Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the Declaration of Arbroath Statue on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Arbroath, Angus, Scotland. The Declaration of Arbroath declared Scottish independence, set out to confirm Scotland's status as an independent, sovereign state and defended Scotland's right to use military action when unjustly attacked. It is in the form of a letter submitted to Pope John XXII, dated 6 April 1320. Sealed by fifty-one magnates and nobles, the letter is the sole survivor of three created at the time. The others were a letter from the King of Scots, Robert I, and a letter from four Scottish bishops which all presumably made similar points. " As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself. ".
The two figures represent Bernard, Abbot of Arbroath, who in April 1320 oversaw the drafting of the "Declaration of Arbroath" and Robert The Bruce, King of Scots.
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