This 724-year-old letter written in a form of Latin shorthand, is from the King of France to his agents at the papal court in Rome, in which he instructs them to support the Scottish knight Sir William Wallace in “those things which he has to transact”. National Archives in Kew, England [1388×1113]

Translation:

> Philip by the grace of God King of the French to our loved and faithful our agents appointed to the Roman Court, greetings and love.  We command/ you to request the Supreme Pontiff to consider with favour our beloved William le Walois [Wallace] of Scotland, knight/ in those things which he has to transact with him. Given at Pierrefonds on Monday after the feast of All Saints. [7 Nov 1300]

[https://blog.nrscotland.gov.uk/2018/10/01/the-wallace-letter-november-1300/](https://blog.nrscotland.gov.uk/2018/10/01/the-wallace-letter-november-1300/)

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