Alexander Burnet, later Archbishop of St. Andrews, commented that, "we always reckoned those eight years of usurpation a time of great peace and prosperity".
亚历山大·伯内特, 也就是之后圣安德鲁斯的大主教, 评论说, "我们不得不承认那八年同样也是一个伟大的和平与繁荣时期"。