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Anglo-Scottish Relations 1174 - 1328: Some Selected Documents

by E.L.G. Stones

Summary

This book, which first appeared in 1965 as one of Nelson’s Medieval Texts, is now reprinted, with corrections, and with the bibliography brought up to date. It has already come to be used as the standard edition of the main documents concerning the relations of England and Scotland down to 1328. The subject is an important part of the political history of the British Isles during the Middle Ages, and a very large number of documents survive, chiefly in the Public Record Office and the British Museum, to illustrate it. A selection appears in this volume, including a number hitherto unpublished, or available only in unsatisfactory printed texts. It includes a number of contemporary propagandist documents, and part of the famous adjudication by Edward I in the dispute for the Scottish crown in 1291-2. The original Latin and French texts are translated on the facing pages. The introduction discusses the chief trends in Anglo-Scottish relations during the period, the contemporary archives (which have never before been studied as a while), and the limitations of the previously existing printed collections of sources. Edward Lionel Gregory Stones (1914-1987) was an authority on Anglo-Scottish relations during the reign of Edward I. Born in Croydon and educated at the High School of Glasgow, he studied English language and literature at the University of Glasgow from where he graduated with an M.A. with first class honours. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class honours degree in modern history in 1939. Stones served in the Royal Signal Corps during the Second World War, rising to the rank of major. Stones was a lecturer in history at the University of Glasgow from 1945 to 1956, completed his Ph.D. there in 1950, and became Edwards Professor of Medieval History there in 1956. He retired in 1978 and was succeeded in the Edwards chair by Alfred Lawson Brown. His papers are held at the University of Glasgow Archives. Stones died in 1987.