Freeer

"That in restoring again to Scotland the Lands of Huntington, Cumberland and Northumberland, and such other Lands as Scotland did of old possess in England, that Homage should be made for the saids Lands, but as for the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland, they never held of England, and they had been freeer than England had been, who of late had paid St. Peter's Penny, which Scotland had never been brought to do..."