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Excerpt from Charters, Writs: And Public Documents of the Royal Burgh of Dundee, the Hospital Johnston's Besides the Inventory, the Council very properly desired to have some knowledge of the Charters and Writs of the Burgh, and resolved that a selection of these Writs of importance, and of the Acts of the Council of a public nature should be printed for general information. In early and troublous times, and amid continued national controversies, Dundee, being an important centre of conflict, suffered severely. A history of Dundee, therefore, cannot be of local interest merely, but would, to a considerable extent, be a history of Scotland in its most trying and critical times. The many conflicts in and around Dundee, and the hostile occupation to which the Town had frequently been subjected, have no doubt been the cause of many of our ancient Writs and Charters being abstracted or destroyed. The Records prior to the year 1520 have been altogether lost to us, but from that year onwards the Records of the Burgh are in a good state of preservation. Notwithstanding these misfortunes, there are still extant many of our original Charters and Documents of historical interest and importance. The rights and privileges of Dundee as a Royal Burgh extend back long prior to any Charter now left to us. The right of Robert the Bruce to the throne was in 1309 acknowledged by a National Council of the Clergy held in Dundee, and Bruce himself was afterwards frequently in the Town, and seemed desirous to restore to the Burgh these ancient rights and privileges. This is evidenced by his Commission of Enquiry, on the report of which his Charter of Confirmation in 1327 mainly proceeds, and which probably is about the earliest Charter of any Royal Burgh now extant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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