In AD 1296, the 9th indiction, 26th day of July, at Elgin in Moray, Robert, bishop of Glasgow, came to the faith and will of the lord king of England; in the presence of the bishop of Durham, and the noble lords, John of Hastings, John Wake, Peter Corbet, Robert of Hilton, Walter of Huntercombe, and William Sampson, Barons, and the Notary; and he annulled the alliances, contracts, agreements, and pacts that were at any time entered into with the king of the French against the king of England in his name; and having taken the holy gospels and kissed them, he performed fealty to the lord king of England; and upon his fealty performed in this way, he made his letters patent, sealed with his pendant seal.