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On February 23rd 1310 the Declaration of the Clergy and People in favour of King Robert I, was issued from the Church of the Friary Minor in Dundee.

Another where the dates differ, 24th February and  March 17th 1309, take your pick!  

Now the 1309 one I can explain away, It’s an almost identical to the one almost a year later and it was drawn up at The Bruce’s first Parliament, a sort of letter of intent, both declarations were significant factors in legitimising Robert the Bruce’s claim to the Scottish crown and the First War of Independence, against the ‘Inglis’ (English). The 1309 Parliamentary Declaration, made by the lay magnates, pronounced that Robert de Bruce, Lord of Annandale, the ‘Competitor’, had had the superior title to the throne of Scotland, and ought, by the laws and customs of the realm and the wishes of the people, to have become King. Bruce was declared to be the true and nearest heir of King Alexander last deceased.

Basically it was saying that The Bruce’s Grandfather who was known as the Competitor, should have been named as King over John Balliol, I see this paving the way to legitimise King Robert’s reign.

The second was a proclamation that the church, and the people of Scotland supported King Robert I. Let’s not get any ideas that this included the ordinary people of our land, history shows it wasn’t until modern times that the ordinary man got the vote, the ordinary women coming even later! The people of Scotland that were in the declaration were the Lords and other nobles, a large section of which were second and third generation Anglo-Norman stock, married into the mormars and earldoms of the Scots.

These documents are for all intents and purposes propaganda tools, they declared their support for the king and his claim to the throne while praising his military skills in defending the kingdom. They were however also showing that the Scottish Church were behind the Bruce and swearing fealty to him. Without going into the full text here is an extract of what it said

“… with the concurrence and consent of the said people he was chosen to be King, that he might reform the deformities of the kingdom, correct what required correction and direct what needed direction; and having been by their authority set over the kingdom he was solemnly made King of Scots, and with him the faithful people of the kingdom will live and die as with one who, possessing the right of blood, and endowed with the other cardinal virtues, is fitted to rule, and worthy of the name of King and the honour of the kingdom, since… by repelling injustice, he has by the sword restored the realm thus deformed and ruined.

… We therefore, the Bishops, Abbots, Priors and the rest of the clergy, aforesaid… have made due fealty to our said Lord Robert, the illustrious King of Scotland,… and we acknowledge … that the same ought to be rendered to him and his heirs by our successors for ever…”

Many see the documents as precursors to the more well known Declaration of Arbroath, although at the time Robert still had a large number of Scottish nobles who were against him, mainly those loyal to the Comyns, and some still with a forlorn hope that The Balliols would return, this they did, but were coerced by Edward III of England, this was all after The Bruce died.

At the time the of the Declaration The Bruce controlled Scotland north of the Tay, the south of Scotland was still largely in the hands of the English, or those who were vassals to them, the first War of Scottish Independence was far from over and in August 1310 King Edward II invaded Scotland for the first time in his own right.

Read the wording on the declaration here https://www.rps.ac.uk/search.php?a=fcf&fn=roberti_trans&id=284&t=trans

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On 22nd June 1680, Reverend. Richard Cameron and around 20 of his followers rode into the town of Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire.

At the town cross, they dismounted and sang a psalm before Michael Cameron read a "declaration"

This so-called Sanquhar Declaration, naturally, was viewed as an act of treason and the heads of all involved were declared forfeit to the Crown. The Declaration deserves notice, both on account of the prominence given to it at the time by the persecuted Presbyterians and also because it was used as an excuse for criminal prosecution of those who acknowledged it. “Do you own the Sanquhar Declaration? ” was a question to which an answer of `yes` meant they would be subjected to whatever punishment the whim of the judges or the soldiers in the field might see proper to inflict - usually death, often on the spot. The era was after all known as The Killing Time.

The Sanquhar Declaration regarded as a manifesto of a highly treasonable nature because it disowned King Charles as the lawful king of the realms, and coming so soon after the battle of Bothwell Bridge, it was the means of stimulating the persecution of the Covenanters. It led directly to a Proclamation that Richard Cameron and his associates were Rebels and Traitors, and rewards were offered for them dead or alive. Moreover, the attention of the government became focused on that part of the country where this Declaration was made public with land owners required to assist and interrogate their tenants for information.

This requirement also gave information of those who did not appear or take the required oath, thus identifying potential supporters of the Cameronians. As a result the army was the instrument of a merciless persecution and execution of the Covenanters in the south west of Scotland.

I’ve condensed this as much as I can, the Killing Time was an awful period for Scotland.  As with a lot of wars the cause was religion I am not a religious man so cannot really work out what drives this need to take lives in the name of their god.  

So what of those involved in The Sanquhar Declaration? I pass you on to the capable, and most excellent hands of Mark Jardine, and his Book of Martyrs. https://drmarkjardine.wordpress.com/…/wanted-dead-or-alive-…

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