The "Appendix To The History Of Scotland" denies the succession of Margaret to the throne of Scotland. According to that genealogy: "After the death of Alexander the third, which was in the year of the World, 5255, in the year of Christ, 1285, there were six Regents appointed to rule Scotland: For the South-side of Forth were appointed Robert the Archbishop of Glasgow, John Cummin, and John the Great Steward of Scotland: For the North-side of Forth, Mak-duffe Earl of Fife, John Cummin Earl of Buchan, and William Fraser Archbishop of St. Andrews, who ruled the Land about the space of seven years, until the controversy was decided betwixt John Balliol and Robert Bruyse, grandfather to Robert Bruyse the King of Scotland, who did come of the two eldest daughters of David Earl of Huntingdon; for Henry Hastings, who married the youngest daughter, put not in his suit or claim with the rest, and therefore there is little spoken of him." "John Balliol was preferred before Robert Bruyse to be King of Scotland, by Edward the 1st, surnamed Longshanks, King of England, who was chosen to be the Judge of the controversy; which preferment was upon a condition, that John Balliol should acknowledge King Edward the 1st as superior; which condition, like an unworthy man, he received."