Baldred Bisset
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Baldred Bisset was a medieval Scottish lawyer
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

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During the Scottish Wars of Independence, he was responsible for the Scottish submissions to the papal curia
Roman Curia
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 of 1301. Along with his colleagues William Frere
William Frere
William Frere , was an English lawyer and academic, a law-serjeant and Master of Downing College, Cambridge.-Life:Frere was the fourth son of John Frere of Roydon, Norfolk, and younger brother of John Hookham Frere. He was born 28 November 1775. He was sent to Felsted School and Eton College, and...

 and William of Eaglesham he prepared the Scottish case for sovereignty in the face of English claims and aggression by drawing upon and modifying the existing literature dealing with the foundation myths of the Scottish people
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

, as well as those of the other inhabitants of Great Britain
Great Britain
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, and with a lawyer's eye appraising the historical treaties between the two nations such as the Treaty of Falaise
Treaty of Falaise
The Treaty of Falaise was an agreement made in December 1174 between the captive William I, King of Scots, and the English King Henry II.Having been captured at the Battle of Alnwick during an invasion of Northumbria, William was being held in Falaise in Normandy while Henry sent an army north and...

 of 1174-1189 and their evolution or repudiation. He was deprived of the parsonage of Kinghorn
Kinghorn
Kinghorn is a town in Fife, Scotland. A seaside resort with two beaches, Kinghorn Beach and Pettycur Bay, plus a fishing port, it stands on the north shore of the Firth of Forth opposite Edinburgh...

 by King Edward I of England
Edward I of England
Edward I , also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved early in the political intrigues of his father's reign, which included an outright rebellion by the English barons...

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