Letters Testimonial of Auditors on Bruce-Balliol Scottish Succession Pleadings, 1292
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- Name
- Letters Testimonial of Auditors on Bruce-Balliol Scottish Succession Pleadings, 1292
- Description
- A formal legal document from 1292 recording auditors' certification that competing claimants to the Scottish throne (Robert Bruce, John Balliol, and others) had concluded their pleadings before King Edward I at Berwick-on-Tweed, allowing the King to proceed to judgment. The document is significant for Manx history as it mentions Mark, Bishop of Man, as one of the witnesses/judicial officers present, establishing the Isle's ecclesiastical participation in major medieval British constitutional proceedings.
- Date
- Saturday before the festival of St. John the Baptist, 1292
- Collection
- Scottish and English Contention
- Type
- Legal Opinion
- Date Created
- 1292
- Creator
- Auditors appointed by King Edward I of England
- Audience
- King Edward I; the competing claimants to the Scottish throne
- Language
- Anglo-Norman French and English