Pope Celestine III writes to King William of the Scots, recalling the king’s longstanding reverence and devotion to the Roman church, and decreeing that the Scottish church, which is a special daughter of the apostolic see, ought to be subject directly to it with no intermediary. In the Scottish church, the following sees are known to exist: St Andrews, Glasgow, Dunkeld, Dunblane, Brechin, Aberdeen, Moray, Ross and Caithness. No one but the Roman pontiff or his legate a latere can promulgate interdicts or excommunications in the kingdom of Scotland. In the future no one who is not from this kingdom is permitted to exercise a legatine office there, except one whom the apostolic see may send specially from itself for this purpose. Controversies which arise in the kingdom about its possessions should not be referred to judges outside the kingdom, with the exception of appeals to the Roman church. No prejudice can be generated to the liberties granted here by documents which have been, or in future will be impetrated, where no mention is made of this grant. The liberties and immunities indulged by previous Roman pontiffs to the king, to the kingdom, and to the churches situated therein, and observed up to the present, are held as ratified.