Letters Testimonial of Auditors on Bruce-Balliol Pleadings, 1292
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- Sources
- Name
- Letters Testimonial of Auditors on Bruce-Balliol Pleadings, 1292
- Description
- A 1292 legal document recording the auditors' declaration that competitors in the Scottish succession dispute (Bruce, Balliol, and others) had concluded their pleadings, allowing King Edward I to proceed to judgment. The document names Mark, Bishop of Man, as one of the witnesses/ecclesiastical advisors present at Berwick on Tweed, confirming Man's ecclesiastical connection to the Scottish crown during the medieval period.
- Date
- Saturday before the festival of St. John the Baptist, 1292
- Collection
- Scottish and English Contention
- Type
- Primary Source Transcription
- Date Created
- 1292
- Creator
- Auditors appointed by King Edward I
- Audience
- King Edward I of England and Scotland
- Language
- Anglo-Norman French and English