenished forces.

On 25 March 1333, the small Scottish force intercepted the English at the village of Dornock.

[2] The rest of the Scots fled, and Douglas was imprisoned for two years under special instructions from King Edward.

[4] The Scottish poet Andrew Wyntoun noted the battle in his verse: That ikle tyme at LowchmabneOff Annandyrdale the floure was tane With off the West Marche men That had thame in till Ingland then.

That was bot erlys for to tell Off infortwne that efftyr fell.A well in the area was known as the sword well by the late 18th century, probably because artefacts of the battle were discovered near to there.