A letter from the nobility, barons and commons of Scotland, in the year 1320, yet extant under all the seals of 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 withall, 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 M'kenzie of Rosehaugh, His Majesty's advocate, in his Observations on precedency, &c.
JohnXXII,Pope,-1334.
Mackenzie, George,Sir,1636-1691.Observations on precedency.
[Edinburgh] : Impressum juxta typum nuper Edinburgi excusum,
anno 1700.
English and Latin in parallel columns.
At end of text: Given at the monastry of Aberbrothock in Scotland, the sixth day of April, in the year of grace M.CCC.XX. And of our said king's reign the XV. year.
Aldis, H.G.  Scotland,
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Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329
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