In August 1296 at Berwick, Edward I compiled the Ragman Roll, a document containing the seals of around 1,500 Scottish landholders, clergy and burgesses swearing fealty to the English crown. The Ragman Roll was the legal instrument that formalised English conquest after the military campaign and castle garrisons. Its collection required Edward to hold court at Berwick while Scottish submission delegations arrived, a process that demonstrated both the apparent completeness of English victory and the coercive conditions under which the submissions were made.
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