In the year [1296], Indiction [9], month [July] and place [Montrose] recorded immediately before, but on the 12th day of the said month, there being present [the noble lords, John Tregotz, Walter de Beauchamp, Thomas of Bicknor, and John Merk, knights,] as witnesses, and the notary, the lord William de Balliol, rector of the church of Kirkpatrick, came into the trust and obedience of the king of England, and 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 seals.