Ah! Freedom is a Noble Thing
John Balliol had to decide whether his first loyalty was to the throne of Scotland or to the man who put him there.
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A Scottish clergyman and poet of the fourteenth century, who is regarded as the father of the country’s vernacular poetry.
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