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01-Presidents Message (May-Jun 2020) The Thistletire SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2020 Caledonian Club of Florida West, Inc. Your Board 2019-2020 BOARD: Dear Members: President Mary Ellen McMahon Vice President I hope this newsletter finds you all well and the COVID didn’t affect you. Frank Dr. Phil Miner and I are both staying close to home (I’m trying to stay out of mischief as well). Secretary This definitely has been a unique year and I know I will be very happy to say Barbara Shaffer “goodbye” to 2020. Treasurer Jean Walker I wish I could give you exciting news of upcoming socials but alas that is not to be, at least as of now. The Highland Fling originally planned for November DIRECTORS:• 2020 has been postponed to sometime in March or April of 2021. The Donald Campbell committee has not finalized a date yet with Palm Aire C.C. but when they do Rachel “Gay” Haines I will definitely let you all know so you can mark it on your calendar. Allan McIlraith We only had one summer 530 social which was in July at Stotlemyers. We Dr. Mary Thompson have decided that any other socials will be “virtual”. The BOD has been Margaret (Peg) Tonn trying to think of events that can be held via Zoom. If you have any ideas/ Linda Mercurio • suggestions we would LOVE to hear from you. SPECIAL CHAIRPERSONS From what I understand the Heritage Society is still planning the Highland Membership Games. Hopefully we can bid adieu to COVID and start planning some new Dr. Mary Thompson socials for 2021 (can you tell I love saying 2021?). Thistle Editor Dr. Michael Wolfe Webmaster I miss you all so much and I’m “chomping at the bit” to get back to socializing. Paul Johnson Sunshine Lady My best to you all, Jennifer Meinert Mary Ellen Public Relations-Marketing Dr. Michael Wolfe Diane Heron The Declaration of Arbroath 6 April 1320 Overview 2020 marks the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath held by National Records of Scotland (NRS). The Declaration of Arbroath (Latin: Declaratio Arbroathis; Scots: Declaration of Aiberbrothock Scottish Gaelic: Tiomnadh Bhruis) is the name usually given to a letter, dated 6 April 1320 at Arbroath, written by Scottish barons and addressed to Pope John XXII. It constituted King Robert I's response to his excommunication for disobeying the pope's demand in 1317 for a truce in the First War of Scottish Independence. The letter asserted the antiquity of the independence of the Kingdom of Scotland, denouncing English attempts to subjugate it. Generally believed to have been written in Arbroath Abbey by Bernard of Kilwinning (or of Linton), then Chancellor of Scotland and Abbot of Arbroath, and 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 made similar points. The Declaration was intended to assert Scotland's status as an independent, sovereign state, and defend Scotland's right to use military action when unjustly attacked. Submitted in Latin, the Declaration was little known until the late 17th century and is unmentioned by any of Scotland's major 16th century historians. In the 1680s the Latin text was printed for the first time and translated into English in the wake of the Glorious Revolution, after which time it was sometimes described as a declaration of independence. Declaration of Arbroath For 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 Source: with life itself". Wikipedia, Declaration of Arbroath, (undated). 6th April 1320 National Records of Scotland, Declaration of Arbroath, (undated). The Declaration was part of a broader diplomatic campaign, which sought to assert Scotland's position as an independent kingdom, rather than its being a feudal land controlled by England's Norman kings, as well as lift the excommunication of Robert the Bruce. The pope had recognised Edward I of England's claim to overlordship of Scotland in 1305 and Bruce was excommunicated by the Pope for murdering John Comyn before the altar at Greyfriars Church in Dumfries in 1306. This excommunication was lifted in 1308; subsequently the pope threatened Robert with excommunication again if Avignon's demands in 1317 for peace with England were ignored. Warfare continued, and in 1320 John XXII again excommunicated Robert I. In reply, the Declaration was composed and signed and, in response, the papacy rescinded King Robert Bruce's excommunication and thereafter addressed him using his royal title. The wars of Scottish independence began as a result of the deaths of King Alexander III of Scotland in 1286 and his heir the "Maid of Norway" in 1290, which left the throne of Scotland Details of the Declaration of Arbroath vacant and the subsequent succession crisis of 1290-1296 6 April 1320 ignited a struggle among the Competitors for the Crown of Scotland, chiefly between the House of Comyn, the House of Balliol, and the House of Bruce who all claimed the crown. After July 1296's deposition of King John Balliol by Edward of England and then February 1306's killing of John Comyn III, Robert Bruce's rivals to the throne of Scotland were gone, and Robert was crowned king at Scone that year. Edward I, the "Hammer of Scots", died in 1307; his son and successor Edward II did not renew his father's campaigns in Scotland. In 1309 a parliament held at St Andrews acknowledged Robert's right to rule, received emissaries from the Kingdom of France recognising the Bruce's title, and proclaimed the independence of the kingdom from England.[ By 1314 only Edinburgh, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Roxburgh, and Stirling remained in English hands. In June 1314 the Battle of Bannockburn had secured Robert Bruce's position as King of Scots; Stirling, the Central Belt, and much of Lothian came under Robert's control while the defeated Edward II's power on escaping to England via Berwick weakened under the sway of his cousin Henry, Earl of Lancaster. King Robert was thus able to consolidate his power, and sent his brother Edward Bruce to claim the Kingdom of Ireland in 1315 with an army landed in Ulster the previous year with the help of Gaelic lords from the Isles. Edward Bruce died in 1318 without achieving success, but the Scots campaigns in Ireland and in northern England were intended to press for the recognition of Robert's crown by King Edward. At the same time, it undermined the House of Plantagenet's claims to overlordship of the British Isles and halted the Plantagenets' effort to absorb Scotland as had been done in Ireland and Wales. Thus were the Scots nobles confident in their letters to Pope John of the distinct and independent nature of Scotland's kingdom; the Declaration of Arbroath was one such. According to historian David Crouch, "The two nations were mutually hostile kingdoms and peoples, and the ancient idea of Britain as an informal empire of peoples under the English king's presidency was entirely dead." Versions, copies and facsimiles The document in National Records of Scotland is the "file copy" of the Declaration: the only version to survive in its original form. It was kept with the rest of the national records in Edinburgh Castle until the seventeenth century. When work was being done on the castle, the Declaration was taken for safekeeping to Tyninghame, the home of the official in charge of the records. While there it suffered damage through damp and it returned to the custody of the Deputy Clerk Register (the predecessor of the Keeper of the Records of Scotland) in 1829. Conservation staff at the NRS monitor the Declaration to ensure it survives for many centuries to come. Although the Declaration was damaged during its absence from Edinburgh Castle, the full text was known from an engraving made in the Some of the Seals attached to the early eighteenth century, which was re-engraved around 1815 by William Declaration of Arbroath Home Lizars and Daniel Lizars. HELLO!We’re HELLO! glad to have you as a member. 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