The Declaration of Arbroath was a plea for the liberty of man, and asked for the Pope's intervention in the bloody quarrel between the Scots and
the English. It is assumed to have been composed by Bernard de Linton, Abbot of Arbroath and Chancellor of Scotland, and is considered to be
the most important document in Scottish history.

The Declaration was ahead of its time since it set the will and the wishes of the people above those of the King, and later became a model for the American Declaration of Independence.