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LORD HIGH TREASURER OF SCOTLAND.-
EDITED BY
SIR JAMES BALFOUR PAUL,
F.S.A., Scot., Lord Lyon Kino of Arms.
VOL. IV. A.D. 1507-1513.
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF
HIS majesty's TREASURY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
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I. — Introductory Matter, pp. xi-xiv.
II.— Itinerary of the King during the Period
EMBRACED IN THE ACCOUNTS, pp. xiv-XXXViii.
III. — The Navy, pp. xxxviii-lxiii.
(1) The Royal Dockyards, pp. xlvi-lL
(2) The Great Michael, pp. li-lviii.
(3) The Mariners, pp. Iviii-lix.
(4) Provisions, pp. Ix-lxiii. IV. — Artillery, pp. Ixiii-lxxxi.
V. — Miscellaneous, pp. Ixxxi-lxxxviii.
ACCOUNTS OF THE LORD HIGH TREASURER.
I. — ACCOUNT BY James Beaton, Abbot of Dun- fermline, of his receipts and expenses from 6th September 1507 to 8th August 1508.
Charge. — Receipts from sherififs; Compositions at justice-ayres, and for charters, escheats, etc. ; rents of lands in the hands of the King, 1-13.
Discharge. — Wardrobe accounts of the King, 13 ; of the Queen, 28 ; of the Prince, 33 ; Alms and oflferings of the King, 34; Buildings and repairs (fabrica), 44; Servants' liveries, 49; Pensions, 67 ; Miscellaneous expenditure (Bursa Regis), 71.
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II. — Account by Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caith- ness, of his receipts and expenses from 6th August 1511 to 30th August 1512.
Charge. — Receipts from sheriffs ; Sums due from laat account; Compositions of remissions, escheats, charters, etc., 143-173.
Discharge Alms and offerings of the King,
174 ; Wardrobe accounts of the King, 191 ; of the Queen, 207 ; of the Prince, 218 ; of ladies of the Court, 219 ; Liveries to the King's henchmen and other servants, 233 ; of the Queen's servants, 255 ; Pensions, 267 ; Pay- ment to " pinours," etc., 273 ; Buildings and repairs, 275 ; The Navy and shipbuilding, 284 ; Accounts with James Samson, 300; Stable accounts, 307 ; Miscellaneous expenses, 309.
III.— Account by Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caith- ness, of his receipts and expenses from 14th August 1512 to 29th October 1512.
Charge. — Contributions from various ecclesi- astical dioceses, 360 ; Receipts from sheriffs, 355.
Discharge. — Wardrobe accounts of the King, 366 ; of the Queen, 367 ; Henchmen's clothing, 368 ; Embroiderers' expenses, 369 ; Ships, 369 : Servants* liveries, 369 ; Miscellaneous expenses, 370.
IV. — Account by Mr. Cuthbert Batllie of his receipts and expenses from 29th October 1512 to 8th August 1513.
Charge. — Eeceipts from sheriffs, 384; Arrears from last account, 384; Compositions of
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charters, ward, relief, marriage, etc., 385 ; rents of lands, 390 ; contributions from the dioceses, 391.
Discharge. — Miscellaneous expenditure, 396 ; Wardrobe accounts of the King, 420 ; of the Queen, 423 ; Servants' liveries, 427 ; Alms and offerings of the King, 437 ; Wages, 439 ; Works, Navy, etc., 444.
Appendix I. — Shipbuilding Accounts, 451.
Appendix II. — Accounts for Artillery and Arms, 508.
Appendix III. — Works at Koyal Palaces, etc., 523.
Appendix IV. — Detached entries.
PAOJS
GLOSSARY, 535
INDEX, 557-692
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P. 297 line 14, for Bromhill read Brounhill.
Note. — The names of the Shipwi'ights and Mariners at the end of Appendix I. are put in alphabetical order and are not included in the Index.
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The first of the accounts contained in this volume embraces the period from the 6th September 1507, the date on which the last account closed, to the 8th of August 1508. The Treasurer who is responsible for it was the same James Beaton who had been appointed to that office in 1505, and a sketch of whose career was given in the Preface to the last volume.* After he demitted office, on his appointment to the Arch- bishopric of Glasgow in 1509, he was succeeded by George Hepburn, Abbot of Arbroath and Bishop of the Isles ; he was a son of Hepburn of Hailes and uncle of the first Earl of Bothwell of that name. He got the Treasurership and his Bishopric in the same year, but almost immediately resigned the former, as he only held the appoint- ment up to some time between the 23rd August and the 1st October 1510.* He ultimately fell with the King at Flodden in 1513. No accounts of his have come down to us, so that there is a blank in the record from the last entry of his predecessor till the first of his successor. On his resignation his place was filled by Andrew Stewart,
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Bishop of Caithness, Commendator of the Abbeys of Kelso and Fern. He was, according to Craufurd, * a natural son of the House of Inner- meath, entered the Church — a common destination for illegitimate sons in the days with which we are dealing — ^and became distinguished, even in a time when such practices were thought little of, by the number of offices which he held. ^ There are two accounts of his in the present volume — the first covering the period from 25th August 1511 to 14th August in the following year, and the second from the last-mentioned date to the 29th October 1512. There are, however, entries in the former account as early as the 7th August. It is a fairly full and well arranged statement of the income and expenses of the Court, but the second account, which only extends over a few weeks, has been done in a very slovenly way; and at the date on which it comes to an end the Treasurer either resigned office or was dismissed from it. There is some ground for supposing that he did not give satisfaction. His last account contains the ** singular and suspicious entry," as Dr. Burnett observes,' "that the amount was fixed *ad SBStimationem,' according to an estimate, an expression which has not been elsewhere observed.
^Oflaoera of state, p. 369.
*For an account of this Bishop, see Exchequer Rolls, xiii., p. cxlvii.
'Exch. Rolls, iU supra.
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and even this estimate is only arrived at by his taking credit for a payment of £3,333 6s. 8d. to the King, an equally singular entry which does not occur in the account of any other Treasurer." The Bishop did not fall, though he fought, at Flodden ; perhaps it would have been better for his memory if he had ; he lived till 1618, when he died, practically in a state of bankruptcy, and was buried in the choir of the Cathedral of Dornoch.
His successor was Cuthbert Baillie, a cadet of the Lamington family of that name. He was Eector of Sanquhar and Commendator of the Abbey of Qlenluce. His only account in this volume is for the short period of a little more than nine months, being audited on the 8th of August 1513. He held office, however, till his death in the following year.
The principal feature in the present accounts is the large number of entries relating to the Navy, in the formation of which the King took such a pride. Not only in the body of the accounts themselves is there much information given con- cerning it, but in the Appendices at the end of the volume there will be found the detailed accounts of the Master of the Works, who had charge of the shipping, with much interesting matter relating to the building and outfit of the ships, the names and wages of the wrights, seamen, and gunners, the manner in which the vessels were provisioned, and many items regarding the supply of artillery both
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to the Eoyal navy and to the army which followed the King to Flodden. Many of these smaU and comparatively unimportant particulars given in the Appendices bring before us the manner of living and the general condition of the country at the beginning of the 16th century even more vividly than the necessarily mere general references in the main body of the Accounts themselves.
Itinerary of the King.
When we left the King at the close of the last volume of the Accounts he was on his return home after a hasty journey to the North. He was at Perth on the evening of the 5th September 1507, and in the present volume we find him making his usual offering in the Church of Eestalrig on the 9th; the following day he worshipped in the Rood Chapel, an edifice which stood almost half- way between Edinburgh and Leith, but of which no trace now remains. He seems to have been a good deal about this locality at the period, as only three days afterwards there is an entry of five shillings given to four men that rowed in a boat in the loch of Eestalrig "to affray fowles," or, in other words, to set up the water-fowl from the surface of the loch in order that they might become the prey of the King's hawks on the land. This Eestalrig loch was probably what is now
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known as Lochend. ^ On the 21st September the Court moved from Edinburgh to Stirling,* and from that point short excursions in the neigh- bouring district were frequently made. On the 22nd and 23rd the King was at Doune, and on the 29th he was worshipping in the chapel at Bannock- bum. ' In the beginning of October there is some discrepancy in the accounts : the account for the Eoyal alms indicates that at the beginning of the month the King was at the oil well at liberton and also at Peebles,* but it is possible that his alms at these places were bestowed by deputy, as in the general expense account it is clear that he was at Stirling on the 8th and probably for some days later.* It is likely that he returned to Edinburgh by the middle of the month, for he was at Whitekirk on the 16th and 17th. On the 19th he was at Hailes Castle, the seat of the Earl of BothweU, whose death must have taken place not long after the date of the Eoyal visit to his house. On the same evening James was in Dunbar, and on the following day he left that town and went to Cranshaws on a hawking expedition ; one of his hawks was lost, but was returned to him some weeks afterwards. ® On the 23rd he was in Edinburgh, but on the next day we find him at Stirling, and (notwithstanding an entry of an
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offering to a priest's first mass in St. Giles, Edin- burgh, which was probably done by deputy) he seems to have stayed here for some time, though he must have paid a flying visit to Haddington and the Capital itself from the 15th or 16th to the 19th of the month. ^ On the 20th he was back in Stirling, but on the 27th again in Edinburgh, where he remained till the 13th of December, when he left once more for Stirling. We have no certain knowledge of his movements immediately thereafter, but it is probable that Yule was as usual spent in Edinburgh with the customary festivities. About the 9th of January 1507-8 the Court made one of its many migrations from Edinburgh to Stirling, and there the remainder of that month was passed in quiet enough fashion, from all that we can gather from the accounts : there was hunting and hawking in the adjacent district : once the loch at Inchaffray appears to have been visited, as there is a payment of three shillings to men for raising herons to hawks from the loch.* Fishing does not seem to have been a Sport in which James ever indulged. Many presents of fish were brought to him, but these were probably caught by professional fishermen : he himself was not the sort of person to whom " the contemplative man's recreation " would naturally appeal. ,The inclement winter days, when outdoor sports were at a discount, were
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probably employed in chemical experiments with that arch-impostor the Abbot of Tongland. We read of two great caldrons being provided at this time for "quinta assentia," together with two pipes, which may have been retorts, saltpetre, and other chemicals. ^ The long January nights were devoted as usual to cards, song, and listening to the tales and quips of jesters.
The King was back in Edinburgh by the beginning of February. He developed at this time a practical interest in artillery, and, under the guidance of Hans, his master gunner, practised shooting with a culverin ; but this pastime of the King will be more fully dealt with later on.
On the 19th of February James left Edinburgh and proceeded to Stirling, where, however, he only remained till some time during the first week in March.^ He then visited Edinburgh, but only for a few days, as he was in Stirling again on the 16th. ' On the 21st we find him at Biggar en route for Whithorn, but without the Queen.* He was at the latter place by the 23rd, but left the same day and proceeded to Kenmure, where he was the guest of Sir John Gordon of Lochinvar ; on the 25th he returned by Drumlanrig to Biggar and was home in Edinburgh on the following day. While at Whithorn he presented to the Priory a reliquary costing £17 Is. ® By the 9th of April
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he was in Stirling once more, and stayed there over a fortnight, going on the 29th to Dunferm- line and on the 30th to St. Andrews. From there he ran over to Falkland, where he was on the 2nd of May, and then returned by way of Tillicoultry to Stirling. On the 12th of that month he returned to Edinburgh to welcome the great Lord of Aubigny, who had come to Scotland, having arrived in London on the 21st of March. He was attended by a large retinue, and brought a present of six horses for the King.* James was not to be outdone in generosity, and he gave in return to his distinguished guest seven horses with French saddles.* A great tourna- ment was given in his honour ; he dined at the same table with the King ; but a sad ending to all these functions was at hand. D' Aubigny suddenly took ill, and expired at Corstorphine about the 15th of June in his 61st year. His retinue took their departure by sea towards the end of the month. *
On the 27th June the King went to Pittenweem on board the ship Lion^ and the following day he was at Grail and Kilrenny, proceeding from there to St Andrews. On the 30th of June he paid a visit to the Isle of May to shoot sea-fowl with his culverin, though it is hardly likely that the Eoyal
* VoL iii., pp. xlv., xlvi. •P. 118.
•Pp. 42, 128. Diet of Nat Biography. Lady Elizabeth Gust's " Stewarts of Aubigny."
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sportsman shot his birds flying. On the 1st of July the King left the May and proceeded by Pittenween and St. Monance to Kinghorn, where he dined. From there he went to Aberdour, and took a boat to Inchcolm, then a centre of ecclesiastical influence and possessing one of the most interesting abbeys in Scotland. Founded by Alexander I., and richly endowed by pious donors, it had gone through many vicissitudes, but its buildings still bore evidence of its former great- ness, though the day was very shortly coming when as a religious house it would be a thing of the past. After spending a night at the abbey the King took boat and crossed the Firth to Leith, and within a very few dayswe find him settling down, so far as such a restless person could settle down, in Stirling ; here he remained for some weeks without taking any long expedition. Some incidents of his daily life are not, however, without a certain amount of interest as showing how he spent his time. On the 4th of July he rode over to Kinneil, an ancient possession of the Hamilton family (still held by its original owners), which had been bestowed on them by King Robert the Bruce. The object of the King's visit was to see the stud of the Earl of Arran : James was, as we have had frequently occasion to note in the course of these Accounts, a great lover of horses, and no doubt his visit was a congenial one : we hear of it in these
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pages from the fact that his gratuity to the stud- groom was five shillings. *
On the 5th there is an entry of 28s. to an Almayne — a Flemish or German artist " that suld make the Eangis lair in Cambuskenneth in marbill." We have previously seen that David Prat and his masons were at work in the Abbey building a tomb, apparently constructed of coloured mason- work :^ the present entry seems to indicate that a more costly addition was being made to the mausoleum. Perhaps the original work was an architectural canopy, and now it was designed to place a marble altar tomb beneath it. Dr. Laing is of opinion * that this monument was intended to be erected not in honour of his parents but as a final resting-place for the King himself; but, though the entries in the accounts style it " the King's lair," it is doubtful whether this expression does not refer to James III. Considering how the death of his father weighed on James's conscience all his Ufe, it would not be surprising to find him doing all he could to do honour to the memory of his predecessor on the throne. If, however, it was for himself that he meant it, his intentions were frustrated by his fate, as he lies far from his native soil ; * and of the sepulchre so carefuUy prepared not a trace remains in our day.
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We have indications that during the course of the month the King was hunting in the forest of Glenartney. This was probably towards the end of the month, as the Queen gave birth to a daughter on the 15th July. The child, however, did not long survive her baptism, but it is rather curious that the occurrence of such an event should have left no trace whatever in these accounts. It is unhkely that James would have been absent from home on such an interesting occasion, and we may suppose that he did not leave his wife till she was on the fair road to recovery. Having satisfied himself that things were going weU, he went off on his hunting expedition. He must have been attended by a large retinue, as we read of £5 2s. being distributed among three hundred and six men who were with him at the hunting. As this pay hardly amounted to a shilling each, it may be presumed that they were employed as beaters, or in some such subordinate capacity. Music, without which the King could not get on, was supplied by Lord Fleming's taubronar, who got 14s. for his fee. *
In the beginning of August James was in Edinburgh arranging for the sending of the young Earl of Moray to join his half-brother, the Bishop of St. Andrews, at the University of Padua,* and
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after this the account for this period comes to a close with the usual payments to the officials.
It is unfortunate that there is a gap in the accounts at this period, and we cannot take up from this source the story of the King's movements until the month of August 1516. The general history of the period can be briefly stated, and we learn some details as to doings of the Eoyal household from the Exchequer Rolls. We have seen that he was in Edinburgh in the beginnuig of August 1508. There are charters dated at Brechin on the 8th of that month, and at Perth on the 28th and 30th,^ which may point to his having undertaken one of his northern pilgrimages to St. Duthus about this time, probably to return thanks for the Queen's recovery. In September he was in Edinburgh; on the 7th November there is a charter dated at the Priory of Whithorn ; on the 4th of December he was at Jedburgh, holding a circuit court, and from there he proceeded to Melrose for the same purpose. It is probable that he then went to Falkland, and Christmas this year was kept at St. Andrews. About the 16th January 1508-9 the King returned to Edinburgh, but went back to St. Andrews on the 9th of February ; * on the 8th of March he attended the Parliament in
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Edinburgh.^ It is possible he may have visited Whithorn later in the month, as there is a charter dated at Kirkcudbright on the 17th.*
It must have been some weeks after the last- mentioned visit that news came to Scotland of the death of James's father-in-law, Henry VII. of England, which took place at Eichmond on the 21st April 1509. The event was an unfortunate one for James, for, as Mr. Tytler remarks, Henry's " caution, command of temper, and earnest desire of peace were excellent checks to the inconsiderate impetuosity of his son-in-law."
The King spent the few following months at Edinburgh and Stirling, but appears to have gone to Damaway, Inverness, and Tain in the course of the summer.^ On the 20th October Prince Arthur was bom, and after a short stay at StirUng the King kept Christmas, as was his usual custom, in Edinburgh. Thereafter he alternated between the Capital and Stirling till after Easter, when he rode with the Queen to St. Duthus by way of Elgin. On the 14th of July 1510 the young Prince died at Edinburgh, and in November the King went to Jedburgh to hold a circuit ayre, at which he dealt out condign punishment to many unruly Borderers, and succeeded in taming the turbulence of that part of the country for some time.*
^Ihid.y p. 333. •Reg. Mag. Sig. •Exch. RollB, xiii., pp. 203, 209, 288.
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We have very little information about James's movements for some time after this. From the testimony of the charters he would seem, as usual, to have alternated between Edinburgh and Stirling during the whole of the winter ; but as the season advanced he made one of his pilgrimages to Tain, where a charter is dated on the 27th May 1511. The 25th day of August in that year is the nominal date on which the next series of accounts begin, though there are entries in them as early as the 7th of that month. We find the King then in Edinburgh visiting the ship Margaret at Newhaven and bestowing a gratuity on a blind fiddler who was on board. He paid more than one visit to his ships at this time, as there are entries relating to the purchase of plums and "hony peris" at Newhaven in September.^ On the 28th he went to Stirling by Cambuskenneth. ^ This was only a flying visit, as we find him at Newhaven again on the 3rd October ; on the 5th he made an offering in the Chapel of St. Mungo at Culross, and another to St. Serfs "fertur" or reliquary. St. Mungo is said by tradition to have been born on the shore of the Forth at Culross and to have been educated and trained by St. Serf, although the story is disbelieved by Dr. Skene.* Still, these entries show that the belief is an ancient
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one. The King probably sailed up the Forth on this visit in the ship Margaret^ and continued his way to Stirling: the Queen returned in her to Edinburgh, ^ but whether James accompanied her is not clear. He was certainly at Inchcolm on the 10th October * and may have gone out with the fishermen dredging for oysters, as 7s. is paid for those dainties " to fischeraris on the say, quhen the King was in their boit." ® October was spent in Edinburgh and saw the launching of the Great Michael, On one of his walks the King had to pay forfeit to a bride of Leith who met him on the way "and wold have kissit hyme," though one can hardly understand how a man of James's procUvities should have refused so tender a greeting. On the 8th November he went to Stirling for a few days, but passed through Linlithgow on his return on the 13th, giving a gratuity to the masons who were working at the Palace. * The remainder of the year, and Christmas and Yule, were spent at Edinburgh. On the 8th of January 1511-12 a present was given to Eouge Croix Pursuivant, who had come from England with a message from Henry and was now about to set out on his return : with him was sent the Scottish Islay Herald, who got £18 4s. for his expenses. ^ Bouge Croix was Thomas Hawley, afterwards
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Carlisle Herald and Clarenceux King of Arms. The name of the Scottish Herald is not so certain : it may have been Peter Thomson ; ^ but, whoever he was, he was destined in a very few years to have still further dealings with Eouge Croix, both of them being professionally employed by their respective sovereigns immediately before the battle of Flodden. ^ On the 1 9th of January we find the French ambassador from Louis receiving a handsome present of silver plate, costing £114, previous to his departure for Denmark, whither he was sent in a ship commanded by William Mure of Leith, accompanied by Nicholas, one of James's master gunners, and the King's Chaplain, Sir Andrew Brounhill.* A curious entry occurs, too, about this time : a woman of the Blackford, who, as appears from the accounts, was in the habit of supplying the King with poultry and other farm produce for his table, brought four fat capons, for which she received the sum of 28s. ; but she evidently thought she was underpaid, and on her complaint to this effect she got as much again. * In February the King was taking much interest in his ships, and on the 22nd of that
*See Scottish Antiquary, viii., 14, where the name is given as "Petrufl Thomson, alias Hay^^^ the latter being in all probability, as Albany Herald is named immedi- ately after, a misprint for Hay.
" "Heraldry in relation to Scottish History and Art," by the present editor, p. 94; Webber's "Flodden," App. 338.
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month had supper in the Chreat Michael. ^ A few days afterwards he was turning his attention to surgery, for which he had always a great predilection, and drew two teeth from Kinnaird, his barber, an operation which we should have expected to have been reversed, as the extraction of teeth fell at that period within the province of the barber-surgeon.* On the 21st of March De la Motte, the French ambassador, who had been at the Scottish Court since the 12th, took his departure, receiving a present of £180, the expense of entertaining himself and his retinue during that time amounting to £17 15s. 6d. ; an ambassador from the Court of Spain, who left at the same time, got £95, together with a purse which cost 3s., and an EngUsh Herald who went with him received a gratuity of £18. The Frenchmen seem to have sailed— or ought to have sailed, for it is not clear whether they actually did do so — from Dumbarton, and the King was certainly there on the 23rd to see them ofF. They were probably detained some days, as James visited the ship on the 25th, on which day she was towed out by two boats and then got under way. * The King was in Edinburgh before the end of the month, and on the 3l8t was at Corstorphine and Kirkliston. Easter was spent at Linhthgow, and on Easter Eve, the 10th of
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April (though the fact is not directly recorded in the accounts) the Queen gave birth to a son, who was ere long to succeed his father as James V. of Scotland. ^ An indirect allusion to the Prince's birth, however, is made in an entry on the 14th of April, in which is recorded the dismissal of a nurse " to Brounfeildis wyff that suld have been nurice to the Prince, because scho got her leiff by the Kingis command . . . vij. li. " ; and on the 19th John Watson, a " surregeane," got £3 16s. for certain " confections," which were probably for the use of the Queen. ^ At this time also messengers were received with letters from the Pope and the King of Prance, and Marchmont and Islay Heralds were despatched, the one to the last-mentioned sovereign, and the other to the Court of England. James made his headquarters at Linlithgow for some time, though he paid short visits to Newhaven to superintend his ship- building. Towards the end of the month he made an expedition to Ayr and Ailsa, six horses being required to carry his baggage, which included crossbows and gunpowder.' Whether this expedition was of a warlike nature, perhaps con- nected with an attack by the cruisers of the
^Authorities differ as to the exact date of the Prince's birth^ but Easter Eve seems the most probable. See Dunbar's Scottish Kings, p. 219, note 41.
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English King on a French vessel which ran in for protection to an anchorage off the coast of Ayr,^ or whether it was merely a sporting excursion to shoot sea-fowl on Ailsa Craig, is not clear. Perhaps it was not of either character, but connected with some communication to the Duke of Albany, as on the 30th of April " Monsieur de Albanies Secretar " was given £36 " as his passage to France." This took place on the coast of Ayr, as we read of a payment to the men of Irvine that brought the King in a boat to land. * The baggage was probably sent on before the King, as on the very day on which we learn of his having been in a boat at Irvine he was also at Hamilton, where he gave 3s. to the bell-ringers, and at Ayr and the Lady Kirk of Kile. On the 3rd of May an excursion was taken by boat to St. Mary Isle, which may have been that islet now called Lady Isle, lying 2^ miles south-west of Troon. Though there is an entry of drinksilver on the 4th of May to the Abbot of Paisley's masons, the King remained in Ayr for some days after that date. He pur- chased a cloak and a plaid there.' He also paid a visit to Ailsa Craig, though for what purpose we do not know, though he must have gone with a considerable retinue, as 428. was paid for the boat which took him there and conveyed " his fockis "
^Tytler's Hist, of Scotland, iv., | >P. 344. p. 58. I 'P. 203.
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home again. Altogether, his visit seems to have extended over eleven days, and it is interesting to note his expenses while in Ayr, chiefly paid through the Master Cook, an official of some impor- tance in the household. The " gudman " of the King's lodgings got £4 4s. for the time specified, a door-keeper got 3s., and " uther poor servitouris" got 58. for drink and to " help thair horse." The assistant cooks and maidservants received 7s. between them, and when the Court got back to Linlithgow, on the 11th of May, the Master Cook was paid the sum of £4 14s. 4d. " for present silvir and rewardis," which he had probably dis- bursed during the King's stay in the west. James remained at Linlithgow till Whitsunday, when he came to Edinburgh. There he received ambassadors from England in the persons of Lord Dacre and Dr. West, the Dean of Windsor, who had been appointed to treat with the King for settUng differences. ^ At their departure on the 12th of June they received a very handsome present of silver plate of the value of £121 10s. ^ Eouge Croix Pursuivant at the same time got £7. Besides the English envoys, De la Motte, the French ambassador, was also in the country endeavouring, and with success, to prevail on James to renew the ancient league with Prance. Seven shillings was paid for his " herbry," or lodging, in
^Rymer's Fcedera, xiii., p. 333. | >P. 348.
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Linlithgow, and some time after '' Gelis Fercharis wyff" got £20 2s. 7d. for her expenses in enter- taining De la Motte and his servants for the space of twenty three days and a half, the Frenchmen leaving the Scottish coasts on the 7th of July.* In all the anxiety and warUke preparations of the period, it is interesting to note that other matters were not entirely lost sight of. Some French sheep seem to have been imported in 1511, and we find a shepherd paid for his labour in keeping them together with the other Eoyal flocks. * But the dominant note in the accounts at this period is undoubtedly war. Not to speak of the energy with which the building and preparation of ships was carried on, which will be more fully alluded to hereafter, we find messengers sent to various parts of the country with orders for the holding of wappinshaws, or gatherings, for the practice of arms, * and two emissaries were despatched to the coast — one to Fast Castle and the other to Fife — to "see for Inglis schippis." This was no idle errand, as Robert Barton, the brother of Andrew, who had been slain in an encounter at sea the year before with the English admiral, brought in thirteen English prizes during this month, so that from this, and from the fact that disturbances were occurring on the Border, it may be seen that
^P. 353. I "Pp. 349, 360.
«P. 363.
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the relations between the two countries were akeady considerably strained.
The two months and a half between 14th August and 24th October 1512 are dealt with in a separate account by the Treasurer, Andrew Stewart, the Bishop of Caithness. This account is not so carefully divided into headings as the others are : the items principally relate to pay- ments to mariners, gunners, and workmen in connection with the repairs of the Royal palaces : there is an interesting entry relating to the work- ing of the lead mines at Wanlockhead in Lanark- shire. ^
The last account in this volume is that of Treasurer Cuthbert Baillie, Commendator of Glenluce, whose statement begins on 24th October 1512, and comes down to 8th August 1513. Though the state of the country was becoming more and more perilous as time went on, we hardly find any reflection of this in the accounts of the Treasurer. On the 18th November and subsequent dates we find payments being made to " the Knycht of Spanze that beris the croce on his breste," * probably one of the many envoys that came to the Scottish Court at this time. The cross on his breast was probably the emblem of an Order : the Knights of the Orders of Alcantara, Calatrava, and St. Dominic all wore crosses of
>P. 376. I »P. 3©8.
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some sort in their breast. Another envoy is more distinctly mentioned in the person of Octavian Olearius, whom the Pope had sent to James in a vain endeavour to persuade him to desert his ancient ally of France. If Octavian only came to Scotland in November, it is singular to find him disembarking so far north as Aberdeen, ^ but as he remained in the country for several months this may only have been an excursion to that town in order to visit the good old Bishop Elphinstone, who was not destined long to survive his King. Octavian was at all events in Edin- burgh by Christmas time, as he got twenty French crowns from the King as a New- Year gift, and he stayed on in the country, hoping against hope that he might yet prevail upon James to fall in with the wishes of the Pope, till the beginning of August, when war between England and Scotland had actually broken out. Not till then have we news of his departure, when he received a present of £90.*
De la Motte, the French ambassador, who, as we have seen, left Scotland in July, returned in November with a ship laden with munitions of war and a quantity of wine. * In December his servants danced two Morris dances before the King, * and there is evidence' in the accounts that
'P. 3d9. I 'LeUe'B Hist, of Soot., p. 85.
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even at this inclement period of the year De la Motte himself accompanied the King on a pilgrimage to Whithorn. ^ The Frenchmen in Scotland at this time did not only include the members of the ambassador's suite, but others as well. Not to mention shipwrights and mariners who came to assist the King in the fitting-out of his fleet, we read of at least two goldsmiths of that nationality. Michael, goldsmith, Frenchman, got tlie sum of £35 8s. paid him for work done during the period of a former account, ^ and £9 were paid to another goldsmith called Jehan la Eossy, who returned to France in January. ^ Native talent in this Une was, however, by no means neglected, for we find £12 18s. paid to John Aitkin, a goldsmith in Stirling, for eight rings, which were bestowed as New- Year gifts on the ladies of the Queen's Chamber. * Little domestic matters like these bulk more largely in the accounts at this time than might have been expected. Nothing could be gathered from them that the times were so critical and that a blow was hanging over the kingdom which would shake it to its foundation. Life went on in the King's household very much as it always did. We read of a nurse being dismissed on the 12th of December, and a payment to another, an Irish woman, who tended the young
*P. 400. I »P. 403.
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Prince during some infantile illness. * The search for the Elixir of Life went on as before under the auspices of the notorious Abbot of Tongland : singers were feed, stray hawks were sought for, and the Eoyal wardrobes were replenished very much as they had been before. In February 1512-13 a payment of £220 was made to the captain of the French ambassador's ship which had brought the cargo of wine previously mentioned : we are left in doubt whether this large sum was given as a gratuity to the captain or whether it was meant to be in payment for the wine. It seems too large a sum for the former, and yet it was more likely that the envoy would have brought the wine as a present to secure the favour of James than as a mere article of merchandise. This was not, how- ever, the only import of French wines for the King's cellar that was made at this time, for in the November previous a ship had been despatched to Rochelle under the command of William Stirling, and we hear of her arrival with her freight of twenty-one tuns of wine in April : the cost of this quantity, calculating the tun at 252 gallons, would be a little over four shillings a gallon, or about 4d. a pint : in Queen Mary's time prices had risen a little, and Parliament fixed the price of Rochelle wine at 6d. a pint if imported by the western ports, and 2d. more if imported by any eastern port.
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In March there appears at the Scottish Court amid the throng of other ambassadors a messenger bearing letters from O'Donnel, Prince of Connal, probably with reference to a league which was to be entered into with the purpose of creating a diversion in Ireland which might occupy the attention of the English King. It is said, indeed, that O'Donnel himself came to Scotland in person and took the oath of homage to James, ^ and we catch a glimpse of his visit in the accounts ; his harper " quhilk past away with him *' got a gratuity of £7, and the Earl of Argyll received £50 6s. 8d. for O'Donnel's entertainment while he was in Scotland. * On the 28th of March Forman, the Bishop of Moray, was despatched with Unicom Herald to France to report the state of affairs, which he did with more ingenuity than honesty. The EngUsh ambassadors left in the beginning of April, having failed to come to any amicable understanding with the Scottish Court. In May De la Motte again flashes into Scotland, * bearing that turquoise ring which the French Queen Anne of Brittany sent to James, with a present of thirteen thousand French crowns, calling him " hir lufe,'* and praying him that " he wald recompence hir again with sum of his knyghtUe support in hir necessatie, that is to say, that he wald raise his airme and come three fute on
^TyUer'B ffiat. of Scotland, I »P. 415. iv., p. 61. I »P. 411.
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Inglis ground for hir sake/' * This appeal to the chivahy of James turned the balance, and from that moment the chance of peace was but slight, though on the 24th of May James made one more effort to ward off the hostilities which appeared almost inevitable. In June there was a gathering together of mariners to man the ships, and by the end of the month Henry had mvaded France and all hope of peace was gone. In July messengers are sent to various countries " for the congrega- tioun of our Soverane Lordis legis at Ellem," a rendezvous which was subsequently altered to the Boroughmuir of Edinburgh. We hear almost nothing of the despatch of the fleet under Arran, which made a very inglorious campaign owing to the incompetency of its conmiander. Towards the end of the month we hear of an importation of twelve cartsful of " harnes " from Denmark. On the 26th the Lyon was despatched to France bearing a message to Henry which rendered war inevitable.* On the 6th of August the Queen went to Linlithgow, and it is not improbable that James accompanied her, and that it was here that he had the mysterious interview in the Church with the blue-gowned and yellow-haired apparition of which Pitscottie tells us, who solenmly warned the King against his proposed expedition. Sir David Lindsay, afterwards Lyon, who told the
iPit«cottie, Scot. Text Soc., L, | •?. 417. p. 256.
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story himself to Buchanan, ^ and John Inglis, the Marshal, made an attempt to seize the figure, but he " wanischit away and could in no wayis be sen nor comprehendit, bot wanischit away as he had bene ane blink of the sone or ane quhife of the whirlewind, and could no more be seine." James was " a fey man," and sought refuge trom worry and anxiety by a last pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Duthus. * That is the last we hear in the accounts of the doings of the King before the great tragedy of Flodden unrolled itself, and this part of the Treasurer's books abruptly closes on the 7th of August with the commonplace entry of £15 for the payment of the blacksmith's account for shoeing the King's horses. What followed belongs to history and need not be entered on here. The great fleet so carefully prepared and so fully equipped vanishes we know not whither: the great army sets out for England with the King at its head never to return, and Scotland's cup of sorrow is filled to the brim.
The Navy.
As in the second volume of the Treasurer's Accounts the King's marriage was the pre- dominating feature, so in this the preparation of his fleet stands out as the principal object of
^Hiflt., xiu., p. 31. I •?. 419.
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expenditure. In the last volume we had details about the building of the Margaret and the Treasurer \ in this the entries chiefly deal with the construction of what was termed "the great ship" par excellence^ and subsequently known as The Great Michael At what exact time it was actually begun is not clear, but the building must have been well in progress in 1507. Pitscottie says it took " a year and a day," but this must only be taken as a general term denoting a long time. In that portion of the accounts which includes the period from 8th Septem- ber 1507 to 21st July 1508,^ Sir WiUiam Melville, the Master of Works for the ships, receives for the expenses of construction upwards of £3000. At the same time we read of timber being brought from Damaway in the ship Raven at a cost of £143; and Eobert Barton imported the same commodity from France at a cost of upwards of £500. Quantities of iron were also purchased from various persons, but largely from a Spanish merchant, amounting in all to the value of nearly £350. From Spain also seem to have come two anchors, which were bought for £93 15s., * and sundry other material was supplied, which brought the total of the account up to £7279, most of which was for shipbuilding, though in this account the work in the Palaces and other buildings is also included.
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In the general accounts of this period we get some interesting notices regarding Scottish shipping. In September 1507 a ship that came from Den- mark with the French Herald Montjoy, took the opportunity of laying in a cargo of coal as freight for her return voyage. ^ During the same month the Treasurer^ under command of John Barton, was put in commission to convey Alexander Stewart, the young Archbishop of St. Andrews, abroad for his studies — the Provost of the Collegiate Church of Crichton, Thomas Crichton, getting £188 to defray his expenses.* In October a barque which was built at Dumbarton was laden with a cargo of herring, which were probably salted for export.' The Margaret at this time appears to have been laid up at the Pool of Erth, where the King visited her in February 1507-8;* and a quantity of "harnes" — a term which seems to indicate equip- ment of various sorts and is not confined to mere defensive armour or trappings — was taken from her in March ;^ and the hundred spear-heads which were made by the smith at Cambuskenneth were probably designed as part of her outfit. The armourer was also at work preparing a lot of axes, halberts, steel bows, and other arms, which were put on board her in June.* On the 18th of June the Trea^surer was commissioned to France
»P. 72. »P. 72. •p. 78.
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with Gavin Dunbar, the Archdeacon of St. Andrews, together with certain Frenchmen, and thirty-six horses. This was an expensive freight; John Barton the captain got £113, and the cost of victualling the ship amounted to £204, while £88 was paid for "boat hires" for the horses, which may imply that they were carried by other ships than the Treasurer. That vessel does not appear to have actually sailed till nearly the end of the month, as we find her lying in Leith Boads on the 27th. ^ At the same time a French ship left with the servants of the Lord of Aubigny on board, but the cost of their provisioning was not nearly so great. Owing to the break in the accounts, we lose sight of the ships for some time. It is not till September 1511 that we meet with them again : we then find much activity reigning at the Pool of Erth. Three docks were in process of construction, together with stabling for fifty horses, probably used for the carriage of material and victuals to the ships. In June 1512 the ship Lark was docked there, and the barque Jamea^ which had been purchased for £65, had a new mast put in her the following month. * The whole expenses for the ships during this period ending in August 1512 amounted to the large simi of £14,327. Part of this sum represents the wages of the mariners, shipwrights, gunners, and other workmen employed about the ships, of which fidler details are given
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in the account book of the Master of Works which has been discovered, and which will be found in Appendix No. 1. The amount also includes a vast quantity of material supplied for the shipbuilding, and also the cost of conveying the French ambas- sadors to and from their country. Some special items are interesting as showing the energy dis- played in bringing the articles requisite from foreign countries. In 1511 the Pansy brought sixty-three copper^ pulleys with blocks for the same out of Denmark at a cost of £93. The carting for the year from September 1511. to August 1512 amounted to £135. From Denmark, too, came in April 1512, by the ship Clofars^ wood, pitch, and tar ; and a large importation of timber was made at the same time from Norway in a ship commanded by Thomas Bannatyne. In May we read of a " galay " being constructed at Glasgow, and in July another ship of the same sort was in process of building at Ay. ^ A ship also appears to have been bought in France and was sent home laden with planks. ' Whether this was the Trinity mentioned afterwards, which was bought in France at a cost of 525 francs,* is not clear : in the first entry the ship is said to have cost 883 francs, but this may include her freight
1 These are called copper in the Accounts, but were probably brass, as copper is too soft for the purpose [Fr. , cuivre jaunt].
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of planks as well as the vessel herself. " Masts " (meaning large trees) were brought from Lochness, Koss-shire, and Denmark. The rigging for the ships was largely bought in Flanders by James Simpson, a merchant there, who also purchased canvas and other materials on behalf of the King. Some other items of expenses on the ships will also be foxmd in the last set of accounts included in this volume, ^ including a payment to the Master of the Works of £940.
From the detailed accounts in the Appendix already alluded to we get some information about the names of the ships which constituted the Boyal Navy and the number of mariners in each. The principal of these was, of course. The Great Michael: in October 1512 her mariners' wages for the month amounted to the sum of £137 10s. ; but if we are to believe the description given of her by Pitscottie this cannot have repre- sented anything like her full complement of men. He tells us she had three hundred mariners to sail her, and as their wages averaged about 30s. a month the wage list of the ship when fully manned would have amounted to £450 a month. In addition to the " blue-jackets," we are told that she had six score of gunners and a thousand men of war, besides her captains, skippers, and quartermasters.* The
'Pp. 447-497.
^Pitscottie i., 251; his account of the ship is probably exaggerated in almost every detail, though it must, on the other hand, be kept
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Accounts provide for 40 mariners in the Margaret and 30 in the James. The " little bark called The GabineV was manned by Frenchmen, having ten men and a boy, and was commanded by one Perynot. This was the ship that carried De la Motte, the French ambassador, in his journeys to and from Scotland. It is not clear whether she actually belonged to the Scottish King, but at all events her mariners were paid by him. There was a "little English prize," sometimes called " the each," with a captain, four men, and a boy : the great boat manned by a skipper, two men, and a boy: the little boat with a similar complement of men; the Spanish Ship, the history of which is uncertain : the little barque of Bal- yardis ' : the bark of Ahbeyjield ^ : Chalmer's barque, under the command of Peter Foularton, which had sixty men on board, though these were mostly fighting men and not sailors. We also read, in connection with their victualling, of the barque Mytoune, Captain James Douglas, with 130 men ; the Mary, Captain George Lyle; and the Crone, under the command of Thomas Ober. Other ships are mentioned in connection with voyages or shipments of material, but which may not have been used for fighting : such as an English ship sent to Norway, probably for timber, which re- joiced in the name of the Merrybuttocks ; and the Swallow, which was laden with iron. In addition
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to these, many ships are referred to under their skipper's name, such as John Barton's barque, and Brounhill's ship, which may possibly refer to vessels already mentioned under their own name. If, as we are told, James's Navy at its best consisted of sixteen large ships and ten small ones, * it is clear that we have not the names of all of them in these Accounts: Dacre, in writing to Henry VI 11. in February 1513, mentions that there are at Leith thirteen great ships of three tops, ten small ships, and the ^^Ship of Lynn^'' and at Newhaven two great ships, the Margaret and the James. John Carslow, Governor of Norham Castle, in a letter to the Bishop of Durham in September 1512, gives the number of ships with tops at sixteen. * But West, the English ambass- ador, in writing to Henry on 13th April 1513, says that he saw at Leith only nine or ten small top- men, and none of these fully equipped for war except one little topman of about sixty tons : at Newhaven the Margaret was being fitted out with a maintop, and being caulked and tallowed. A galley about fifty feet long was upon the stocks, in which it was said the King was to journey to and from Stirling. * But Leith and Newhaven did not exhaust the places at which ships were built or laid up : we have seen that ship-building was
*Hame Brown's Hist, of Scot., i., 344.
'Gregory Smith's Days of James IV., 136. ^Ellis's Original Letters, i., 67.
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carried on at Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Ayr in the West, and in the East men-of-war. rode at anchor at the Queensferry, or were laid up and fitted out, if not actually built, still further up the the river Forth at what is variously called in the Accounts the Pool or Pow of Erth, or more shortly the Polertht. It is necessary to consider briefly the places where the ships were constructed.
The Royal Dockyards. — We so often read in the Accounts of the Pool of Erth that it may not be out of place to discuss the locality of a place from which almost all tradition of shipping has passed completely away. Airth is a parish of small extent in the east of Stirlingshire, the village of the name lying eight miles south-east of Stirling ; it has a coast-line of six miles along the right bank of the river Forth, which is here about nine furlongs in width. The Pow — a conunon name in Scotland for any small water, from the Celtic Poll and the Cymric Pwl signifying a pool, ditch, or stagnating stream — is an insignificant rivulet which rises near Bannockbum and falls into the Forth opposite the present town of Kincardine. While of no accoimt to-day, it is possible that its outlet at all events was of more considerable dimensions in the early part of the 1 6th century. It is indeed certain that at that time the tidal influence of the Forth was felt much farther inland than it now is, much fertile land having been reclaimed from the water since then. About a hundred years ago an anchor
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was dug up in the lands of Dunmore (formerly Airthbeg), and going back to still earlier times, we are told that " Erthe or Airth was a stronghold in Wallace's day surrounded by ' draw dykes,' the tide probably washing the rock on which the Castle stands, although it is now nearly a mile from the Forth."* The lands of the "Powis of Airth" and the Barony of the same name are frequently mentioned in Eoyal Charters, and on 18th Jauuary 1580-1 a grant was made to Alexander Bruce of Airth of a certain bovate of land in Pownaif, with the salmon fishings in the rivers Forth and the Pow of Airth " near that piece of land there called the Dokkis''^ In a later charter of 24th December 1597 the Docks are again mentioned with an alias of " The Cruikis," referring in all probability to the windings of the river. That there was salmon fishing with the net ex adverse of the Dokkis in the Pow of Airth shows that the tide must have come up to and beyond this point. In another charter of 14 th February 1607 there is mention made of "the lands between the head of the mill-lade called Patrick Hagings' damhead and the Pow, as it comes to the site of the old mill of the said Patrick, called Milnholm." This damhead may be the place marked Higginsneuk in the maps, and
> Family Records of the Bnioes and the Comyns by Mrs. E. Cum- mmg-Braoe, p. 313.
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probably the Docks lay in a line between it and the old mill. There is also allusion in the last quoted charter to the port, "the Pow, herbrie, and hevin" of Airth, which shows that even at that period there was still accommodation of a sort for ships at the mouth of the Pow of Airth. ^ A personal visit to Airth revealed the fact that traces of the old docks are still in existence, and that fishing boats were built in them within the last hundred years. Owing to the extensive reclamation of land from the Forth, however, the place where these docks were is now at a consider- able distance from the river, and a very shallow ditch is all that remains of the Pow at this place — ^the mouth of the present stream of that name entering the Forth about half-a-mile farther east. The Polerth docks being within easy reach of Stirling, it was natural that their oversight should be entrusted to some one at that place; and accordingly we find that the Constable of Stirling Castle was placed in charge of the ships there. In September 1511 he got payment of £60 as a final instalment of £240 for the construction of three docks and the erection of stabling for fifty horses. These docks must have been dug out of the alluvial soil at the river side: cross timbers and blocks must then have been laid on the ground on to which the ship which was to be repaired
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was floated at high water. The entry must then have been closed with puddle: there are several entries relating to "clay barges,"^ which were probably used for carrying the clay to the docks, and the "hadder" or heather mentioned in connec- tion with them may have been for the purpose of rendering the clay stiffer and easier to work. The dock having been sealed up with the clay it was kept dry by the use of "scowpis" for bailing out the water.* Of course, when the ship was again ready for sea the only way to get her out was by "castin" the dock again — that is, by digging away the dam of clay and giving the water admittance. This class of dock is used in China to this day for the building and repairing of junks: there they drive in piles to close the entrance, and put puddle inside to make it watertight.
In 1512 Callander is paid sums amounting to upwards of £145 for providing meat, drink, coals, candles, and carriage for the workmen in the docks, ^ and in the Exchequer Rolls there occurs a payment to him of £40 in July 1512 for his expenses incurred at the Pow of Erth "circa custodium navium domini regis ibidem existentium," and a similar payment the next year.* In 1512, too, the Treasurer's accounts contain an entry for the pay- ment to him of a sum of £37 for work in the ship
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James "when she lay in the Powis of Arth/' In March 1512-13 Eobert Callander and his wife got a lease of nine bovates of land in the Halls of Airth which had been previously let to Alexander Elphinston with consent of the latter.* We also leam that he received £10 in part payment of £20 for the construction of a dock to the great ship, but if he contracted for this work to be done at Airth it must only have been for the fitting out of the Great Michael, as we know that she was built at Newhaven.
Newhaven. — It was, in fact, at Newhaven that the great bulk of the shipbuilding was carried on. Its proximity to Edinburgh and the consequent convenience of being able to get stores from the town and artillery from the Castle put easily on board made it a most suitable place for a Eoyal Dockyard, The depth of water also at the shore formed an important consideration in its selection. There does not seem to have been a harbour or even a village of any sort near the place until it was fixed upon as the site of his shipbuilding docks by James. We have already seen' that so far back as 1504 the construction of the Haven was being proceeded with, and that the building of a Chapel dedicated to the Virgin and
^P. 444. I Airth in tlie ckee vicimty of the
*Th&g9 is still m fuiily of tlie | old docks, nune of Oskndsr reaidttit at , 'Vol. ii, Ft^Mse, Izxxiv.
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St. James was going on in 1505 * ; this Chapel was completed by the beginning of 1507.* In 1510 the City of Edinburgh, fearing, we are told, ^ that this new port might prove prejudicial to their own at Leith, got a grant of it from the King: the charter, which is dated at StirUng of March 1510- 11, describes it as "the new Haven lately con- structed by the King on the sea shore between the Chapel of St. Nicholas in the north part of the town of Leith and the lands of Wardie." The possession of it by the town of Edinburgh did not, however, interfere with its use as a place for the construction of the King's vessels : and the docks excavated for this purpose must have been of considerable extent, as the Great Michael was built there, and its size must have required a dock of very considerable dimensions.
The Great Michael. — ^Much has been written about this great effort of James's naval constructor, who was probably that Frenchman Jacques Terrel about whom we read so much in the accounts. The most detailed description we get of her is from Pitscottie, who tells us that she " tuck so mekill timber that scho wastet all the wodes in Pyfe except Falkland wode ; by all the tymmer that was gotten out of Norway." * We learn from the accounts that this is rather understated than
^VoL iii., S7. | 'Biaitiaod's Hist, of Edinbuigh,
»/Wri, 288. 500.
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otherwise, for timber was requisitioned from all parts of Scotland, besides being largely imported from Prance and other parts of the Continent. If it is the fact that her sides were made of oak ten feet thick it is evidently impossible that Fife, or indeed any other part of Scotland, could have supplied so much of that slow-growing wood, which did not flourish very abundantly in the Scottish Kingdom. It is probable, however, that the old annaUst is more graphic than correct in his description of the ship. If her sides were ten feet thick they would have materially interfered with the proper working of her artillery : but there can be little doubt that they were very thick. Nineteen " dakir " of hides were provided " to keip her fra fireing"^; this implies that the muzzles of the guns did not project beyond the outer Une of the port-holes, and that therefore there was a risk of the woodwork being singed when they were discharged : to obviate this the sides of the port- holes were lined with leather. No doubt the cannon were not very long, but even allowing for this, the walls must have been of considerable thick- ness. If we are to take the wage Usts given in Appendix I. as representing her full complement of men she cannot have been anything like so huge as Pitscottie would have us believe. She is said to have been, according to him, 240 feet long by 35 in breadth, and according to the chronicler whom we are following bore six guns on each side
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and three "basilisks" or large cannon, two at her stern and one in her bows: she had 300 pieces of smaller artillery, including, apparently, cross-bows and long-bows. We get a great deal of detail as to her outfit in the accounts.^ Much material was brought from the Continent : copper, or rather brass pulleys, besides wood, were imported from Denmark ; big guns were got from Flanders ; some of the rigging came from France, and some from the Low Countries. It is curious to note that both copper and Cornwall tin were brought to Scotland by way of Antwerp : both of these must have been for use in the gun foundry in Edinburgh Castle, and it is worthy of notice that the tin, weighing 608 lbs., was sent in two pieces ; now-a-days it would be in ten or twelve. No less than £49 were paid on "crangilt" or crane dues,---the price paid for the hire of a crane to load this heavy freight at Antwerp.^ In May 1512 we find more copper being imported. James Sympson conducts the purchase, lays the copper in the "sellar" — i.e., puts it in store — to await the ships, pays the hire of the store (" sellar maiU ") and the wages of the workmen for putting it in, defrays the customs duty and the cost of putting the material on board. ^ The whole items of this shipment, together with the " gunstanis " and tar which formed part of it, are stated with
>Pp. 289-307. I »P. 302.
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all the charges in it as clearly as any shipbroker could do to-day.
Attention may also be directed to an interesting journey made at this time (May 1512) by George Paterson to Middleburg to procure compasses for the ships.
It is impossible to go into all the details regarding the stores and tackle which were furnished for the Great Michael and the other ships, but one or two other interesting items may be briefly mentioned. When the Cloffas went to Denmark for tar she was ballasted with salt from Dysart, which probably had a ready sale at her port of destination. The great ship, whatever her actual size may have been, must have made an imposing show with all her flags flying. They must have been very large and fine flags: there is a detailed account of the material used in them on p. 477. As it took twenty-two ells of cloth to make the St. Andrew's Cross alone on one of them, it must have been of an immense size. On the Margaret, on the other hand, we find the same Cross took 2f ells only.^ The main standard of the great ship (that probably with the Eoyal Arms on it) consumed 33 ells of lining, and all the flags seem to have been decorated with fringes round their edges. The total cost of the standards for the Great Michael amounted to upwards of £72. Some of the standards were certainly painted, as Andrew
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Chalmers, the painter, was employed in connection with them; and we have accounts for gold colours, oil, and varnish for them.^
It is not very clear when the Great Michael was actually launched, but if we are to understand the expression "the out-putting of the King's great ship" as referring to that incident, it must have occurred on the 1 2th October 1511, three Scottish trumpeters getting a gratuity of 14s. on the occasion ^ : on the 24th of the same month the taubronar of the Incorporation of Bakers received 3s. for playing at the "drawing" of the great ship; and on the 7th of February following we have an entry of 14s. to the workmen of the Newhaven "for drawan furtht of ane tree fra the cradill of the gret schip," which seems to indicate that even then she was not out of the hands of her builders. She got certain "treis" from Culross on the 13th of that month, and on the same day an accident happened to one of the workmen on board which shows that there was still work proceeding on her. On the 18th, 28s. were given to the men that rowed out the great ship, probably meaning that she was towed out to mid-stream. The King at this time pSiid her frequent visits, and on the 21st February supped on board. Shortly thereafter she sailed up to Queensferry, the King being rowed from her to Blackness on the 20th March, and fish and other provisions were taken on board her at
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the former place on the 22nd.^ She may indeed have gone further up the Firth, as a pilot was despatched " to seik the depis and passage to the Polertht" — that is, to explore the channel and see if there were depth enough for the passage of so great a vessel. If she did not get quite up to Polerth she must have got near it, as on the 2nd of June there is a payment for the hire of a boat which carried the King to the great ship from Bo'ness and down again, clearly implying that he went up the Firth to visit her. He goes " doun " again from the ship to Queensferry on the 30th of June, and a boat goes to her on the 24th of July from the water of Carron, near the present town of Grangemouth. On the 3rd of August the Queen had supper on board her.
Subsequent to the launching of the great ship a good deal of work was done for her, the detail of which wiU be found in Appendix No. I. Apart from her supply of stores and provisions, we find that so late as March 1513 she was put into dock to have her bottom cleaned. It was probably in the first place blazed with heather to dry it, then the tar was put on with " moppatis," and then a coat of tallow was applied — four barrels were used for the Great Michael at this time — ^to prevent the adherence of barnacles or the attacks of worm, and perhaps with the idea that it made it sail more easily through the water. It is interesting
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to note that at this period when the great ship was getting its overhaul there was much activity and bustle in the dockyards. Men were working night and day, or at all events were doing a great deal of " overtime," as may be gathered from the fact that 7d. was spent for " candeU in the nycht to them that wrocht." ^ It will be observed that before the ship could get into the dock " stanys " or ballast had to be taken out of her " forschip " in order to trim her to an even keel.
One of the last notices we get of the Great Michael is in July 1613, when she lay with all her guns and equipment complete, but still taking in provisions, "behind the Inche," — that is, in the lee of Inchkeith.* The entries relating to her close with the fact that on " the day sche salit " she took on board a quantity of fresh meat. '• Of her subsequent history little need be said, and indeed not much is known. It is matter of history that the fleet was sent out under Arran, a most incompetent naval commander. After a foolish attack on the town of Carrickfergus he was super- seded by a real sailor. Sir Andrew Wood. But Wood, as Mr. Lang says, came too late, " and the fleet vanishes into fairyland." T^e Great Michael was, along with the Margaret and James^ sent to France, and was purchased by Louis XTT. on 2nd
»P. 474. .| «P. 490.
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April 1614 for 40,000 livres, ^ and Buchanan asserts that she ultimately rotted in the harbour of Brest.
The Mariners^ etc. — It is somewhat difficult to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion as to the number of seamen employed on board the fleet. We have, no doubt, many items showing the amount of wages paid in the different months, but these may apply to what may be called the permanent staff. Before the vessels were actually fitted out on a war-footing many more men must have been employed, and we find that so late as June 1613 messengers were sent to Fife, Galloway, Stirling- shire, Clydesdale, East Lothian, and the West and North of Scotland for the purpose of engaging sea- men for the ships.* From {September 1611 to July 1512 the weekly wages paid amounted to sums varying from £126 to £175. The monthly wages for September 1511 came to £173, and other entries for the same length of time range from £176 to £255.' When we look at the wage-lists them- selves, we find upwards of 300 names entered as mariners of the great ship, but it does not necess- arily follow that these were all on board her at one time, for the same names are in many cases found as belonging to the James or Margaret. The probability is that the men were sliifted about
*Epi8t. Reguin Scot., i., 214. Gregory Smith's Days of James IV., 118.
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from ship to ship as was found convenient, and that the full complement was ultimately made up from the men who, as above mentioned, were sununoned from all parts of Scotland. The majority of the seamen appear to have been Scotsmen, as might have been expected, and we meet with many familiar names, as Anderson, Bisset, Campbell, Forbes, Gardener, Irvine, Kennedy, Lang, Law, Maitland, Nicholson, Robert- son, Sinclair, Thomson, and the like. Some names are not so well known : Hadder may be mtended for Adair, and John Ringan probably owed his name to St. Ninian: but Twizocht, Utiler, and Woguhelm are not represented by any modem family. There were several foreigners; Pernot Bawbyn or Babyn, who came to Scotland in June 1513, was a Frenchman; there were several Spaniards, and the gunners, such as Henrich " cutlug " were probably Dutch. But the whole names in the wage-lists given at the end of Appendix No. I. present an interesting study to the student of Scottish personal names. Li the lists of the crews it will be observed that neither the spiritual nor physical comfort of the men were unattended to. On board the great ship there were at least two priests, besides the " Prior of St. Andrews," and there i^ mention in the Margaret of " the Barber," who corresponded to the ship's surgeon of more modern times. Music was provided by the inevitable "taubroner,"
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while we may probably understand the " Maister Compter " to represent the purser.
Provisions. — ^The ships appear to have been fairly well catered for in the way of rations. As a specimen, we may take Sunday, the 1 7th day of July, when the Great Michael was lying in Leith Eoads with 200 men aboard. On that day she got two fresh marts or oxen, and 600 loaves of fresh bread which were provided by a Dunferm- line baker ; on Monday she got a mart and a half, and the following day two marts ; on Wednesday, which may have been a fast day, 400 fish were sent on board at 40d. a hundred ; on Thursday, two marts were supplied; and on Friday, which would be the usual fast day, 400 fish ; on Saturday there was a similar supply of fish, and on Sunday, when she sailed out to he in the lee of Inchkeith, no less than eight marts were put on board, besides six sheep. For liquor to the crew during the week above mentioned there was laid in one last of fresh ale. A last was twelve barrels, each barrel containing twelve gallons. The price of the ale was 20d. per gallon, and the casks in which it was put (or " treis " as they are termed in the accounts) were chiefly new salmon barrels and cost about 26s. a dozen.
Of course, when the Great Michael was fully commissioned and ready for sea the quantity of provisions taken on board was much larger, but as we are not told how long they were supposed
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to last, it is not possible to calculate how many men she had on board. Not only was the quantity of food greater, but there was considerable variety. Of ale there was no lack, 289 barrels being taken on board: in addition to this, there were 174 barrels of beer : this proves the inaccuracy of the popular notion that beer was not introduced into this country till the Reformation ; as a matter of fact, beer was known in the 15th century if not earlier.^ It was originally imported from Ger- many, and " beir of Hamburgh " is mentioned in the Exchequer Eolls in 1461 ; * any made in this country was probably brewed by foreigners. In addition to this ale and beer the Great Michael stowed away 29 tuns of wine. K we calculate the tun at 252 gallons this would make 7,250 gallons, which would be an ample supply for a very considerable time. The wine was brought from France, and we have previously seen that a ship was sent to Eochelle for the purpose of its importation, and a large amount was brought by De la Motte, the French Ambassador, probably as a present for the King. For eatables there was put on board a large quantity of biscuits packed in barrels and covered with canvas. Those biscuits were made of half wheat and half rye, and the same ingredients went to the making of a comest- ible called " sour breid," though this is generally
»8ee " On Soots Urink," by W. Cramond, LL.D., p. 6. ; Trea- surer's Accounts, i. p. ccxii.
•Exch. Rollfl, vii., 60.
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supposed to have been made of oatmeal.^ The crew, however, did not altogether depend on biscuits or "sour breid," for there is no doubt baking was done on board, 14s. being provided to the bakers of the ship for clay to make an oven. Some finer victual was also supplied, but not to any great extent, as we read oi only three barrels of flour being got, and even this appears to have been an afterthought, as it was " brocht in haist." Six and a half chalders of oatmeal completed the provisioning in the way of breadstufls. With regard to meat, 200 salt marts and 40 fresh were provided, and four butchers took two days to slay and salt them. Forty " reistit swine," or, as we should say, salt pork, gave a variety to the menu. For fish there were 1,000 "corf keling" or dried cod, "gevin be my lK)rd Secretar;" 5,300 stock fish "resavit fra the Franchman," besides thirteen barrels salmon, and five lasts of herring. Six hundred eggs were purveyed, 916 "cabbokes" or cheeses, making in all 200 stone of cheese. Forty- two stone of butter in barrels were put on board, and a barrel of honey. There is a curious item of one barrel "pellok," which was probably salted porpoise and esteemed a dainty. It is difficult to know what use was made of half a pound of saffiron which cost the large sum of 22s. 6d. ; while four pounds of pepper does not seem as if condiments were greatly in demand. For all this victual there
^Cf. Jamieson's Diet. «.t;. Sour.
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were provided sixteen pipes and twenty-four puncheons of fresh water, which we may presume was used more for cooking than drinking.
Such was the provision for the creature comforts of the great ship and her crew: the smaller vessels were similarly furnished in proportion to their size, and from all that we learn from these lists it is tolerably certain that a seaman on board one of His Majesty's ships in the year 1513 was fairly well catered for.
There are many details relating to the equip- ment of the ships in other respects, but for these reference must be made to the Appendix.
Artillbry.^
Along with the interest which he displayed in the construction of an efficient Navy, James devoted much attention to the production of pieces of heavy ordnance. We have already seen that he himself practised shooting with a hand culverin on several occasions. One was brought home to him by John Barton in 1507,* and we read of the King getting horns for gunpowder,^ one of these being made of silver and gilt.* Besides this, however, there must have been pieces of greater calibre, as we read of great guns being shot in the Abbey close, when 28s. were given to the gunners. These gunners were chiefly foreigners. One at
^ For an aocoaut of the early ^ P. 97. Scottish Artillery see Treasurer's )>Pp. 102, 103. Accounts, i. pp. ccxyi.-cozxiii. **?. 107.
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least was French ; " the French gunner" gets parti- coloured taffety,^ and payments to him are else- where mentioned.^ His wages were £3 10s. per month, which was not quite so much as the Flemish gunners got, but more than the Scotsmen in the same service.' As his name is never men- tioned, it is not certain whether the person who is styled " the French gunner " is identical with " the Franchman that suld mak the gunnis," to whom a payment of 66s. was made in May 1608. The majority of the foreign gunners were, however, to judge from their names, natives of the Low Countries. Hans, Henryk "Cutlug," Wolf, and perhaps others, came from those districts, and trained a staff of Scottish artillerymen, such as Seton, Nicolson, Baillie, Ormiston, &c.,* under them. Cannon, though in use for nearly two hundred years previous to the period with which we are now dealing, had only just begun to be cast in iron, but it is doubtful whether any of the guns mentioned in these accounts were made of that metal unalloyed. It was on the 10th March 1607-8 that Alexander Bow, a potter in Edin- burgh, got £5 to buy metal to cast the first gun. It is not clear whether this is intended to refer to a mere hand culverin, with the use of which the King was quite infatuated about this time, or to a piece of heavy ordnance. Certainly big guns were before long proceeded with.
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Before dealing with the home product, however, it may be noted that guns of considerable calibre were already in use, as we read of the King himself shooting the guns at Newhaven under the direction of "George the Almane gunner."^ These guns may have been imported, as others certainly were later,* from Flanders.
In 1508, as above stated, the manufacture of guns appears to have been started at two places, Edinburgh and Stirling. On 10th March 1507-8, Alexander Bow, a potter in Edinburgh, got £5 to buy metal " to cast the first gun with," and between that date and the 28th of the following month he got no less than £65 additional. On the 5th of April a man that made " the form for the gun in the Abbey " got 14s. in drinksilver, and there are frequent entries relating to the manufacture of gunpowder, though this was probably for the King's own culverin, in the practice of which he was at this time much engaged. But we do not have many details of the making of guns in Edinburgh at this period, though later, as we shall see, there was a regular gun foundry in the Castle. It was in Stirling that their manufacture was chiefly carried on. On the 11th of April 1508 a stone of tallow was purchased " to lay on the muld of the gun," ^ and a few days after a gun was carried from Stirling Castle to the
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potters, probably in order to enable the workmen to fashion a correct mould. On the 28th April we read of wire to bind the mould, and on the same date '^ the man that makes the gun in Stirling " was given I4s., and large quantities of metal were purchased for the making, amounting to a total value of £11 6s. 8d. As the metal was bought at different rates it is probable that there were different kinds of metal, which points to the guns being made of some kind of bronze alloy. Two guns were made at this casting, and 3 Is. was paid for iron bands to bind them with. In May there were purchases of wax, rosin, wire, copper, iron, and tallow for the guns, while a man was sent to Dunblane to get a stone of " flokkis " or cloth with the nap raised for smoothing the moulds. All did not go well sometimes in the native effort to cast guns, as 42s. was at one time paid to the potter of Stirling for the mould of a gun " that made na stede," from which we may presume that the mould had been faulty, and that the casting was a failure. ^ Foreign aid had to be called in, and on the 20th June "George the Almane gunner " goes to Stirling with two horses for himself and his gear "to the werk for the guns casting." " On the 9th of July Alan CJochran, the armourer, was sent from Stirling to Edinburgh to purchase tin for the guns casting : it arrived three days afterwards, so that Alan had lost no *p. lie. I «p. 127.
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time on his errand. The work was proceeded with without delay, 14s. being given to the man that made the furnace to melt the metal in, and a similar sum to the Cambuskenneth smith who assisted in the manufacture.
We hear nothing more of the Stirling guns, and owing to the gap in the accounts it is some years before we can again take up the tale of the fonnation of James's Scottish artillery. Before coming to that, however, it is interesting to see how the Bang devoted himself to shooting with the culverin, with all a child's enthusiasm for a new toy. Not only was he, as we have seen, fre- quently engaged in shooting matches, but he had several guns made for him, and those evidently of very fine quality, at least so far as outward adornment went. The first culverin arrived almost certainly from abroad, as it was brought by a man of John Barton in January 1507-8 — ^its price was high, £14 being paid on 1st of February to Barton for " ane gun to the King."* His Majesty was not long in experimenting with his new acquisition, for on the 4th February he is shooting with it in the hall of Holyrood house, H^ns the gunner being present to instruct him in the due conduct of the gun. Next day he is able to go outside, and evidently has a match in the garden of Sir George Newton, who was possibly a canon attached to the Abbey of Holyrood — at
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all events, we meet with a Sir George Newton who was rector of Bedrule in 1504,^ and he may have got preferment at a later date, if indeed he did not always have his residence in Edinburgh, as the charter in which his name occurs as a witness is dated from that city. In this his first shooting match with the culverin the Eing lost no less than £4 18s., as was no doubt to be expected, owing to his want of proficiency in the weapon : the next time he indulged in the recreation at the same place, only a few days after, his losses came down to 28s., but they rise again to £3 10s. in his next match, which was with William Douglas, perhaps that Sir WiUiam who married the heiress of Glen- bervie, and whose descendants ultimately succeeded to the Earldom of Angus. On 15th February the King aspired to greater feats in the way of fire- arms, and three of his artillerymen — Hans, Herwort, and Pierson — superintended afiairs while their Eoyal master shot the great guns in the Abbey Close; whether they were loaded with ball and at what range they were fired we are not informed. About this time we have several notices of gunpowder being made, and Herwort makes "peUokis" for the King's culverin. The word is usually employed to denote cannon balls of about 20 lbs. weight, but in this instance they must mean much smaller ammunition. On 28th
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February 28s. is given for " ane blawing horn to be ane powder horn," a large sum for a very common affair, and in the evening no doubt it was used to load the culverin with which James shot a match against his absurd clerical friend the Abbot of Tongland, when he, as usual, lost. There are notices of several other matches on which we need not dwell, but the King was evidently very proud of his culverin for which he had paid so much. On the 9th of March Selkyrk the cutler gets 28s. for gilding it, and the owner is waxing keen in the new pastime, as on the 13th a great black bag and a great belt are furnished in order to carry the King's gunpowder; on the 18th a silver gilt powder horn is purchased costing in all £2 9s. 2d., a large expenditure, seeing that neither the ordi- nary " blawing horn " nor the great black bag can have been worn out, if indeed they had been worn at all. The next time the King shot the big guns was at Newhaven in the beginning of April 1508, where he would have better scope for practice than in the Abbey Close. This did not detract from his devotion to his culverin, however, and he appears to have tried one of native manufacture, as on the 27th April Sir James Pettigrew was paid £10 for making a culverin to the King ; this was rather cheaper than the foreign one he had pre- viously purchased. We get an instructive glimpse of the conditions under which the King's shooting matches were conducted by an entry on 28th
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April for six ells of canvas " quhilk the King schot gunnis at," that is to say, the firing evidently took place at canvas targets. But after a very few months' practice James felt that he could do some- thing better than merely shoot at a mark for a wager, and accordingly we find him out with his keeper at Falkland early in May "to stalk ane deir with the culveryn." It is tantalising that we are not informed of the result of this stalk ; nor are we in any better position as regards another occasion when James made one of a merry party embarked in rowing boats off the Isle of May " to schuit at fowlis with the culveryn." This expedi- tion did not take place till the end of June, when the stormy waters of the Forth were probably on their best behaviour for the sporting occupants of the " row botes." * Although we have no account of the total bag on either of these occasions, the King does not appear to have been dissatisfied with the performance of his gun, as in the beginning of July he ordered two new culverins. ^ These made at least five which had been got since the beginning of February. The first had cost £14, the second £10, the third, which was got on the 4th of June, and which occurs in a list of arms got for the tournament, only cost £4, but perhaps it was that "lang culveryn" on which 42s. more was expended in varnishing it and gilding the end — the butt end presumably, and the " twich plaith,"
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which is said to have been half a foot long.^ This gun must have been fired from a portable stand, as is seen in many old pictures of military subjects. Within a month two more culverins were pur- chased ^ at a little higher price than the last, the pair costing £9 16s. All these guns meant a cor- responding supply of gunpowder ; there are many notices of its manufacture, and later on a regular powder mill was set up in Edinburgh. Mean- while the manufacture does not seem to have been on a large scale, and the powder for the culverins seems to have cost something to make, as Hans charged 22s, 6d. for 4\ Ibs.^ There is a curious entry on the 4th July 1508, when Currour the goldsmith seems to have supplied a gun to the King ; perhaps this was the silver gun of which we read on the 28th of July, when a " mesure " for r^ulating the charge of powder was supplied to it.* Whether the King lost conceit of culverin shooting as time went on we do not know, but in the later series of accounts there is little or no mention of it. The King certainly continued to shoot, but it was with the more primitive weapons of bows and arrows. Firearms were destined for more serious purposes than mere amusement.
It was in 1511 that gun-making on a large scale was commenced in the Castle of Edinburgh. Native talent was found not to be sufficient, and
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artificers had to be imported. We read of Gervase, gunner, and John Garnere, Steven Davenneis and Jacat, "melters," besides other assistants, including a wright and a smith.^ Jacat, we know, came from Tours, and all of them were brought from France, as they got payment for extra expenses incurred by them while waiting for a ship and a fair wind at the port of Dieppe. Jacob and Hans, the Flemings, were already in Scotland. Large quantities of iron and other metal were purchased in France and Flanders, and delivered at the Castle. The result was the casting of " ane gret cannoun callit the Necar," in the making of which 1,819 lbs. of brass were used.^ One hundred and forty-four " gun stanis " were imported,* and later on a powder mill arrived at Dundee, and was carried from there to Edinburgh.* Six " bemys culveringis " were brought from Campvere to Leith^ and 3,018 " pellokis " or cannon balls weighing about 20 lbs. apiece were purchased for upwards of £63.'^ There were other purchases of a similar kind ; 4,023 "gun stanis" of iron of the largest size, each weighing 33^ lbs., were got, and 263 smaller ones of 15 lbs. A little later, in June 1512, there was a further importation of 436 iron balls, each weighing 36 lbs., and 203 " pellokis " for the
ip. 276. 2 p. 278. 'P. 288.
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large culverins of 16 Ibs.^ There was, indeed, no stint of expenditure on ammunition and metal for guns. The next month William BrounhiU brings home 316 stones of gun metal, 2^ tons of copper, and 9 tons of cannon balls.*
Meanwhile the casting of guns went on apace in Edinburgh Castle under the superintendence of Eobert Borthwick, " master meltar." On the last day of January 1511-12 the King paid a visit to the foundry, and gave £4 4s. in " propines " to the Dutch smiths, Scots smiths, masons, wrights, gimners, powder men^ and other workmen in the Castle.' In June 1512 another visit was paid, Gervase " and his marrowis gunnares " getting 28s. in drinksilver, while we learn that they had some assistance in the form of unskilled labour, 14s. being given at the same time to " pure bodeis that helpit to melt." On the 20th June some Leith carters were sent with ten carts to the Castle of Threave to bring back two great guns ; it is evident that all the available artillery was to be concentrated in Edinburgh in case of its being wanted for an expedition into England. There is not much further reference to the guns in the main text of the accounts. In November 1512 we find Thomas Kincaid, the Constable of Edinburgh Castle, getting £30 for the purchase of copper, and we meet with a Wolf Umebrig who gets a
1 p. 303. I 3 p. 329.
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monthly wage of £4 4s. for manufacturing gunpowder.^
But when we turn to the Appendices containing the more detailed Accounts of the Master of the Works, which were afterwards summarised in the Accounts of the Treasurer, we find many most interesting items relating to the artillery. By August 1512 some of the guns with which the artificers in the Castle had been so busy were ready, so we find three great guns being taken from the Castle to Leith, ready to be put on board the Great Michael^ or some of the other ships which were there waiting for their equipment. It may be noted that each gun required six carts to bear it.* In December, 26s. were spent on iron to make handspikes or " gavelokis " for them. On the 19th of the same month two more guns were shipped "in haste. "^ Meanwhile the cannon foundry in the Castle was doing good work. In March 1513 there were ten men working under Borthwick at the melting of the metal besides four smiths, two men being under a Scottish smith and one under a Flemish. Long poles of fir wood were purchased to stir the molten metal with, and the furnaces were, of course, kept going night and day.* It is not necessary to allude in detail to the various purchases of different kinds of metal for the guns and other necessary appliances. These
' P. 440. I 5 P. 460.
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will all be found set forth very carefully in the accounts. One iron gun at least was taken in hand by the Scottish smith.^ The others were as usual cast in bronze. While the " meltars " worked at the guns, Wolf was no less busy in his depart- ment of the powder mill, and an array of carpenters' were engaged in making the ammunition waggons which were to accompany the guns when they were ready to set out. Barcar, the smith, put iron tyres on twenty pairs of great wheels for them, and was also responsible for the making of spades, shovels, handspikes, and such like articles to accompany the guns on their journey, not so much probably for entrenching purposes as to enable the roads over which they were to be taken to be made passable for such heavy and cumbrous machines. Harness of all kinds, both for oxen and horses, was prepared, and tallow and grease to facilitate the free working of the axles were not forgotten. It was, indeed, a very fully equipped park of artillery that proceeded to set out on Wednesday the 17th of August 1513 on their fateful expedi- tion.
Pitscottie tells us that the number of men to be marched to Modden under command of the King amounted to 100,000j and that the artillery consisted of thirty large guns and as many field pieces. We may safely put down all these numbers as much exaggerated. In the accounts now before
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us there is only a record of seventeen guns in all — five big cannon, two " gros culverins," four " culverins pikmoyane," and six " culverins moyane." They were all under the direction of Robert Borthwick, who had so much to do with their manufacture. The old historian above men- tioned tells us that Borthwick had cast seven cannon in Edinburgh Castle, and that they were called the seven sisters, presumably from their being all alike in shape and size ; but the accounts, unfortunately, are against this picturesque toucL Borthwick did no doubt cast many guns, and went to England in charge of them. If they had been used as he wished, as he implored the King, we are told, on his bended knees to do,^ the fate of the day might have been different. But James's infatuated obstinacy threw away that chance as it did others. Let us see meanwhile in detail what the number and equipment of these guns really were.
The army, as we know, assembled on the Borough Muir, but the artillery does not appear to have gone there. On the day above mentioned five cannon were " put on gait " and drawn by men to the Nether Bow in St. Mary's Wjmd, where they remained all night watched by twelve men.' On the morrow they started on their journey south. The first cannon must have been smaller than the others ; it had a team of oxen provided
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by the Captain of the Castle, with eight drivers, and as each man drove four oxen this would only make thirty-two oxen in all ; the other two cannon were each drawn by thirty-six oxen with nine drivers, the teams being furnished by beasts partly provided by the King himself and partly by private individuals, among whom may be mentioned " the laird of Dunnys," the Prior of Whithorn, and the Provost of Coldstream. They had ropes attached before and behind to keep them " at upwith and dounewith," that is, to help the oxen going up a hill or to put a drag on when going down hill. Each gun was accompanied by a corps of twenty men, with spades, shovels, and picks to level the road in different places and generally to assist their progress; they may possibly also have been intended to make entrenchments when the time came. Each man — both drivers and pioneers — got a shilling a day while in Scotland and sixteen- pence while in England; fourteen days' wages were paid them at the former rate and eight at the latter. On the 19th August the remaining guns got under weigh. There were two "gros cul- veringis," the first drawn by thirty-six oxen and with a similar body of men at the cannon ; the second gun of the same type had only thirty-two oxen. There were four culverins " pikmoyane,'' each drawn by sixteen oxen, with four drivers and ten pioneers. There were six smaller pieces, each with eight oxen and a horse and six pioneers. A
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crane was taken, probably for the purpose of slinging the guns when required, and there were four score of " foir oxen," or fore oxen, which may have been used for assisting the regular teams in any specially diflBcult place. The " gun stanis" were carried in creels or baskets on the backs of twenty-eight horses, but some were taken in carts.^ There were at least a dozen carts with gunpowder, and the " bumeledaris " of Edinburgh, probably persons who dug the ditches and drains or sunk the wells in connection with the primitive water supply of the town, furnished two cartfuls of spades, shovels, picks, and mattocks. Eobert Borthwick had twenty-six men under his more immediate command in connection with the working of the guns; and Barcar and several other smiths took their tools, together with iron and coals and probably anvils, to execute any work that might be found necessary on the guns. The smiths appear to have got two shillings a day, a much higher rate of pay than the usual.
The diflSculties of transporting such an amount of artillery and ammunition so far south as England must have been considerable. The route taken was probably over Soutra Hill to Coldstream, a distance of forty-eight miles. James, we are told,^ entered England on the 22nd August, but as the last of the guns did not leave Edinburgh before the 20th, the King with
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characteristic impatience must have pushed on considerably in advance of the heavier portion of his army. This indeed is reflected in the accounts, from which we see that he did not even wait for his standards to be ready, a man having to wait on their completion and bring them after the King "in haist, that nycht that the Kingis Grace departit furth of Edinburgh." * Even so late as the 19th of August we find the purchase of a stand of harness for the King noted ; it was bought from Sir David Guthrie, who only got an obligation for the payment of it — ready money was not, we may suppose, very accessible at the time. But the guns, or some of them at least, must have come up with commendable quickness, as they were probably employed in the reduction of the Castles of Etal and Wark and Norham — the siege of the latter occupied five days, and it surrendered on the 29th August. One incident in the journey of the guns is narrated in the accounts, which is not without interest. At Dalkeith an ox which formed part of one of the teams had the misfortune to break its neck by being run over by one of the cannon. Anothei was bought in its place at the cost of 32s., and the deceased ox was given to the men to eat — tk part of the commissariat which was doubtless duly enjoyed.
Before closing these remarks on the preparations
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for Flodden it may be noted that there are many other interesting details concerning them in the accounts. We have, for instance, the charges for making the tents, some of leather, others of canvas, and a body of forty men were employed to pitch and strike them. The banners and standard were made at the last moment. There were two banners of St. Andrew and St. Margaret, each made of four ells of blue taffety, while the King's standard was of red taffety and three ells in length, which is shorter than might have been supposed, as a King's standard to be borne in war is said by the old writers to be nine yards long. All these flags were heavily fringed, and for the convenience of carriage were inclosed in leather cases.^
There is a curious incident recorded in the Ap- pendix in relation to the Irish Chieftain O'Donell. We have seen that he was in Scotland in July 1513, the Earl of Argyll getting £50 for his expenses.* There was some idea of creating a diversion in Ireland which might occupy the attention of the English King. The chief was hospitably entertained on his visit. The sum paid to Argyll must have been for the expenses of his journey. We now find that he himself got £40 " in plakkis " for his costs while in Edinburgh, and a present, when he took his departure, of £160.* But more was done : a big gun and a
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culverin, with proportionate ammunition, was sent, as far as Glasgow, probably with the intention of being shipped to Ireland. With them went seven quarriers " for the undermyning of wallis," which speaks of a projected siege. In addition to all this cavalcade there were sixteen " tume " or empty carts sent, which were destined to bring home wine expected to be landed on the west coast from France. What hitch occurred we do not know : perhaps it was felt that the guns could not be spared at such a critical time. But certain it is that the guns never got to Ireland, as on the 14th of August more carts were dispatched to Glasgow to bring them home again, and we are told that they took ten days to come home, so that they would not arrive in Edinburgh till the 24th, probably too late to be of assistance to the army, which had by that time started for England.^
Miscellaneous.
The volume of accounts is necessarily of so large a size that space forbids more than a very few subjects being touched upon in the Preface. The student of history and manners wiU find much to interest him in the various items detailed in the following pages. One or two can only be briefly referred to. Life at Court went on very much as it had done in previous years, but many little
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details are new. For the first time in the accounts we have information of the King's winnings at cards — all the former entries referred to his losses. We are told, however, that he once won twenty- six ducats; but with characteristic generosity they were incontinently given away to a Spaniard whose ship had been captured by Macleod, who no doubt was always on the look-out for such sendings of Providence in the Western Isles. Another testimony, if any were wanted, to the King's kindness of heart is found in an entry on 30th April 1508, when three shillings were given " to ane pure bame that tuke the King by the hand." May we see in this the Eoyal power of touching for scrofula? The superstition widely obtained for centuries. Laurentius, physician to Henry IV. of France, claims that the power com- menced with Qovis I., while others say that it was of English growth, commencing with Edward the Confessor and descending only to such foreign sovereigns as could show an alliance with the Royal family of England. However this may be, it is a most graphic incident to meet with in the midst of a series of accounts ; and even if we dismiss the idea of its having the medical signifi- cance to which allusion has been made, it shows the accessibility and kindliness which made access to the Scottish Sovereign open to a poor Scottish child. We have not so many notices .as previously of
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the King's pets, but the marmoset from Calicut was a new addition to the Koyal menagerie/ and there is a notice of a " must " (probably an animal of a similar kind to the " must cat " mentioned in previous volumes) being brought to the King by a friar of Ferrara, for which he got the large sum of £70.*
The King's table during the period of these accounts was augmented by some handsome plate both of silver and gold, details of which will be found in pp. 321 and 532 ; in the latter page it is mentioned that for the " bostering " of two gold trenchers there was delivered to the goldsmith the silver of the greatest broken " beriall pig." It is difficult to say what this means: a "pig" is usually an earthenware, not a metal vessel ; but it may be permitted to hazard a guess that the "beriall pig" may have been a receptacle for ashes or other relics of a deceased person.
The tournament alluded to as having taken place at the end of May 1508 * was given when the Lord of Aubigny came to Scotland. It was very much a repetition of the one given in 1507, but rather on a grander scale. Pitscottie gives a long account of it, and says it lasted for forty days, which is probably a gross exaggeration. He says also that at the end there were '* bancats" given at Holyrood for three days, and at each banquet a farce or play was acted, together with
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conjuring tricks. In the more trustworthy, if less amusing, accounts we only read of " the bancat," " the play," " the dans," which points to only one entertainment having been given. It was no doubt done in very good style, but there is no hint to corroborate Pitscottie's marvellous story about "ane clwdd" which descended from the roof of the Hall and " cleikkit up the blak lady."* In accordance with a rather absurd custom of the time the housings of the horses of the knights in the tournament and their own servants seem to have been ornamented with letters, which probably had some significance, as we find Piers the painter getting no less than £5 12s. 6d. for cutting them out of velvet.*
It must be left for the diligent student of the accounts to cull for himself the items which most interest him. We must now take leave of the Accounts of the Treasurers of James IV., which have filled three volumes of the present series. One cannot read them without feeling that the Scottish nation was full of life and vigour in those days. It was not so poor as it afterwards became ; the country was on the whole perfectly safe to travel through, and the roads must have been quite fairly good, certainly sufficiently so for the needs of the inhabitants. The population, from the glimpses we get of it, seem to have lived in
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tolerable comfort, probably more comfortably than they did m later times. The turbulent members of society were kept in order, and the King's writ ran in most parts, at all events, of his dominions, and when there was any difficulty about it the King's strong hand was sure to be felt ere long. The nobles, whose internecine quarrels worked more to the detriment of Scotland than anything .else in her history, were kept wonderfully quiet, during James's reign. A brilliant and gay Court, if it did not elevate the moral tone of the commons, must at least have raised the standard of taste and the appreciation of art in the kingdom, while literature and science — so far as the latter was understood — received Eoyal recognition and encouragement. Through all the period the com- manding personality of the King stands out con- spicuous. A man with many faults, which were to be bitterly expiated, but also with many virtues; brave and chivalrous to a degree, he won the hearts of his people by his condescension and amiability, while his position in relation to the pohtics of Europe caused him to be courted by foreign Powers in a way which no Scottish Sovereign had previously experienced. Per- sonally, he must have been a charming man ; he had the " Byronic " note in him, but with all the romance and waywardness which formed such integral parts of his character, he did not neglect the more practical issues of life, as is shown by
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the enthusiasm and energy with which he threw himself into the work of fitting out his navy and raising the efficiency of the military service of his kingdom. His features have been preserved to us on the canvas of Holbein,^ though the picture has been so repainted as to convey very little impression of its original execution. The face is rather a sad one, with large and lustrous eyes, high cheek bones, and a large but firm mouth, the cheeks clean shaved. In his hand, large, slender, and sinewy, he holds a flower, apparently a Marguerite, an allusion to his Queen. The dress is dark, and not particularly becoming. There is another and more interesting portrait by Mytens in Keir House ; in this the King is attired more as one would expect he would be. He wears a soft black cap with a gold brooch in front ; a white shirt adorned at the throat with a a border of gems appears at the breast and wrists ; the doublet and robe are of scarlet slashed with cloth of gold, the latter being trimmed with brown fur at the breast and sleeves ; on the left fist of the King is perched a peregrine falcon with a leash attached to the jesses turned round three of the fingers, while the right hand holds, pressed against the side, a lilac hawk's rest or " block," decorated with dark green fillets. The face, seen in the three-quarters to the left, is exceedingly indi- vidual in features and expression, the cheeks
' In the poBsessioD of the Marquess of Lothian at Newbattle Abbey.
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shaven, the protruding upper lip showing the slight stubble of a dark moustache, the eyes greyish hazel, the eyebrows dark brown, and the brown hair falling in large thick masses over the shoulders.^
I have thought it not inappropriate to close the series of Prefaces dealing with the accounts of this monarch, with a description of his personal appearance as it has been preserved to us. I take leave of him with regret as I would part with an ' intimate personal friend.
It only remains for me to acknowledge with grateful thanks the assistance which has been rendered me by several persons in the prepara- tion of this volume. Especially do I owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. John Scott, C.B., whose intimate knowledge of everything relating to ship- building and ships both ancient and modem has enabled me to throw light on many an expression which would otherwise have remained obscure. He has been most kind in reading the proofs of the accounts which relate to the naval prepara- tions. It is, perhaps, superfluous to mention the name of Mr. Maitland Thomson, Curator of the Historical Department, as one to whom due acknowledgment should be made for much kindly help; no person who has trodden the thorny
'The description of the Keir picture is taken from an account by the late J. M.
Gray, Curator of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
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paths of Eecords can have failed to profit by his guidance. To the Eev. John Anderson, the Assistant Curator, is due more than a mere formal word of thanks. He is ever full of suggestion and resource, and ever ready to place them at the disposal of the importunate editor. My assistant, Mr. P. J. H. Mackenzie, has been most pains- taking in all the work which has devolved on him, and Mr. Joseph Davidson, of the Advocates' Library, is responsible for the Index, not the least valuable and necessary part of a book like the present.
J. B. P.
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CoMPOTUM Jacobi Abbatis de Dunfermling The- saurarii anno infrascripto.
Compotum venerabilis in Crifito patris Jacobi Abbatis de Dunferm[ling The]saurarii Domini Eegis redditum apud Edinburgh octavo die mensis Augusti anno Domini mill68i[mo] quingentesimo octavo de omnibus receptis suis et expensis de universis et singulis pecuniarum 8[um]mis wardis releviis, maritagiis, eschaetis, finibus, compoeitionibus, remissionibus et aliis accident[ibu8] qnibuscunque a die sexto mensis Septembris anni Domini millesimi quingentesimi septimi usque in diem higus compoti inclusive coram auditoribus subscriptis, videlicet, reverendis in Cristo patribus Willelmo, Andrea et David, Abirdonensi,Moraviensi et Lismorensi Episcopis, nobilibus et prepotentibus Dominis Archibaldo Comite de Ergill, Domino Campbell et Lom, Matheo Comite de Levinax Domino Demlie, venerabilibus in Cristo patribus, Johanne Priore Ecclesie Metropolitane Sanctiandree, Jacobo Abbate de Scona, Henrico Abbate de Jedburgh, Jacobo Reidheuch, compotorum Rotulatore Johanne Bam- A
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A.D. 1507. gay ^Q Trarenjeane milite et Roberto Colvile de Hiltoun Directore Cancellarie et Johanne Quhite Rectore de Petcokkis per commissionem Domini Regis specialiter deputatis.
Item, onerat se de ix^^iij^'xj M. xv g. vj d. obolo per arreragia ultimi compoti sui ut patet in pede ejusdem.
Sunmia arreragii patet.
A VICBCOMITIBUS in Scaccario anno predicto.
Item, idem onerat se de xiiij U. receptis a vicecomite de Bervik in Scaccario anno quingentesimo octavo ; et de Ixxxxviij H. a vicecomite de Fife ; et de Ixx H. xiij S. iiij d. a vicecomite de Banff; et de xxxvj H. a senescallo de Straitheme ; et de v^lxxxij It. viij §. a vicecomite de Forfair ; et de j®xlj H. vj S. viij d. a senescallo Vallis Annandie ; et de xx K. a vicecomite de Selkirk; et de xlv It. ix 3. a vicecomite de Kincardin; et de Ixviij H. a vicecomite de Edinburgh ; et de lij VL X d. obolo a vicecomite de Linlithqw ; et de ij^lxxxvj H. V 8. iiij d. a vicecomite de Perth ; et de Iv H. a vice- comite de Lanark ; et de Ix H. xiiij S. viij d. a vice- comite de Peblis ; et de vj^xxxvj H. vj S. viij d. a vicecomite de Striveling; et de viij H. xij S. a vicecomite de "Wigtoun; et de xv 11. a vicecomite de Edinburgh infra constabulariam de Hathin- toun; et de j^lxxiiij H. xiij 8. iiij d. a vicecomite de Dumfreis ; et de ix S. a senescallo de Menteith ; et de j^lxxix H. xv S. ij d. a vicecomite de Dunbretane ; et de j^xij H. iiij S. v d. a senescallo de Kirkcud- brytht ; et de iiij It. a vicecomite de Elgin; et de xx H. a vicecomite de Roxburth eodem anno in Scaccario. Summa hujus onerationis
ij'"vj^lxxxix H. ix S. iiij d. obolus. Tenet A,
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Item, idem onerat se de iiij^lxxxxiij H. xvj s. viij d., in partem solutionis noningintarum sex librarum com- positionum remissionnm factarum in itinere justiciarie de Dmide, tento in mense Marcii anno \^ septimo ; et sic restant iiij^^j H. iij S. iiij d., onerande ut supra.
CoMPOsmoNES RBMissiONUM extra itinera per tempus compoti.
Item, idem onerat se de j^x M., in partem solutionis tricentarum sexaginta quatuor librarum compositionuin remissionum extra itinera per tempus compoti ; et sic restant ij^liiij U., onerande ut supra.
CoAfPOSiTiONBS CARTARUM infra hoc compotum.
Item, idem onerat se de Ixvj tL xiij S. iij d., pro carta Alexandri Stratoun de eodem de duabus nonis partibus terrarum de Inverbervy que recognite fuerunt.
Et de vj M. xiij 3. iiij d., pro carta Willelmi Grordoune, filii Patricii Gordoun, de terris de Johnnsleys.
Et de lix H. yj 3. viij d., pro carta feodifirme Andree de Pettindreich de terris de uvir et nethir Fettindreich, Cragmidarte, cum molendino de Pettindrech et piBcaria in aqua de Dovarn, per resignationem Abbatis de Deir, sui f ratris.
Et de xl U., pro carta Tristrami Gorthy de eodem de terris de Gorthy cum molendino et medietate de Dal- patrik, unitis in liberam baroniam.
Et de viij H., pro carta confirmationis Johannis Scheves de terris de Burnschelis.
Et de XX tt., in partem solutionis compositionis quad- raginta librarum pro carta Walteri Cullace de
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A.D. 1507. dimedietate terrarum et baronie de Menmure ; et
restant xx It., onerande ut supra.
Et de X M., pro compositione carte Robert! Innes de Invermarky de viginti duabus mercatis terrarum dominicalium de Innes.
Et de XX H., pro carta Alexandri Gadderare, burgensis de Elgin, super duabus cartis sibi factis per Alexandrum Innes de eodem de terris de Corsky.
Et de ij^xlvj H., in partem solutionis quingintarum librarum pro compositione carte Willelmi Douglas de Drumlanrig pro terris et baronia de Hawik, et Dominus Rex remisit viginti libras de principali summa Georgeo Chesholme de eodem per literas sub signeto et subscriptione; et sic restant ij^xxxiiij H., onerande ut supra.
Non onerat se de xl H., pro compositione carte Jacobi Lummisdene, filii et heredis apparentis Thome Lum- misdane de Condolane, de terris de Condolane.
Item, idem onerat se de xxiiij M., pro carta Ade Scott de Tuschelaw de terris de Tuschelau cum pertinentiis.
Et de xxiiij H., pro carta Walteri Scot de Houpaslot de loco et terris de Laudhoip.
Et de X H., pro carta confirmationis Thome Fentoun de Ougill de terris de Beuforte.
Et de xxiiij H., pro carta feodifirme Johannis Scott de loco de Hanyng in warda de Ettrik, infra forestam ejusdem.
Non onerat se nee onerabitur in futurum de Ixvj H. xiij §. iiij d., pro compositione carte Archibaldi Napar de Merchainestoun de dimedietate terrarum de Rusky et aliis terris in dicta carta contentis, quia Dominus Rex remisit dictam summam Johanni Ramsay, militi, per suas literas.
Item, idem onerat se de xlvj H. xiij S. iiij d., in partem solutionis centum mercarum compositionis carte Walteri Innes <le terns de Towchis et Petfour que rccognite f uerunt ; et restant xx It., onerande ut supra.
Et de iij^xxxiij H. vj S. viij d., in partem solutionis
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quadringintarum librarum pro carta conjuncte infeo- a.d. 1607.
dationis Willelmi Oliphant de terns et baronia de
Strabrok que fuerunt Greorgei Oliphant; et sic
restant solvende Ixvj li. xiij S. iiij d., onerande ut
supra. Et de XX It., pro compositione carte Jacobi Dunbar de
Westfeilde, de eisdem terris in conjuncta infeodatione. Non onerat se de xv H., carte Johannis Lokart de terris
de Bar, onerandis ut supra. Item, idem onerat se de j^Tclvj It. xiij S. iiij d., pro carta
Johannis Pennicuke de eodem, militis, de terris et
baronia de Penicuke et advocatione ecclesie que
recognite fuerunt. Et de X M., pro compositione carte Patricii Sleich et
Jonete, sponse sue, de terris de Cumleich. Nee onerat se de 1 H., compositionis carte Magistri
Willehni Ogilvy de terris de Baldavy et certis aliis
terris in dicta carta contentis. Item, idem onerat se de iij H., pro carta conjuncte infeo-
dationis Roberti Carlile de terris de Glenturk et
Carsley. Et de XXV Ii.,in partem solutionis quinquaginta librarum
pro carta Theme Corre de Keldwode de terris de
Thomastoun et molendino et aliis terris ; et sic restant
XXV H., onerande ut supra. Et de vj H. xiij S. iiij d., pro carta confirmationis Johannis
Ogilvy super quarta parte terrarum de Arde. Et de xiij H. vj s. viij d., pro carta confirmationis Jacobi
Arbuthnot de eodem de duabus nonis partibus de
Inverbervy. Et de 1 H, in partem solutionis centum librarum com- positionis carte Cuthberti Comitis de Glencarne de
terris et baronia de Hiltoun; et sic restant 1 H.,
onerande ut supra. Et de Ixvj It. xiij §. iiij d., pro carta Eoberti Lauder de
Bas de dimedietate terrarum de Bas et Ne\\^ton. Et de j® H., pro carta Johannis Murray de CokpuU de
terris de Cokpule.
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A.D. 1507. Et de X n., carte confirmationis Johannis Durahame de tenia de Innenee.
Et de iij^j H. vij g., in partem solutionis sexingintarum nonaginta octo librarum tresdecim solidorum quatuor denariorum compositionis carte Jacobi Dunbar de Westfeild de terris et baronia de Cumnok; et sic restant iij^lxxxxv H. vj S. iiij d.
Et de yj B. xiij 3. iiij d., pro carta conjuncte infeoda- tionis David Skrimgeour de Fardill et sue sponse de quarta parte terrarum de Fardill.
Et de j^xxxviij H. viij S. iiij d., in partem solutionis quadriugintarum sexaginta sex librarum tresdecim solidorum iiij denariorum compositionis carte Eoberti Bertoun de terris de Bemtoun ; et sic restant ij^lxxviij H. V S. j d.
Et de j^xxxiij U. vj 9. viij d., in partem solutionis tricentarum librarum carte Greorgei M^istri Angusie de terris et dominio de Selkirk ; et sic restant j^lxvj U. xiij 3. iiij d., onerande ut supra.
Et de Ixvj tt. xiij 9. iiij d., in partem solutionis centum triginta trium librarum sex solidorum octo denariorum compositionis carte Boberti Erskin, militis, de terris de Sintoun et suis tenandriis ; et sic restant Ixvj U. xiij 9. iiij d., onerande ut supra.
Et de vj^xj H. XV d., in partem solutionis mille tri- centarum triginta trium librarum sex solidorum octo denariorum compositionis carte Johannis Domini Somirvell de terris et baronia de Camveth que recc^nite fuerunt ; et sic restant vij^xxij M. v S. v d., onerande ut supra.
Et de vj It xiij 9. iiij d., in partem solutionis viginti mercarum compositionis carte Thome Lewis de terris de Brigland que recognite fuerunt; et sic restant vj H. xiij 9. iiij d., onerande ut supra.
Et de iij tt., in partem solutionis compositionis carte confirmationis CrietineBroune, filie et heredis quondam Johannis Broune, extendentis ad quatuor libras de quarta parte terrarum de Cullace ; et restant xx 9.
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Et de viij H. xix §., carte confirmationis Johannis a.d. I607.
Kennedy de Blarquhan de uno annuo in baronia de
Alway jaeente infra vieecomitatum de Aire. Et de vj^lxvj It. xiij S. iiij d., in partem solutionis
octingintarum librarum carte Alexandri Comitis de
Hnntlie de terns et foresta de Cabrauch ; et sic
restant j*^xxxiij It. yj S. viij d., onerande. Et de xvj H., pro carta confirmationis Walteri Cargill de
Kinlouch super terris de Logy Ester et Westir et
aliis in dicta carta specificatis. Et de iij ML vj S. viij d., pro carta confirmationis Duncani
Campbell de terris de Finlaarde. Non onerat se de viij H., pro carta confirmationis Walteri
Euvane de Lownan pro terris de Walliston. Item, idem onerat se de xx U., pro carta Alexandri
Malvill de terris de Hervistoun. Et non onerat se de xx U., carte confirmationis Duncani
Campbell, militis, de terris de Schear, Ballouch et aliis
terris. Item, idem onerat se de xx It., pro carta Johannis
Montigomory, militis, de terris de Cragle que
recognite fuerunt. Non onerat se de xl Il.,pro carta confirmationis Alexandri
Borthuik in conjuncta infeodatione de terris de
Gordounehall et Lany. Item, idem onerat se de v H. vj S. viij d., pro carta
confirmationis Willelmi Menteith et sue sponse de
octo mercatis terrarum de Westir Alway. Et de xiij H. vj S. viij d., pro carta Johannis Gledstanis
vel Ade Peblis de una mercata terre de Akofeild
recognita. Et de iiij U., pro carta confirmationis Alexandri Mowate
de terris de Estir Dryni et aliis in carta contentis. Et de xxviij H. xiij S. iiij d., in partem solutionis carte
fiende Johanni Nesbet de Dalzell de dimedietate
terrarum de Dalzell ; et restant de dicta compositione
ij^xiiij H. xiij S. iiij d.
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Oneratio compositionum wardarum, rbleviorum, mari- TAGIORUM ET NONINTROITUUM infra hoc compotum.
A.D. 1507. Item, idem onerat se de j^ U., in partem solutionis ducentarum quinquaginta librarum pro litera Domini Begis concessa Roberto Gordoune de Glen admittente eundem Robertum ad terras de Glenskirbume et aliis terris (sic) in manibus Regis pro tempore existentes ; et sic restant j^l Q., onerande ut supra.
Et de vj n. xiij S. iiij d., pro warda certarum terrarum in Cleisch per mortem quondam Cristiane Prestoun, sponse Roberti Levingstoun, vendita Roberto Colvill.
Et de j^xx U., in partem solutionis centum sexaginta librarum pro maritagio Johannis Barde, nepotis et heredis quondam Gilberti Barde, unacum nonintroitu Sancti Martini ultimi vendito David Craufurde de Kers ; et sic restant xl U., onerande ut supra.
Et de iiij^lxvj H. xiij S. iiij d., pro maritagio Andree Ker, nepotis et heredis quondam Walteri Ker de Cesfurde, vendito Patricio Creichtoune de Cranstoun, militL
Et de j^xxv Q., in partem solutionis sexingintarum sexaginta sex librarum tresdecim soUdorum quatuor denariorum pro maritagio et warda quondam Ade Cunynghaim de Caprintoun, venditis Comiti de Glencam et Andree Cunynghaim de Drumquhassill et aUis ; et restant v^xlj It. xiij S. iiij d., onerande ut supra.
Et de j*^xxxiij H. vj s. viij d., in plenam solutionem compositionis nonintroituum xl^ mercatarum terrarum in villa de Edname, venditorum Patricio Hume de Fastcastell.
Et de Ixvj It. xiij S. iiij d., pro compositione maritagii Alexandri Name de Sandfurde, venditi Magistro Johanni Name et suis assignatis.
Non onerat se de ij® It., pro warda et maritagio heredis quondam Johannis Edingtoun de eodem, venditis Thome Hume de Langschau, militi.
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Item, idem onerat se de v® H.^ in partem solutionis a.d. 1607. sexingintarom sexaginta sex Hbrarum tresdecim solidornm quatnor denariorum compositionis warde et maritagii quondam Ade Mure de Caldwell, militis, venditarum Matheo Comiti de Levinax ; et sic reetant j^lxvj M. xiij S. iiij d., onerande ut supra.
Et de 1 H, pro warda et n^aritagio heredis quondam Johannis Forestar de Qamilschelis.
Et de Ixvj B. xiij 3. iiij d., pro nonintroitu terrarum de Lethinturkis vendito Willelmo Forbes.
Et de Ixxxxiij H. vj S. viij d., in partem solutionis warde et maritagii heredis quondam de Syplaunde .
venditarum Patricio Sinclare ; et restant
Et de xxxiij U. vj 3. viij d., in partem solutionis maritagii Johannis Muncreif de litill Muncreif venditi Willelmo Chalmer de Drumlouchy; et restant xxxiij H. yj S. viij d.
Et de X tiy pro warda quinque mercatarum terrarum antiqui extentus de Drumour et Closchclais vendita Gilberto Makalexandere.
CoMPOsmoNES BONORUM ESCHAETORUM per tcmpus compoti.
Item, idem onerat se [de] x U., pro eschaeta bonorum Donaldi Brisban, ad comu Regis existentis, vendita Johanni Brisbane.
Et de xiij M. vj S. viij d., in partem solutionis xl** mercarum compositionis eschaete Johannis Chan- ceUair de Quodquen et Johannis Pumf ray convictorum pro errore ; et sic restant xiij H. vj 8. viij d.
Et non onerat se de xxvj It xiij 3. iiij d., de eschaetis Andree Gakye, Johannis Michelsoun, et Jacobi Michelsoun, ad comu Regis positorum, venditis Johanni Cranstoun de Harlau.
Item, idem onerat se de xvj U. xiij 3. iiij d., pro eschaeta Thome Tumour, fugitivi pro interfectione Johannis
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A.D. 1507. Loury, vendita Magistro Johanni Murray et Cuthberto
M^Dowall. Et de xxxvj H. xiij §. iiij d., pro eschaeta Domini de Terriglis, ad comu et extra regnum.
FiRME TBRRARUM IN MANIBUS REGIS BXISTENTIUM per
tempus compoti.
Item, idem onerat se de lix M. vj S. viij d., de firmis terrarum de Louchoreschire et aliarum terrarum in manibus Begis existentium ratione warde de termino Sancti Martini hujus compoti spectantium Boberto Wemys de Drumry et dictus Robertas recuperavit sasinam dictarum terrarmn ante terminum Penthe- coBtes ultimmn; et compotans non onerat se de novemdecim libris sex solidis octo denariis de firmis tenandrie de Fetcame in dominio de Louchorschire, nee de xiij 9. iiij d., de dictis terris de Louchorschire de dicto termino, quia compotans n^Ugenter oneravit se cum dictis firmis in ultimo compoto suo; nee de viginti libris firmarum terrarum de Gorgy spectantium dicto Boberto de eodem termino Sancti Martini quia compotans oneratur cum eisdeni in rotulis in com- poto vicecomitis de Edinburgh.
Et de Ixxx U., de firmis baronie de Inverkethin, in manibus Begis existentis de terminis Penthecostes et Sancti Martini anni quingentesimi septimi.
Et de Iiij H. vj s. viij d., de firmis terrarum de Dalsuin- toun, in warda existentium, in plenam solutionem termini Fenthecostes et in partem solutionis termini Sancti Martini anni quingentesimi sexti ; et restant solvende de dictis firmis de terminis elapsis ij^liij U. vj S. viij d., onerande ut supra,
Et de Ixxxvj H. iij S. iij d., de firmis terrarum de Glen- bervy, Barres, et dimidietatis de Kemnay de terminis compoti ultra decimum denarium debitum Episcopo Brechinensi et unum annuum redditum exeuntem de
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eisdem de termino Penthecostes heredibus quondam ^•^- IW.
Willelmi Bonare. Et de Ixyj It, pro venditione duodecim celdrarum sex
boUarum victualium de terris de Glenbervy de croppo
anni quingenteeimi sexti ultra decimum denarium ut
supra. Et de xiij U. xj 3. ix d. obolo, de firmiB alteiius
dimedietatis de Eemnay receptis a Willelmo Forbes
per tempus compoti preter decimum denarium debitum
Episcopo Abirdonensi. Et de j^lxix U. v 3. iiij d., de firmis terrarum con-
stabularie de Dunde in plenam solutionem terminorum
Penthecostes et Martini anni quingenteeimi septimi,
et in partem solutionem termini Penthecostes ultimi;
de dicto ultimo termino viij H. xiiij 8. viij d., onerande
ut supra. Et de viij M. xiiij S. viij d., de resta firmarum dictarum
terrarum immediate prescriptarum. Et de XXV H xvj d., de firmis terrarum de Canterlande
de terminis compoti in warda existentium. Et de Ij It. xiij 3. iiij d., de firmis tenandriarum de
Caveris receptis a vicecomite de Roxburgh et a
domino de Cranstoun de terminis compoti. Et de xxj H vj 3. viij d., de firmis de Oxnaim a Roberto
Rjnde et Andrea Eer termini Penthecostes infra hoc
compotum. Et de xxxij H., a Domino Creichtoun de Sanquhar et
Roberto Colvill de firmis baronie de Uchiltre, Symon-
toun, et Bemvele termini Penthecostes ultimi in
manibus Regis existentis. Et de viij It, de firmis baronie de Caveris receptis a
Domino Cranstoune de termino Penthecostes ultimo. Item, idem onerat se de xl It. a Magistro Pfttricio
Middiltoune, granitario Sanctiandree pro tempore. Et de j^'xl H., receptis ab Archidiacono Sanctiandree
de confirmationibus magnorum testamentomm per
tempus compotL Et de iij^xj It. xiij 3. iiij d., a David Lermonth,
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A.D. 1507. Camerario Sanctiandree, de firmis terrarum et
ecclesiarum dicti ArchiepiscopatuB.
Et de vj'' H., a dicto David de eisdem firmis.
Et de yj^xxix H. v S. viij d., a Magistro Georgeo Ler- month de procurationibus sinoalibus et confirma- tionibus minoriim testamentorum per dictum tempus.
Et de XXXV U. a Domino Georgeo Newtoun de sub- sidio.
Et de 1 tt., in plenam solutionem compositionis carte conjuncte infeodationis domini de Kinumquhat sibi facte per Archiepiscopum Sanctiandree.
Et de iij^xlv H. xij §. v d., a Comite de Errole in partem solutionis quingintanmi octuaginta sex librarum tresdecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum pro relevio et nonintroitu terrarum dicti Comitis; et sic restant ij^'xlj H. xj d., onerande ut supra.
Et de iiij'^xxxiij H. vj g. viij d., a Georgeo Domino Setoun in partem solutionis noningintarum librarum com- positionis relevii terrarum dicti Domini; et sic restant iiij^lxvj H. xiij S. iiij d., onerande.
Et de lix 11., de resta feodi Magni Sigilli ultimi com- poti compotantis.
Et de j^'xxv H. ix S., feodi Magni Sigilli per tempus compoti.
Non onerat se de j^xxxiij H. vj 3. viij d., reste composi- tionis amerciamenti Petri Houstoun de eodem, militis, amerciati in itinere de Edinburgh tento anno v*^ sexto et indentati cum vicecomite de Eenfreu, ut patet in rotulo anni quingentesimi septimi.
Item, idem onerat se de ij"j*^]xxxxix M. v §. ij d., provenientibus ex lucro quadringintarum qua[draginta] quatuor librarum duodecim unciarum trunci grossorum ponderislej trones wecht argenti emptarum, [omni]bus oneribus et expensis deductis conetatanmi per tempus compoti.
Et de ij^lxxxviij K. xviij §. vij d., provenientibus ex lucro sexdecim librarum trium unciarum cum dimedia auri conetatarum per tempus compoti.
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Et de xlij tL, de cathena olim pertinente Domino a.d. 1507. Simple, ponderante septem uncias dimedia et conetata in summa ponderis auri predicti, que cathena scribitur in pede compoti quondam Roberti Lundy de Balgony tunc Thesaurarii et Regi pro summa pre- dicta deliberata. Item, idem onerat se de xxx U., a Domino de Louatt de
extractu itineris justiciarie de Invernes, Et de vj H. xiij §. iiij d., a Willebno Chesholm de dicto
extractu. Et de Iiij H. vj S. viij d., a Johanne Makenze de Kintaill de eodem extractu.
Summa totalis onerationis preter arreragia,
xx"lxxxiij H. iij S. obolus. Summa totalis onerationis cum arreragiis,
xxix^iij^lxxxxiiij It xviij 3. vij d. Tbnei a.
Expense.
Item, the ix day of September, for vij J^ elne Paris
blak, to be ane goun to the King ; ilk elne 1 §. ;
summa ...... xviij H. xv S.
Item, fpr xij elne taflFety to lyne the samyn ; ilk elne
xiij S.; summa . . . . viij H. ix S.
Item, for iiij elne iij quarteris wellus to be ane half
cote to half ane cote of satin crammesy; ilk elne
xliiij S.; summa . . . x M. ix S.
Item, for vj elne taffety to lyne the said cote ; ilk elne
xiij §.; summa .... iij H. xviij 8.
Item, for iiij elne quhit to it fra the waist doun for to
put betuix it and the lynyng ; ilk elne xviij d. ;
summa . . vj 3.
Item, for iiij yi elne Rislis blak, to be ane cote to the
King; ilk elne xxvj 3. viij d.; summa . vj M.
Item, the xv day of September, for ane hors to the
King, bocht at Gibbe Cameron, xj Franch crownis;
summa . . . . . vij H. xiiij 3.
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A.D. 1507. Item, for ii^' elne i^' quartans wellus to half ane cote
for ane other half cote of cloth of gold; ilk
elne xliiij 3.; summa x &. ix S.
Item, the xx day of September, for ane scarlet hat to
the King, . xij S.
Item, for tua tepatis to the King contenand iij elne
tafifety, xxij S.
Item, for iij unce ribanes to be pointis to the King,
XV 9. Item, for ix unce sewing sUk deliverit to the broustair
to be cordis and pointis to the King ; ilk unce iij S.;
summa ...... xxv\j S.
Item, for xviij hankis gold to him ; ilk hank v S.; summa
iiij H X S. Item, for xxiiij elne Holland claith to be ane pair of
schetis to the King; ilk elne v S. vj d.; sunmia
vj It xij S. Item, the x day of October, for xv elne Holland clath
to be thre sarkis to the King; ilk elne x S.; summa
vi j H X 9. Item, for xx elne Holland clath to be othir foure sark;
ilk elne vij 9. vj d.; summa vij H x 9.
Item, for x elne blak carsay to be ane cote to the
King; ilk elne iiij 9. vj d.; summa xlv 9.
Item, for vij quartaris quhit to be ane pair of hames
hoe to the King ; the elne iij 9. vj d.; summa
vj 9. j d. obolus. Item, for ane elne Melan fustian to covir the samyn,
ij 9. viij d. Item, for iij quarteris cammes to thaim, . . xv d. Item, for wellus to thaim, . v 9.
Item, for iij elne iij quartaris Melan fustian to ane
hames doublat, .... viij 9. viy d.
Item, for ane elne cammes to it, . xx d.
Item, for iij % elne lynyng fustian to it ; ilk elne xx d. ;
summa v 9. x d.
Item, the xxii^ day of October, for iij>^ elne satin
crammesy to be ane doublat to the King ; ilk elne
iij 11. ; summa ,,,,,, xU^? S,
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Item, for iij elne satin to be ane doublat to the King ; a.d. 1507.
ilk elne xxv S. ; summa . iij 11 xv S.
Item, for vj elne fustian to covir ane cote abone hames
to the King ; ilk elne ij 9. viij d. ; summa xvj 9.
Item, for ane bat to the King, . xij 9.
Item, for ane tepat to the King, contenand vj quarteris,
xjg.
Item, payit to George Hakirstoun for xij lang hames pointis homyt with gold, tua smallar homyt with gold, tua targetis for bonetis hornyt with gold for bonetis, five Melane bonetis, thre spere hedis and frenjes of gold and sUk he brocht hame, be the Kingis command, . xxxij Q. xiij 9. iiij d.
Item, for vj elne Scottis blak to be ane cote to the King; ilk elne xiij 9. iiij d. ; sunmia . . . iiij H
Item, the vj day of November, for iiij elne Holland clath quhilk wes wippes to the Kingis arm that wes hurt ; the elne v 9. vj d. ; summa , xxij 9.
Item, for iij elne j quartar dames to eik the Kingis liar ; ilk elne xxiiij 9. ; summa . • • iij II« xviij 9.
Item, for translating of the said liar, v 9.
Item, the xv day of November, for xvjj!^ elne wellus to be ane cote to the King; ilk elne xliiij 9.; summa
xxxvj H. yj 9.
Item, for xx fyne huge skinnis to it; ilk pece ix 9. ; summa
ixli.
Item, for j ^ bred huge to it ; the bred v H. ; summa
vij H. X 9.,
Item, for ij elne Rislis b^k to be hos to the King,
Iiij 9. iiij d.
Item, for wellus to bordour thaim, . . . x 9.
Item, for ane hors to the King quhilk wes bocht in Dunbar, . . v H. xij 9.
Item, to Riche Bailee for ane hors to the King, x &.
Item, for ane hors to the King, bocht atWilliam Spicehous,
vij H.
Item, to Johne Davidson for schone, butis, and pantonis
• fra Lammes bipast to Alhallo day, vij M. iij 9. viij d.
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A.D. 1607. Item, the secund day of December, for ij steikis thre
quartans steik chamlot to be ane goun to the King ;
the steik v H. ; summa . . xiij H. xv S.
Item, for lynyng of [it] with toddis, . . x M.
Item, the vj day of December, for ix ehie j quartar blak
satin to be ane steikit cote to the King ; ilk elne
xxiiij §.; summa . . xj It ij 9.
Item, for vj ^ elne cammes to steik it on ; ilk elne
XX d.; summa . . . . . x d. x d.
Item, for ix % elne satin crammesy to be ane cote to the
King ; ilk elne iij It. ; summa . xxviij It. x 3
Item, for iiij elne iij quartaris quhit; ilk elne xx d.;
summa . . . . . vij 9. xj d.
Item, for j bred huge and xv skinnis to it to lyn it,
vj H X 9. Item, for ane pund small Bii^e threid to sew the Kingis
jak with, . . . . iiij 9.
Item, for tua bonetis to the King, . . xxiiij 9.
Item, for ane tepat to the collar of the Kingis cloke,
vj 9. Xtem, for iij elne iij quartaris satin to be ane doublat to
the King ; ilk elne xxiiij 9.; summa iiij Q. x 9.
Item, the xij day of December, for xvij>^ elne gray
satin to be ane goun to the King ; ilk elne xxxij 9.;
summa ...... xxviij H.
Item, for vj quartaris wellus to bordour the samyn,
iij B. vj 9. Item, for v fyne huge skinnis to the collar of it ; ilk
pece ix 9.; summa ..... xlv 9. Item, for Ix Romany huge to it ; ilk pece vij 9.; summa
xxj H. Item, for ane bred huge to it, . . . . vj It
Item, for xvj ^ elne tanne wellus to be ane other goun
to the King ; ilk elne Ivj 9.; summa . xlvj H. iiij 9. Item, for xx huge skinnis to the collar and fentis of it ;
ilk pece ix 9.; summa . . . . ix It.
Item, for xxxvj Romany huge to it ; ilk pece vj s.; summa
X H. xvj 9.
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Item, for ane cote half quhit half blak, cuttit in pecis a.i>. 1507.
bocht in Strivelin, . . iij H. xij S. vj d.
Item, for ane" elne weUus to be schone and pantonis to
the King, . . . . . xUiij S.
Item, for iij quartaris satin to be schone to the King,
xviij S. Item, for xvj elne Holland clath to be smal fut schetis ;
ilk elne iij S.; summa . . xlviij S.
Item, for thre hattis tane to the King, . xxxvj S.
Item, for thre bonetis tane fra Thomas Hopringill be
the King himself, ..... xlij 9. Item, for ane tepat to the King contenand vj quartaris,
xj g. Item, for v unce sewing silk deliverit to the capitane of
Edinburghis wif, . xv S.
Item, the xvj day of December, for ane elne Eislis blak
to be hos to the King, xxvj S. viij d.
Item, for othir thre bonetis to the King ; ilk pece xij S. ;
summa ...... xxxvj 3.
Item, the thrid day of Januar, for vij elne Eislis blak to a.d. 1607-8.
be ane gret riding cote; ilk elne xxvj 3.; summa
ix B. ij 3. Item, for cordis silk to it, . . iij 3.
Item, for ane riding bonet to the King, . xij 3.
Item, for ane riding hat to the King, xij 3.
Item, for vij % elne wellus to be ane cote to the King ;
ilk elne xlv 3.; summa . xvj It. xvij 3. vj d.
Item, pay it to Eobert Selkyrk, cultellar, for viij gilt
dagaris tane to the King sen the Assumptioun day
of Our Lady, ...... viij H.
Item, for ane ungilt dagar, . . vij 3.
Item, for ane pair of gret standand kerving knyffis,
iij H. Item, for gilting of ane pair of kerving knyffis, . xl 3. Item, for ane lang tepat taffetj to the King, . xj 3. Item, the x day of Januar, for iij elne satin crammesy
to be ane doublat to the King ; ilk elne iij H.; summa
ix It.
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18 ACCOUNTS OF THE
A.D. 1607-8. Item, the xxvj day of Januar, for ane black cote made
in Strivelin, . . . . iij H. v S. iij d.
Item, the xxvij day of Januar, for ane othir blak cote
maid in Strivelin lynyt with quhit, iiij VL xj S. iij d. Item, the penult day of Januar, for ane hors to the
King bocht at Gibbe Cameroun, . . • Ivj S.
Item, the secund day of Februar, for iij elne blak satin
to be ane doublat to the King; ilk elne xxv S.;
summa . . . . iij M. xv 3.
Item, for half ane mantiU funSeis to ane gown qnhilk
wes translatit, . . . . . .IS.
Item, for ij elne scarlet to be hos to the King, v H.
Item, the'x day of Februar, for x elne wellus to be ane
cote to the King; ilk elne xlv S.; summa xxij H. xS. Item, for leopardis that wantit to the said cote, iij H. Item, to Johne Davidson for schone, butis, pantonis to
the King sen Alhallo day bipast, . . . vj M.
Item, the xxiiij day of Februar, for tua steik and thre
elne chamlot to be ane goun to the King ; ilk steik
iiij H. x S. and ilk elne x S,; summa . x H. x S.
Item, for ane lynyng of toddis to it, . . x H.
Item, for xij elne fyne chamlot to be ane cote to the
King ; ilk elne x §.; summa . . yj H.
Item, for ane tepat tafifetj to the King, . . xj S.
Item, for viij elne braid ribanes to the King, . vij S. Item, for iij ^ elne wellus to be ane doublat to the
King ; the elne xlv S.; summa vij M. xvij S. vj d. Item, the xx day of Februar, to ane cote of satin quhilk
wes translatit, Ix quhit skinnis to lyne it new ; ilk
pece vj a. ; summa ..... xxx S. Item, payit to Alexander, furrour, for fumessing of the
lynyng of the Kingis goun quhilk wes lynyt with
lesardis in the Jeir bipast quhen the said Alexander
wes in Ingland, . . xx S.
Item, payit to the said Alexander for dichting and
wirking of the said lesartis extending to xxxiiij pece,
and for mantilling of thaim, . v H. viij S.
Item, for ane bonet to the King, . . . xij S.
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Item, for ane tepat to the King, . . . xj S. a.d. 1507-8.
Item, the vij day of March, for viij ehie Franch gray
to be ane goun to the King ; ilk ehie x S. ; summa
iiij H. Item, for iiij % ehie Scottis russait to be ane cote to the
King ; ilk elne viij S. ; summa . . xxxvj S.
Item, for lynyng of it with quhit lam skinnis, xxxv §. Item, for iiij elne gray to be ane cloke to the King,
XX §. Item, the ix day of March, for vij elne Franch gray to be
ane cote to the King ; ilk elne x 3. ; summa
4 iij H. X S.
Item, for ij elne Rislis blak to be tua pair hos to the
King, Iiij S.,iiij d.
Item, the xvj day of March, for vij elne Franch gray to
be ane othir cote to the King ; ilk elne x S. ; summa
iij H. X 3. Item, to Johne Francis for four- stand hames to the King,
deliverit to him at divers tymes, . . Ixxx It.
Item, for iij elne iij quartaris satin to be ane doublat to
the King ; ilk elne xxiij 3. ; summa . iiij H. x 3. Item, for vij }i elne wellus to be ane cote to the King ;
ilk elne xlv 3. ; summa ' . xvij tl. xvij 3. vj d.
Item, to Robert Selkyrk, cultellar, for vj gilt dagaris
tane to the King sen ^^le bipast, . vj li
Item, for xvj elne j quartar gray satin to be ane goun
to the King ; ilk elne xxx 3. ; summa
xxiiij H. vij 3. vj. Item, for vj fyne skinnis to the collar of it ; ilk pece
ix 3.; summa ...... liiij 3.
Item, for 1 Romany skinnis to the samyn ; ilk pece
iiij 3. ; summa . . . x B.
Item, for ane bred Flandrez huge to it, . . v H.
Item, for ane blak cote contenyng v elne clath and
lynyt with quhit, maid in Strivelin, quhilk cost
iij H. XV 3. Item, for xviij elne tanne satin to be ane goun to the
King ; ilk elne xxvj 3. ; summa . xxiij M. viij 3.
Digitized by
20 ACCOUNTS OF THE
A.D. 1507-8. Item, for vij skinnifi to the collar of it ; ilk pece vij S. ;
summa ....... xlix S.
Item, for 1 Eomany skimiis to it; ilk pece iiij 9.; summa
X H. Item, for thre bonetis to the King, . . xxxvj S.
Item, for ane cote blak claith maid in Strivelin,
iij H. xiij g. vj d. Item, for iij elne blak satin to be ane doublat to the
King ; ilk elne xxiiij S. ; summa . iij 11. xij S.
A.D. 1608. Item, the xyj day of Aprile, for ij elne Rislis blak to be
hos to the King, Iij S.
Item, iij elne iij quartaris wellus to be ane doublat to
the King ; ilk elne xlv S. ; summa viij H. viij S. ix d. Item, for ane elne Rislis blak to be hos to the King,
xxvj S. Item, for ane hors to the King quhilk wes bocht quhen
the King wes at Quhithim, . . viij H. viij S.
Item, for ane quhit cote bocht to the King in Strivelin,
xxxviij S. viij d. Item, for iij elne Inglis grene to covir the altar in the
Kingis closet ; ilk elne xviij 3.; summa . liiij S.
Item, for iij unce ribanes to the King for his cotis and
othir claithis, , . . . . xv S.
Item, for tua tepatis to the King, . . . xxij S.
Item, for vj elne Scottis russet to be ane goun to the
King ; ilk elne viij S. ; summa . . xlviij S.
Item, xviij elne fyne clath of gold to ane goun, send
hame be Jerome Friscobald, and the remanent of the
said steik giffin to the Quene. Item, put in the samyn sevin score of mertrikis of the
Kingis and pairt of sabilles. Item, for Ixxx mertrikis quhilk wantit to the said goun ;
ilk pece viij S. ; summa . . . xxxij It
Item, for ix elne Bertane clath to be ane sark to the
said goun ; ilk elne ij S. ij d.; summa . xix S. vj d. Item, the xxviij day of Aprile, for ij elne Eislis blak to
be hos to the King ; ilk elne xxvj S. viij d. ; summa
Iiij S. iiij d.
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Item, the Kingis gret chenje wes maid new, and giffin ^d. 1608.
to it to mak the last link of it equivalent to the laif,
tuelf ridaris of gold, .... xiij H. xvj S. Item, for xiij elne Kentdale to be ane cote to the King;
ilk elne iiij S. ; summa , . . . lij §.
Item, for xj elne braid ribanes to the King, xj S.
Item, for iij elne small ribane to ane cote, . . xij d.
Item, the last day of Aprile, in Dunfermlyn, for ane
callit Mure for ane hors quhilk ran up the staris of
the cors, .... xxvj M. xiij S. iiij d.
Item, the ferd day of Maij, for iij elne satin crammesy
to ane doublat to the King ; ilk elne iij 11. ; summa
ix H. Item, for j quartar wellus to the collar and cufBs of it,
xj S. iij d. Item, for vij ^ quartaris satin crammesy to be cerviling
to the Kingis hames ; ilk elne iij H. ; summa
V H. xij S. vj d. Item, the vij day of Maij, for thre elne Melane fustian
to be ane hames jacat to the King ; ilk elne
ij S. viij d.; summa ..... viij S. Item, for ane pund caddes to it, . . iij 3.
Item, for vj quartaris Melan fustian to be harnes brekis
to the King, . . . . iiij S.
Item, for ane elne weUus to be schone, . xlv S.
Item, the viij day of Maij, for xj elne satin to be ane
pointit cote to the King ; ilk elne xxiiij 3.; summa
xiij H. iiij S. Item, for vij elne iij quartaris wellus to be pointis
to the samyn ; ilk elne xlv S., . xvij H. viij S. ix d. Item, for x elne Holland clath to be hede schetis to
the King ; ilk elne v 3. ; summa . . 13.
Item, for xlj elne Bertane clath to be fut schetis ; ilk
elne ij 3.; summa . . . . iiij tL ij 3.
Item, for tua bonetis to the King, tane at Johne Irland,
xxviij 3. Item, for ane bevir hat to the King, . . iij 3.
Item, for iiij hankis gold send to Dunfermlyn to sew
the Kingis sarkis, . . . . xx 3.
Digitized by
22 ACCOUNTS OF THE
A.D. 1608. Item, to Johne Davidson, cordonar, for schone, butis,
and pantonis to the King fra Candilmes to the
first day of Maij, . . v H. xvj S. vj d.
Item, for xvij hankis gold deliverit to the capitane of
Edinburghes wif to mak purses to the King ; ilk
hank v S. ; summa .... iiij H. v S. Item, for vj quartaris quhit dames to be foure stomois
for hors housouris ; ilk elne viij S. ; summa . xlij S. Item, to Pieris payntour for to cut out letteres for
cotis and bardis for hors hosouris, ij % elne wellus ;
the elne xlv S. ; summa . v H. xij S. vj d.
Item, vj^ quartaris clath of gold to the samyn, of
ane steik send hame be Jerome Friscobald. Item, the x day of Maij, j)^ quartar clath of gold
forsaid to ane suord belt and ane scawbert for ane
suord. Item, v)4 quartaris j nail of the samyn clath of gold
to covir the Kingis scheild and scheild ledderis. Item, for vj quartar wellus to the tothir half of the
samyn, . iij H. vij S. vj d.
Item, for xviij unce sewing silk to be frenjeis to the
Kingis bardis ; ilk unce iij S.; summa . . liiij S.
Item, for xxvj hankis gold to the samyn frenjeis ; ilk
hank v S. ; summa . vj H. x S.
Item, for vj hattis to the King of sindry hewis ; ilk pece
vs.; summa ...... xxx S.
Item, for iij double bonetis, rede, blak, and violet, xxxvj S. Item, for ane tepat to the King, deliverit to Johne Forman,
vj S. viij fL Item, for ane bevir hat to the King, . iij 8.
Item, to Thomas Bosuell at divers tymes, five elne quhit
taffetj to draw throw the Kingis hattis; ilk elne
xvj g.; summa . . . . . iiij H.
Item, for xvj elne tafifetj to the courtingis of the Kingis
pailjoun, rede and quhit ; ilk elne xiiij 3.; summa
xj H. iiij 9. Item, for rede ribanes to the samyn, . . . vj 3.
Item, for xvij^ elne taflFetj, rede and quhit, to the
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courtingis and ruf in the chapell of the barres ; ilk a.d. 1608.
elne xiiij S.; summa .... xij K. v S. Item, for x elne gray and broun taffetj to the samyn ;
ilk elne xv S.; summa . . ' vij tL x S.
Item, ix elne of the Kingis auin taffetj quhilk remanit
our Jeir. Item, for braid worsait ribanes to thaim, . . ij S.
Item, for making of the said courting bath for pailjoun
and chapell, ...... xiiij 3.
Item, for iiij elne Jallo taffetj to covir the Kingis
sadilles ; ilk elne xiiij g. ; summa . . Ivj S.
Item, for iiij elne taffetj, rede, quhit, grene, Jallo, deliverit
to the Franch gunnar be Schir Johne Ramsayis com- mand agane the bancat, . . . Ivj S. Item, the xiiij day of Maij, for v elne satin to covir the
Kingis hors half housour of clath of gold ; ilk elne
xxiiij S.; summa . . . . . vj H.
Item, for iiij elne j quartar wellus to be ane half cote
to the King fra the waist doun; ilk elne xlv §.;
summa . . . . ix H. xj S. iij d.
Item, iij elne iij yi quartaris clath of gold of the steik,
[send] hame be Jerome Friscobald. Item, vj quartans of the said claith of gold. Item, for iij % elne cordis silk to it, iiij S. j d.
Item, for ]% unce ane quartar unce ribanes to the
King ; the unce v S. ; summa . viij s. ix d.
Item, for ane elne scarlet to be hos to the King; the elne,
IS. Item, for iij % quartaris weUus to breke the said hos,
xxxix S. iiij d. ob. Item, for iij elne quartaris gray satin to be hos to the
King ; the elne xxx §. ; summa . v H. xij S. vj d.
Item, for x^ elne wellus to be ane pointit cote to the
King; ilk elne xlv §.; summa . xxiij H. xij S. vj d. Item, y]4 elne clath of gold to poynt the samyn of
the said steik. Item, for vij elne satin to be ane cote to the King ; ilk
elne xxiiij 9. ; summa . . viij H. viij S.
Digitized by
24 ACCOUNTS OF THE
A.D. 1608. Item, for v^ elne Jallo carsay to lyne the samyn; ilk
elne iiij S. vj d.; summa . . xxiiij S. ix d.
Item, the v day of Junij, for iij ehie iij quartaris satin
to be ane doublat to the King; ilk elne xxiiij S.;
summa . . iiij U. x S.
Item, for viij >^ elne wellus to be ane cote to the King
half chekkirit with claith of gold; ilk elne xlv S.;
summa ..... xix B. ij 8. vj d. Item, ix quartaris half quartar clath of gold of the said
steik to the chekkeris of it. Item, for viij elne iij quartaris Jallo carsay to lyne it ;
ilk elne iiij 9. vj d.; summa xxxiiij S. x d. ob.
Item, for iij elne j quartar satin crammesy to be ane
doublat to the King ; ilk elne iij H. ; summa
ix B. XV S. Item, j )4 quartar clath of gold to it of the said steik to
chekker it.. Item, the xij day of Junij, for tua bevir hattis to the
King, vj 3.
Item, for tua tepatis to him, .... xxij S. Item, for vij yi elne braid ribanes to the King,
vij S. vj d. Item, the xx day of Junij, for vj elne Inglis grene to be
ane cote to the King ; ilk elne xvj S.; summa
iiij H. xvj 3. Item, the xxj day of Junij, for ij elne Rislis to be hos
to the King, . . . Iiij 3. iiij d.
Item, for vj elne Jallo carsay to lyne ane cote of the
Kingis, half clath gold, half wellus ; ilk elne iiij 3.
vj d. ; summa ..... xxix 3. iij d. Item, the xxvij day of Junij, in Pettinweme, for ane
hors to the King, . . . . iiij ML
Item, the vij day of Julij, for vij elne Paris blak to be
ane goun to the King ; ilk elne iij H. ; summa xxj H. Item, for vj quartaris cammes to turs the samyn to
Strivelin in, ..... . xviij d.
Item, for xj elne satin to be ane cote to the King; ilk
elne xxiiij 3.; summa . . . xiij H. iiij 3.
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Item, the viij day of Julij, for ane maid blak cote inA.D. 1508.
Strivelin, . . . . iij H. xij 8. vj 3.
Item, for vj quartaris fustian to the Kingis maill, iiij S. Item, for x elne welliis to be ane cote to the King ; ilk
elne xlv S.; summa .... xxij H. x S. Memorandum : It wes lynyt with the Kingis leopardis. Item, thaireftir for vj elne Jallo carsay to lyne it ; the
elne iiij S. vj d. ; summa . . xxvij S.
Item, the ix day of Julij, tua elne scarlet to be hos to
the King, . . . . v B.
Item, the x day of Julij, for xj elne satin to be ane
pointit cote to the King ; ilk elne xxiiij S. ; summa
xiij H. iiij S. Item, for iij elne iij quartaris satin to be ane doublat to
the King ; the elne xxiiij S. ; summa iiij H. x S.
Item, for ane quhit cote to the King maid in Strivelin,
xxix S. viij d. Item, the xj day of Julij, for xviij elne wellus to be ane
goun to the King ; ilk elne xlv S. ; summa xl H. x S. Item, the xv day of Julij, for viij elne Franch gray to
be ane gawbert ; ilk elne x §. ; summa iiij H.
Item, for viij elne sad Franch tanne to be ane gawbert ;
ilk elne xiiij S.; summa . . v K. xij S.
Item, for iiij skinnis of blak semys leddir to be* ane
doublat to the King ; ilk pece xij S., ane of thaim to
be ane paitlat ; summa . . xlviij S.
Item, for v quartaris satin to be ane paitlat to the
King, ...... XXX S.
Item, the xv day of Julij for v elne Franch gray to be
ane cote to the King ; ilk elne x S.; summa 1 S.
item, the xviij day of Julij for v elne Franch tanne to
be ane cote to the Bang; ilk elne xiij S. iiij d.;
summa . . . . . iij It. vj S. viij d.
Item, for ane hat to the King, . . . xij S. .
Item, for vj quartaris taffety to ane tepat, . xj §.
Item, to Robert, cultellar, for vij gilt dagaris, tane to
the King at divers tymes, .... vij H. Item, for ane crukit baslar of the Turk fasoun with
hilt, pomelt, and chaip all gilt, . . . iiij H.
Digitized by
26 ACCOUNTS OF THE
A.D. 1608. Item, the xxiiij day of Julij, for iij % steik chamlot to
be ane goun to the King and ane cote ; ilk steik
iiij B.; summa .... xiiij H.
Item, the xxix day of Julij, for iij rede skinnis of leddir
to be ane doublat to the King ; ilk pece xxx S.
Summa totalis, . . j°*v^xxx H. vij S. ix d.
Tenet.
[During this period the King had thirteen gowns — two of Paris black, three of camlet, two of grey satin, one of tan satin, two of velvet, one of French grey, Scots russet, and cloth of gold; twenty-eight coats — five of velvet, four of Scots black, three of French .grey and the same number of black, two of white, two of satin, and single coats of Eissilis black, black kersey, crimson satin, camlet, Scots russet, Kent- dale, English green, French tan and velvet chequered with cloth of gold ; four half or parti-coloured coats ; three " pointed " coats, two being of satin and one of velvet ; a black satin " steikit " coat ; a riding coat of Eissilis black; sixteen doublets — five of satin, four of crimson satin, two of black satin, two of velvety and three others which were probably worn with armour ; thirteen tippets, five being of taffety; a French grey gawbert and another of French tan ; a satin paitlat ; a jacket and breeches of Milan fustian for wearing with armour; a grey cloak; eighteen hats, three being of beaver ; the same number of bonnets, three being in red, black, and violet; eleven pairs of hose, chiefly of Eissilis black ; besides shirts, sheets, etc.]
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Item, giflfen to James Eedheuch, ComptroUar to ourA.D. 1508. Soverane Lord, to the f umessing of the hous sen the last compt, quhilk wes the vj day of September the Jeir of God ane thousand five hundi'eth and sevin Jens, deliverit to him at divers and sindry tymes, 6i8 is comptit with the said ComptroUar,
v^ij^'lxxxj tt. X S. iiij d.
Item, to Schir Duncane Forestar of Garden, Knicht, ComptroUar to the Quene, to the fumessing of hir hous sen ^xxle bipast, as wes comptit with the said Schir Duncane, and deliverit to him at divers tymes,
lâ„¢v^xxiij n. viij 3.
Item, payit to Jerome Friscobald in Flandrez for ane steik clath of gold send hame to the King, contenand xxxij^ elne Flemys ; ilk elne x H. gret; summa^ iij^xxv H. gret ; and for ilk 11. gret giffin Iiij S. iiij d. Scottis; summa . \aij^xvj It. xiij S. iiij d.
Item, payit to the said Jerome for ane steik of claith of gold, contenand xxv elne j quartar Flemys; ilk Flemys elne 1 §. gret ; summa Ixiij It. ij S. vj d. gret ; and giffin for ilk pund gret Iiij S. iiij d.; summa
Plxviij H. vj S. viij d.
Item, payit to the said Jerome, quhilk he laid doun to Lioun herald quhen he passit in Denmark x H. gret ; and for ilk M. gret Iiij S. iiij d.; summa
xxvj K. xiij 3. iiij d.
Item, payit to the said Jerome quhilk he laid doun in Spanje to George Makesonis factouris for ankiris cumin hame iiij° ducaits of wecht ; ilk ducat vj 3. viij d. gret; summa Pxxxiij H. vi 3. viiij d.; and for carying of the lettrez of change for the said ducatis iiij 3. gret ; ilk H. gret maid in Dunde and Sanctan- drois iij H. Scottis, . . . iiij*^ H. xij 3.
Item, payit to Jerome Friscobald for colouris and uncostis of thaim bocht in Flandrez and send hame X H. ix 3. x d. gret ; and for ilk H. gret iij H. Scottis ; summa ..... xxxj 11. ix 3. vj d.
Item, payit to the said Jerome he laid doun for mending
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28 ACCOUNTS OF THE
A.D. 1508. of the arres clathis that wer brynt xiiij H. gret ; ilk
H. gret iij H.; summa . . . xlij H.
Item, payit to the said Jerome for Schir James Catis
expens passand throu Ingland to Flandrez and fra
Flandrez to France for my Lord of Sanctandrois
erandis and remanand in Flandrez on the Kingis . erandis sen the Chekker xxv It. gret ; and for ilk It
gret iij H. ; summa .... Ixxv H
Item, payit to the said Jerome Friscobald for jâ„¢ ducatis
larg in Venys deliverit to my Lord of Sanctandrois ;
for ilk ducat vj s. viij d. gret ; summa iij^xxxii H.
vj S. viij a. gret ; and for ilk H. gret of ij*^ H. iij H.
Scottis, and for the remanent ilk H. gret liij §. iiij d.;
summa in Scottis monee . ix**lv H. xj S. j d. ob. Summa huius folij, ix"*iij°lxxj H. iiij S. iij d. ob.
Tenet A.
Pro Eegina.
A.D. 1507. Item, the xv day of September, for five quartaris wellus
to the Quene ; ilk elne xliiij S.; summa . Iv S.
Item, the xviij day of September, payit to the Quene in
hir pensioun, quhilk restit of terme of Pasch bypast,
iij^ H.,
quhilk wes payit at dyvers tymes. Item, the second day of October, for xxiiij hankis gold
deliverit to the Quene ; ilk hank v S. ; summa vj M. Item, the xx day of October, for ij elne j quartar Eislis
blak to be hos to the Quene ; the elne xxvj S. viij d.;
summa . . . . iij H.
Item, payit to William Welsch, tailjour, for making of
ane goun of tanne wellus to the Quene, quhilk wes
bocht and enterit before the Chekker, . . xx S.
Item, to the said William for making of ane goun to
the Quene of blak wellus enterit sic like, xx 3.
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Item, to him for making of ane kirtill of tamie dames a- o- 1607. enterit sic like before the last Chekker, . ix S.
Item, the xxvj day of October, for xiiij elhe wellus to be ane goun to the Quene ; ilk elne xliiij 9.; summa
XXX It xvj S.
Item, for ane tymyr of ermyngis to eik the purfell of the said goun, . . . . . iiij It
Item, for iij<^ powderingis to it ; ilk ^ iij S.; summa ix S.
Item, for mynever to eik the lynyng of the said goun within, ...... xiiij S.
Item, the viij day of December, to John Davidson, cordonar, for vj pair corkit schone, ij pair double solit schone, j pair pantpnis, j Portugall skin for the Quene, ...... xxxvij S.
Item, the x day of December, giffin for Ij elne small Bertane claith to be schetis for the Queues chamir, of quhilk xxvij elne cost ilk elne ij 8. vj d., and xxiiij elne ilk elne ij S. iiij d.; summa vj H. iij S. vj d.
Item, for thre elne wellus to the Quene for hir hudis ; ilk elne xlv §.; summa . . vj H. xv 3.
Item, for x hankis gold to the Quene, . IS.
Item, the xxij day of December, for v quartans wellus to the Quene; the elne xlv S.; summa . Ivj S. iij d.
Item,pay]t to the Queues Grace, hir pensiounof Michelmes bipast, at divers tymes payit, . v<^ H.
Item, the last day of December, payit to Haiy Roper, of the Queues wardrob, for iij spoungis, iij^ hukis, mending of ane chair, mending of brases for clath sakkis, viij b«^gis poudir violet, wesching of the wardrob stuf, ^ mending of the Queues liar, pak threid and quhit threid of sindry prices, . . Iv S. iiij d.
Item, the first day of Januar, for xij elne satin to the a.d. IW- Quene ; ilk elne xxiiij S. ; summa xiiij H. viij S.
Item, the v day of Januar, to Robert Selkirk, cultellar, for ane pair of gret kerving knyffis to the Quene, iij H.
Item, the ix day of Januar, for iiij/^ elne wellus to the Quene; ilk elne xlv S.; summa x H. ij S. vj d.
• Digitized by
30 , ACCOUNTS OF THE
A.D. 1607-8. Item, the xiiij day of Januar, giffin for ix}^ elne blew
trailje to be ane couch to the Quene; ilk elne iiij S.;
summa ...... xxxviij 3.
Item, for tua stane ane half stane woll to it, xxx S. Item, for making of it, . . . . . . vij 3.
Item, the xxviij day of Januar, for xvj elne tanne satin
to be ane goun to the Quene ; ilk elne xxx 3. ;
summa ...... xxiiij H.
Item, for vj elne taffeti of Florence to lyne the samyn;
ilk elne xv 3.; summa . . . iiij H. x 3.
Item, for vj elne Birge satin, deliverit to the Quene ; ilk
elne x 3. ; summa . . . . . iij 11
Item, for mj/4 elne bukrfim, deliverit sic like; ilk
elne ij 3. ; summa . . . ix 3.
Item, the xv day of Februar, for vij elne satin to be ane
kirtiU to the Quene ; ilk elne xxv 3. ; summa
viij H. XV 3. Item, for vj quartaris blak wellus to the Quene,
iij n. vij 3. vj d. Item, the xx day of Februar, deliverit to Johne Forraan
for the Quene xxx hankis gold ; ilk pece v 3. ; summa
vij H. X 3. Item, for xvj elne wellus to be ane goun to the Quene ;
ilk elne xlv 3. ; sunmia . . . xl H. x 3.
Item, the xxviij day of Februar, for v elne Paris blak to
be ane goun to the Quene ; ilk elne 1 3. ; summa
xij H. X 3. Item, for x tymir vij skinnis of greis to lyne ane goun
to the Quene, ilk tymir contenand xl skinnis; ilk
pece xj d. ; summa . . . xviij H. xiij 3. j d.
Item, thaireftir for vj skinnis of greis to the collar of it
quhen it wes brint at the fire; ilk pece xij d.; summa
vj 3. Item, for mantilling of the said skinnis and lynyng of
the goun, . . . . xx 3.
Item, payit to Lancelot Fere, furrour to the Quene, for
lynyng of ane goun to the Quene with pampilioun of
hir aun stuf, . . . . . x 3.
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Item, the ferd day of March, for vj quartaris wellus to a.d. 1507-8.
the Quene, .... iij H. vij S. vj d. Item, the vj day of March, for vj elne Paris blak to be
ane goun to the Quene ; ilk ehie 1 S. ; summa xv H. Item, for ij elne Jallo taflfeti to the Quene ; ilk elne
xvj S.; summa .... xxxij S.
Item, the x day of March for xj elne fine tanne chamlot
to the Quene ; ilk elne x S. ; summa . v H. x S. Item, for v quartaris wellus to hir ; the elne xlv S. ;
summa . . . . . . Ivj S. iij d.
Item, for iij J^ elne Rislis broun to the Quene deliverit
to Hary Roper; ilk elne xxvj S. viij d.; summa
iiij 11. xiij g. iiij d. Item, the xiiij day of March, for xiiij elne wellus to be
ane goun to the Quene ; ilk elne xlv S. ; summa
xxxj 11. X 3. Item, the said goun purffellit with ermyngis. Item, for xij J^ elne satin to be ane goun to the Quene ;
ilk elne xxviij S. ; summa . . xvij H. x S.
Item, for vj Y^ quartaris scarlet to covir ane chair of
stait for the Quene ; the elne 1 S.; summa iiij B. xv d. Item, for xij unce sowing silk to be frenjeis to it ; ilk
unce iij S. ; summa .... xxxvj S.
Item, for tua unce blak ribainis to it, . . x S.
Item, for half an unce rede ribennis and half ane xmce
blak to the samyn, . . . . v S.
Item, for thre basan skinnis to it, . vj S.
Item, for making of the frenjeis to it, . ij S.
Item, for covering of the said chair, . . xl S.
Item, the x day of Aprile, deliverit to the Quene, vj elne a.d. 1508.
of fyne clath of gold of the steik of quhilk the
Kingis goun wes maid, send hame be Jerome Frisco- bald. Item, the secund day of Maij, for xx elne gray satin to
the Quene, bocht at James Bassindane; ilk elne
XXX §.; summa ..... xxx H. Item, the x day of Maij, for ij^ elne wellus to the
Quene ; the elne xlv S.; summa . v H. xij S. vj d.
Digitized by
32 ACCOUNTS OF THE
A.D. 1508. Item, for vj quartans flatin crammesy to hir ; the elne iij H.; sumina . . . . . iiij H. x S.
Item, for iiij elne taffeti quhit to hir; ilk elne xyj S.; summa . . . . . iij B. iiij S.
Item, for ix quartaris gray satin to the Quene, deliverit to hir at divers tymes ; the elne xxxij S. ; sunmia
iij H. xij 8.
Item, for v quartaris wellus to mend the Quenis sadilles,
Ivj S. iij d.
Item, to the Quene, hir pensioun of the Pasch terme bipast, deliverit at divers tymes sen ^ule bipast, v*^ H.
Item, the viij day of Julij, for v quartaris wellus to the Quene, . . . . . . Ivj S. iij d.
Item, payit to Hary Koper of the Quenis wardrob, for mending of ane f ut of the Quenis chair of stait, vij 9.
Item, for iiij® hukis xiij 9. iiij dL, four spowingis iiij S. viij d., iij elne blak gray iij 3. vj d., vj bs^gis powder violet iiij 3.; summa . . . xxviij 3. vj d.
Item, the viij day of Julij, to the said Hary Eoper for wesching of the Quenis wardrob stuf this half Jeir bipast, . .' . . xxvj 3.
Item, to him for quhit threid, and pak threid iij 3. iiij d.
Item, for xxiiij fawdom small cord, . . . iiij 3.
Item, payit to Johne Davidson, cordonair, for viij pair corkit schone to the Quene sen ^^le bipast ; ilk pair iij 3.; summa ..... xxiiij 3.
Item, for bukkilles to the said schone, . ij 3. vj d.
Item, payit to Lancelot Ferrye, furrour to the Quene, for ane tymir of ermyngis quhilk ekit the purphell of the Quenis goun, and for the fentis and cuffis of the goun, . . . . iiij M.
Item, for iij^ powderingis to the samyn; ilk ^ iij 3.; summa . . . . . . ix 3.
Summa totalis, j"' vij^lxxxxj H. vj d. oh.
Tenet A.
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LORD HIGH TEEASURER. 33
Pbo Principe.
Item, the xx day of October, for xij elne Holland clath a.d. 1507.
for the Prince ; ilk elne vj S.; summa . iij H. xij S. Item, for iij elne small Bertane clath for the Prince ;
ilk elne ij S. iiij d. ; summa . . • ^ij 3.
Item, for ane unce quhit silk to the Princis clathis,
iij 9. Item, for half ane pund small Birge threid to the samyn,
ij S. Item, for worsait to be hos to the Prince, . . iiij S.
Item, the thrid day of November, for half ane dne
half ane quartar scarlet to be ane litill cote to the
Prince, ...... xxxj 3. iij d.
Item, for v quartaris dames to be ane cusching to the
Prince ; ilk elne xxiiij §. ; summa . . xxx S.
Item, for fedderis to stuff it, . . . . v S.
Item, x^ day of November, for vj unce worsait to the
Princis hos, ..... xviij d.
Item, for iij y^ , elne wellus to be ane cote to the Prince ;
ilk elne xliiij S. ; summa . . . vij H. xiiij S.
Item, the ix day of December, for ane pair of kerving
knyffis for the Prince, . . . . iij B.
Item, the xvij day of Januar, for sex elne small Bertane a.d. 1507-8.
clath for the Prince ; ilk elne ij S. vj d. ; summa
XV 3. Item, for xxij elne Bertane clath to be schetis to the
rokkaris ; ilk elne ij 3. ; summa . . xliiij 3.
Item, the xiij day of. Februar, for half ane elne scarlet
to be ane litill cote for the Prince, . . xxv 3.
Item, for iij }4 quartaris scarlet to the Prince hurle stule,
xliij 3. ix d.
Item, for ane unce grene ribanes to it, . . v 3.
Item, for covering of it, . ... . xiiij 3.
Item, for paynting of the rollis of it, . . iiij 3.
Summa huius folij, . . . xxvij H. ij d.
Tenet.
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34 ACCOUNTS OF THE
Elemosina.
A.D. 1607. Item, the ix day of September, to the Kingis oflferand
in Lestalrig, xiiij 9.
[And thirty-two similar entries.] Item, the x day of September, to the Kingis offerand in the Bude Chapell, betuix Lestalrig and Leith, xiiij 9. Item, the xij day of September, to the Kingis offerand in Halyrudhous, ..... xiiij 9. [And two similar entries.] Item, to Schir Andro Makbrek to the pur foUds begin- nand this day for viij owkis to cum, . xxiiij It [And six similar payments.] Mem* : Sa payit to Sonday the vij day of November. Item, the xiiij day of September, the Bude day, to the
Kingis offerand, xiiij 9.
[And twenty-five similar entries.] Item, to the freris of Edinburgh, . . . xiiij 9.
[And four similar entries.] Item, to the freris of the Ferree, . . . xiiij 9.
[And five similar entries.]
Item, payit to Matho Auchlek for ane relique quhilk
wes maid to Sanct Monanes, and syne wes offerit be
the King to Sanct Niniane, quhilk weyit vj unce;
ilk unce xv 9. ; summa . . . iiij H x 9.
Item, for gilting of the samyn, . . xlvj 9. yj d.
Item, to the said Matho for making of tua candilstekis
of silvir to the chapell, weyand IxiiijJ^ unce; for
ilk unce ij 9.; summa . . . vj H xiij 9.
Item, the xix day of September, to the freris of Lufnois,
xiiij 9. [And three similar entries.] Item, the xxj day of September, to Schir Andro Makbrek to dispone, . . . . . . iij It.
[And fifty-six similar entries of sums from j to vH.]
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Item, to the preiflt of Sanct Ninianes chapell ofA.D. 1607.
Linlithqw, xiiij S.
Item, to the frens of Linlithqw, • . . xiiij 9.
[And five similar entries.] Item, the xxiiij day of September, to the Kingis offerand in the chapell of Bannokbum, . . . xiiij 9.
Item, to the freria of Strivelin, . . . xiiij 9.
[And eight similar entries.]
Item, the xxvij day of September, to the freria of
Strivelin that brocht peris and plowmis, . xiiij 9.
Item, to the Kingis offerand in Sanct Ninianes chapell
of Strivelin, ...... xiiij 9.
[And two similar entries.] Item, to the preistis of Linlithqw, . . . xlij 9.
[And seventeen similar entries.]
October.
Item, the first day of October, to the Kingis offerand
at the Olyewell, xiiij 9.
[And two similar entries.] Item, to the Kingis offerand at the Holy Cros of Peblis,
xiiij 9. Item, to the preistis thair, . . . xl 9.
Item, the xvij day of October, to Schir Andro Makbrek
to dispone at the Quhit Kirk, . . • iij U-
Item, to the Kingis offerandis on the bred and to the
altair thare, ..... xxviij 9.
Item, the xviij day of October, to Maister William
Prestoim to the Princis almous for vij owkis to cum ;
ilk owk X 9. ; summa . . . iij It. x 9.
[And two similar entries.] And sa payit to Sonday the fift day of December. Item, the xx day of October, in Dunbar, to Schir Andro
Makbrek to dispone, . . . . . iij U.
Item, to the preistis of Cranschawis, . . xx 9.
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36 ACCOUNTS OF THE
A.D. 1607. Item, the xxi] day of October, to the freris of Tulylum,
xiiij S.
.[And. two similar entries.]
Item, the xxiij day of October, to the Kingis offerand
to Sanct Crispine and Crispinianes lycht, . xiiij S.
Item, the xxiiij day of October, to the Gray Freris of
Striyeling, ..... xxviij 9.
Item, to the Kingis offerand to ane preistis first mes in
the Eude Kirk of StriveUn, . . xxviij 9.
Item, the last day of October, to the Kingis offerand at
Maister Eobert Hammiltonis first mes, . Ivj S.
November.
Item, the first day of November, to the Kingis offer- and on the bred, ..... xiiij S.
Item, to the Kingis offerand to ane preistis first mes in Sanct Gelis Kirk, .... xiiij 9.
Item, to the freris of Inverkethin, . . . xiiij 9. £And four similar entries.]
Item, the secund day of November, Commemoratio Animarum, to Schir Andro Makbrek to dispone, iij H.
Item, the vj day of November, in Linlithqw, to Schir Andro Makbrek to dispone, . . . iij H.
Item, the vij day of November, in Strivelin, to ane Irland frere, ...... xiiij 9.
Item, the xij day of November, for xvj elne iij quartaris fustian to lyne the antependis abone and undir the Hie Altar, maid of the Kingis clath of gold ; ilk elne ij 9. ij d.; summa . . . xxxvj 9. iij d. ob.
Item, the xiij day of November, to Schir Andro M^brek in Linlithqw, to dispone, . . . . xl 9.
Item, to the preist of the toun end of Linlithqw,
xiiij 9.
Item, the xvj day of November, in Hadingtoun, to Schir Andro to dispone, . . . . . xl 9.
Item, the xxj day of November, to the Kingis offerand in Striveling, xiiij 9.
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LOED HIGH TREASUKER. 37
Item, to the preist of Sanct Ninianes chapell to theke it, ^d. IW.
xiiij S. Item, to the Kingis ofiferand to Sanct Androia lycht,
xiiij S.
Decembeb.
Item, the first day of December, to the Kingis ofiferand to Sanct Eloyis lycht, .... x[iiij]
Item, to the Kingis offerand to Sanct Barbarais lycht,
xiiij S.
Item, the xv day of December to the preistis in Strive-
lin, . . . . . . iij H.
[And another similar entry.]
Item, the xvj day of December, in linlithqw, to Schir
Andro Makbrek to dispone, . . xl S.
Item, the xxj day of December, to the Kingis ofiferand
in Strivelin, ..... xiiij S.
Item, the xxv day of December, ^xile day, to the Kingis ofiferand at the first mes, .... xiiij 3.
Item, to the Kingis ofiferand at the Hie Mes, xlij S.
Item, to the Irland freris, .... xiiij S.
[And another similar entry.]
Januab.
Item, the vj day of Januar, to ane frere, . . xiiij §. a.d. 1507-8.
Item, the x day of Januar, in Lin[li]thqw, to Schir Andro
Makbrek to dispone in Linlithqw, . . xlij S.
Item, the xxviij day of Januar, in Strivelin, to Schir
Andro Makbrek to dispone, . . v H.
Item, the xxix day of Januar, to Schir Andro Makbrek to
ger do dirige and saule mes for the Beschop of
Gallaway, . . . . . . v H.
Item, to the Augustin frer, v H.
Item, in Linlithqw, to Schir Andro Makbrek to dispone,
xlS.
Digitized by
38 ACCOUNTS OF THE
A.D. 1607-8. Item, the penult day of Januar, to the Kingis oflferand at the Beschop of Gallawayis saule mes, . xiiij 3.
Item, for half ane elne satin crammesy to eik ane fronteU for ane altar, .... xxx S.
Item, for vij unce silk to be frenjeis to it, . xxj S.
Item, for xiiij hankis gold to the said f renjeis ; ilk hank V S.; summa iij It x S.
Item, for making of the said frenjeis, iij S.
Item, for half ane elne fustian to lyne the eikis of the said f rontell, xiiij d.
Item, payit to Thomas Edjair for eking of the said frontell and for making of the antependis of clath of gold before writin, . . x S.
Fbbruar.
Item, the first day of Februar, to the Kingis offerand to
Sanct Brides lycht, ..... xiiij S. Item, the secund day of Februar, Candilmes day, to the
Kingis offerand in his candill and at the mes v Franch
crounis ; summa . . . iij It x S.
Item, to the Kingis offerand to Sanct Blais lycht, xiiij S. Item, the ix day of Februar, to the Kingis ofiferand at
the Queue of Inglandis saule mes, . xiiij 3.
Item, to the Kingis offerand in Sanct Anthones chapeU
in the Crag, . . . Ix 3.
[And three similar entries.] Item, the xiij day of Februar, to the Kingis offerand in
Sanct Leonardis chapeU, .... xiiij 3. Item, the xvj day of Februar, payit to Matho Auchlek
for making of the Cors of Peblis, weyand vij ^ unce,
iij H. X 3. Item, for ane fut of sLlvir to the said Cors of Peblis,
weyand iiij unce j quartar; ilk unce maid xiij 3.;
summa Iv 3. iij d.
Item, to the Provest of Methuen to gif to the freris of
Sanct Johnstoim, . . . iij U.
Item, the xxv day of Februar, to the Kingis offerand
to Sanct Felanis lycht at Down, in Menteth, xiiij 3.
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March.
Item, the viij day of March, to the Kingis offerand to a.d. 1507-8.
Sanct Dudiois Ijcht, .... xiiij S.
Item, in linlithqw, to Schir Andro Makbrek to dispone,
xlS. Item, to the Kingis offerand in Sanct Nicholas chapeU,
beside Leith, ix S.
[And four similar entries.] Item, the xxiij day of March, in Quhithirn, to the
Kingis offerand in the utir kirk, xy 9. vj d.
Item, to