Tartan Cloth Notebook Large Blank: Ramsay Blue (Nov)

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The Ramsays are of Anglo-Norman origin. The ancestor of the Ramsays of Dalhousie was Simon de Ramsay, granted lands in Lothian by David I.
Many Ramsays appear in charters between that date and 1296 when that
of William de Ramsay appears in the ‘Ragman Roll’ – the instruments by
which the nobility and gentry of Scotland were compelled to subscribe allegiance to Edward I of England in 1292, and again in 1296. In 1314 Ramsay supported Bruce at Bannockburn and signed The Declaration of Arbroath, a document penned by the Scottish nobility on April 6, 1320, and addressed to Pope John XXII. It served as a formal declaration of
Scotland’s independence and a plea for papal recognition of Robert the
Bruce as the rightful king.

This commonplace notebook is bound in genuine Ramsay Blue tartan,woven in Great Britain. Commonplace notebooks date back to the Scottish Enlightenment. Many thinkers and writers used a commonplace notebook for writing down ideas and knowledge including Adam Smith, Robert Burns, David
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  • 13573
  • EAN/ISBN
  • 9781849345705
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