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Letters Testimonial of Auditors on Bruce-Balliol Scottish Succession Pleadings, 1292

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

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.

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  • Anglo-Norman French and English