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Letters Testimonial of Auditors on Bruce-Balliol Pleadings, 1292

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Saturday before the festival of St. John the Baptist, 1292

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.

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  • Anglo-Norman French and English