Ian Hamilton hatched a plan to steal the stone of destiny from where it was. It had been stolen away in 1296 by Edward the Ferns, the king of England. He'd taken it because he knew that the legend had it that Scotland could never prosper if this stone had gone. The English was supposed to give it back again, and in 1328 Edward III signed a treaty saying he would, but he never did. And so the stone was still sitting in England, which seemed to be a mark of Scottish subject projection.