A letter from the nobility, barons and commons of Scotland, in the year 1320, yet extant under all the seals of the nobility, directed to Pope John: : wherein they declare their firm resolutions, to adhere to their King Robert the Bruce, as the restorer of the safety, and liberties of the people, and as having the true right of succession: but withal, they notwithstanding declare, that if the king should offer to subvert their civil liberties, they will disown him as an enemy, and choose another to be king, for their own defence. Translated from the original, in Latine, as it is insert by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, in his observations on precedency, &c..
Edinburgh, : [s.n.],
re-printed in the year 1703..
The Declaration of Arbroath.
Calling on the Pope to exhort the King of England to stop attacking Scotland.
Engish and Latin in parallel columns.
ESTC
Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329
Edward II, King of England, 1284-1327
Catholic Church. Pope (1316-1334 : John XXII)