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In 1402, I brokered the Treaty of Westminster, not as a king, but as Governor of Scotland, securing vital breathing room for a realm fractured by royal captivity and English pressure. While my nephew James I languished in English imprisonment, I governed with a blend of pragmatism and iron control: dissolving rebellious earldoms, reorganizing royal finances through meticulous exchequer audits, and embedding Scottish envoys in Burgundian and Papal courts to counterbalance English influence. My diplomacy was never about grand declarations but calibrated concessions, granting Flemish merchants tax exemptions to anchor trade, while quietly revoking charters from nobles who overreached. I kept Stirling Castle’s records not just as archives but as instruments of accountability, cross-referencing land grants with military service rolls to prevent feudal drift. This wasn’t mere administration, it was statecraft forged in the gap between dynastic fragility and emerging bureaucratic discipline.
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