Replica of the Declaration of Arbroath, Arbroath Abbey

Written at Arbroath Abbey during the long wars of Independence on 6th April 1320 and directed to the Pope. Its most famous lines are "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 original manuscript is held by the National Records of Scotland.