An introduction to Mr. James Anderson's Diplomata Scotiæ. To which is [sic] added notes, taken from various authors, and original manuscripts / By Thomas Ruddiman.

Thomas Ruddiman

Date:: 1773

Credit: An introduction to Mr. James Anderson's Diplomata Scotiæ. To which is [sic] added notes, taken from various authors, and original manuscripts / By Thomas Ruddiman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ 230 ] er than thefe; befides, it appears by that bull, the fupport of thefe judges, to the extent of L.200 yearly, out of the vacant benefices, over and above other donations to be made by him to them. | 7 (4) The Scots pint contains, almoft, four Eng- ih pints, and contains fomewhat lef$ than the Roman /extarius. . (&) The black cock feems to be a bird peculiar to Scotland. See Gefiner’s Hilt. of Animals, tom. II. p. 460. 3 As to the agreement for king William’s ranfom. See Rymer’s Federa, tom. I. P+ 39- Notes on the Text, LXIII. See Fordun, fol. 281. and vol. IV. Hearn’s Ed. _ ditto, p. 1319. and appendix, p. 1562. Rymer, J. p. 139. . The Englifh hiftorians have made mention of England; the Continuator of Croyland, p. 518. ad annum 1 434, thus fays, * The autumn was too “rainy, from whence fo great a famine arofe ‘¢ in England, and continued for almoft two “‘ years; fo that, in many places of the king “* dom, the meafure or bufhel of corn was fold “* for forty pence.” Fabian, in his Chronicle, fol. 190, ad annum 1439, writes, That this year there was fuch a {carcity of corn, that, at Lon- don, the bufhel was fold for three fhillings and four pence ; but, as four buthels, Englith, make nearly one boll Scots, at this rate, a meafure, e- thefe times, for one merk Englifh, that is, of their -, = i el Naas re ee » RF > ‘ Se cre in re tg$