Declaration of Arbroath sent to the pope
April 1320
Scottish nobles dictated a letter to John XXII at Avignon: for as long as a hundred of them remained alive, they would never submit to English rule. 'It is not for glory, riches, or honours that we fight, but for freedom alone.' The declaration bore the seals of thirty-nine Scottish magnates. The pope took notice.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.