1783 Copy of 1202 Royal Charter Ayr King William Document For Sale

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1783 Copy of 1202 Royal Charter Ayr King William Document:
$450.00

COPY OFROYAL CHARTER AYR

KINGWILLIAM 1202

L. R."A. Bell Princl. Scot.& Wal. Sculptor fecit EDIN 1783

Thesecond page of the document is written in pen and ink;

"Copy of theCharter granted by King William the Lion to the Royal Burgh of Ayr 1202.

Presented to JohnGribbel of St. Austell Hall Wyncote Penn. USA on the occasion of his visit toAyr Scotland 29 July 1920"

Jm. Maltin Morbet (sic)Proctor of Ayr

P.A. Thomson Town Clerkof Ayr

The earliest recorded history of the market town Ayr is during the reign of theScottish King ‘William the Lion’ (1165-1214). This famous king had a woodencastle built between the mouths of the rivers Ayr and Doon. The settlement thatgrew beside the castle was granted Royal Charter in 1205, this founding theRoyal Burgh of Ayr. By 1263, the town of Ayr had to fight off an invasion byVikings. Although that invasion was successfully repelled, the English army ofEdward 1st (Longshanks) took control of the town in 1296, along with most otherparts of Scotland. This was a time when a local of Ayr ‘William Wallace’(1270-1305) began his rise to fame. Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) born atTurnberry Castle 15 miles south of Ayr, used the town for his first parliamentto conduct his succession to the Scottish throne. The next famous local of Ayrwas John Loudon Macadam born in 1756; he pioneered the building of roads madefrom layers of different size of broken stone. Three years later, Scotland’smost famous poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) was born in Alloway village to thesouth of Ayr. Much of present-day Ayr has buildings, statues, pubs andmonuments dedicated to Robert Burns and William Wallace.