Treaty of Berwick frees David II
1357
Eleven years after Neville's Cross, the Scottish king was ransomed for one hundred thousand marks payable in installments that would burden the kingdom for decades. Scotland mortgaged itself to recover its monarch. David returned to a country traumatized by plague, war, and English raids, with a treasury that would never quite catch up with the debt.
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