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The next laird Sir Robert would further increase the Livingston estate by marrying a daughter of Sir Michael Wemyss and taking the lands of East Wemyss. (The Wemyss family were staunch supporters of Bruce in the Wars of Independence; Michael Wemyss had been petitioned by John Weston for supporting Bruce in 1306 and Edward Longshanks had forfeited his land in Midlothian. David Wemyss signed the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320.)