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Publications of the Scottish History Society Volume Xliv Miscellany ScsrsHS.4.4 . Oca PUBLICATIONS OF THE SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME XLIV MISCELLANY (Second Volume) February 1904 MISCELLANY OF Clje Scotttsi) #tstorp g>octetp {Second Volume) THE SCOTTISH KING’S HOUSEHOLD, I4th Cent. THE SCOTTISH NATION IN ORLEANS UNIVERSITY, 1336-153S THE FRENCH GARRISON AT DUNBAR, 1553 DE ANTIQUITATE RELIGIONIS APUD SCOTOS, 1594 APOLOGY FOR WM. MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON, 1610 LETTERS OF BISHOP GEORGE GRAEME, 1602-38 A SCOTTISH JOURNIE, 1641 DUKE OF HAMILTON’S EXPEDITION TO ENGLAND, 1648 BURNET-LEIGHTON PAPERS, 1648-168- PAPERS OF ROBT. ERSKINE, Physician to the Czar, 1677-1720 WILL OF THE DUCHESS OF ALBANY, 1789 EDINBURGH Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society 1904- CONTENTS I. THE SCOTTISH KING’S HOUSEHOLD AND OTHER FRAGMENTS from a 14th Century Manu- script, Edited by Mary Bateson Introduction, ..... 3 The Scottish King’s Household, . 31 Translation, ... 37 II. THE SCOTTISH NATION IN THE UNIVER- SITY OF ORLEANS, 1336-1538, Edited by John Kirkpatrick, LL.D. Introduction, . .47 Extracts from the Book of the Scottish Nation, 70 Translation, . .... 89 List of Procurators of the Scottish Nation, . 101 III. MUSTER-ROLL OF THE FRENCH GARRISON AT DUNBAR, 1553, Edited by Robert S. Rait Introduction, . .105 Muster-Roll, ..... 107 Translation, . .113 IV. THE ANTIQUITY OF THE CHRISTIAN RE- LIGION AMONG THE SCOTS, 1594, Translated and Edited by Henry D. G. Law Introduction, . .117 The Antiquity of the Christian Religion among the Scots, from the original Latin of George Thomson, Scot, 1594, . .121 vi CONTENTS V. THE APOLOGY FOR WILLIAM MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON, 1610, Edited by Andrew Lang Introduction, . .135 The Apologie, . 153 VI. SOME LETTERS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF GEORGE GRAEME, Bishop of Dunblane and of Orkney, 1602-1638, Edited by L. G. Gr/eme Introduction, ..... 231 Letters, etc., ..... 244 VII. A SCOTTISH JOURNIE, being an Account in Verse of a Tour from Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1641, by P. J., Edited by C. H. Firth, M.A., Hon. LL.D. Introduction, . .271 A Scottish Journie, .... 274 VIII. NARRATIVES ILLUSTRATING THE DUKE OF HAMILTON’S EXPEDITION TO ENG- LAND in 1648, Edited by C. H. Firth, M.A., Hon. LL.D. Introduction, . .291 i. Mr. Thomas Reade’s Relation, . 293 ii. Sir Philip Musgrave’s Relation, . 302 IX. CERTAIN PAPERS OF ROBERT BURNET, afterwards Lord Crimond, GILBERT BURNET, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury, and ROBERT LEIGHTON, sometime Archbishop of Glasgow, Edited by H. C. Foxcroft Introduction, . .315 Letters, etc., ..... 335 CONTENTS vii X. LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ROBERT ERSKINE, Physician to Peter the Great, 1677-1720, Edited by the Rev. Robert Paul Introduction, ..... 373 Letters, etc., ..... 392 XL THE WILL OF CHARLOTTE STUART, DUCHESS OF ALBANY, 1789, Edited by A. Francis Steuart Introduction, . .433 The Will, ..... 440 INDEX, ....... 459 ILLUSTRATIONS i. Salle des Theses, old University of Orleans, at page 47 ii. The Device and Order of the Scottish Nation in the University of Orleans,. „ 60 in. Photographic reproduction of a page of the Orleans Manuscript, .... „ 73 iv. Do. do., „ 87 v. Old University Buildings of Orleans, . „ 102 SCOTTISH KING’S HOUSEHOLD AND OTHER FRAGMENTS FROM A FOURTEENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT IN THE LIBRARY OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. Edited by MARY BATESON Associate and Lecturer of Newnham College, Cambridge. INTRODUCTION1 In a manuscript at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,2 there lies buried a remarkable account of the household of the Scottish kings and the duties of its officers, which would certainly have found a place in the great edition of the Scots Acts of Parliament had it been known to the learned editors. It throws a welcome light on some of the obscurest places in Scottish history. All too little is known of the household of the English Plantagenets, but that there is material for more knowledge is not doubted. For Scotland it seemed likely that the whole of the material was known, and that the blank places must be left blank, or filled up only with the aid of later references or foreign analogies. The so-called laws of Malcolm Mackenneth could give the names of a number of officers of the royal household and their fees; the accounts of the Lord High Treasurer enabled the learned editor to build up a description of the Court of James iv.; the mag- nificent series of Exchequer Rolls tells so much of the Chamberlain’s department that the Corpus Christi manuscript has nothing there to add; Dr. George Neilson, in his Trial by Combat, ran the Constable to earth. But there the chase seemed ended. Now, from the first half of the fourteenth 1 This paper, so far as it concerns the King’s Household, appeared in slightly different form in the Juridical Review, Dec. 1901, March 1902, and is reprinted by kind permission of the editor and publishers. Thevother fragments are printed2 for the first time. * No. 37. I would here acknowledge the kind permission of the Master and Fellows of the College which enables me to print a portion of the manuscript; and I would thank especially the Librarian, Mr. C. W. Moule, for his ever ready assistance. 4 THE SCOTTISH KING’S HOUSEHOLD century appears a collector,1 copying from the roll of one who knew all that we would fain know. Alas! he tells only a fraction of the tale he could have unfolded ‘of the laws and usages of Scotland, which are too long to be written in this roll.’ What the Corpus Christi manuscript gives us is a curious congeries of facts relating to the Scottish Chancery and Exchequer; the duties of the Chamberlain, Steward, Constable, and Marshal; the ordering of the Court of the Verge; the ceremonies of trial by battle between mounted knights; the duties of the King’s footguards; the ordering of meals in the King’s hall; the responsibilities of the Almoner and of the other officers engaged in victualling the King’s household ; last, and not least, it tells of the. Justices and Sheriffs. When and under what circumstances was the original roll written, and were its directions sanctioned by authority? Some features in the record seem to favour the suggestion that it is a scheme drawn up by one of the Scottish Commissioners attending the London Assembly of September, 1305, which issued Edwrard i.’s famous ordinance for the settlement of Scotland. The Commissioners were sworn2 to give the best advice they could, to reveal any hindrances to good govern- ment of which they knew, and the means by which these might be overcome, with any usages that it might be well to amend. The choice of a Knight Templar as Almoner shows that the document cannot well be later than 1309, when the destruction of the Order began.3 And, on the other hand, a mention of the ‘parliament’ makes it unlikely that the document can be earlier than 1286.4 In 1305 Scottish 1 The value of the Corpus Christi ms. was appreciated by the great antiquary Madox, who copied out the document here printed into one of his note-books, now at the British Museum. So far as I can discover, he made no use of his copy2 in any of his printed works. 3 Bain, Cal. Scotch Documents, No. 1692. On 6th October 1309, Edward II. ordered John de Segrave, guardian of Scotland, to arrest all the Templars still at large in Scotland.—Fcedera, ii. 94. * Rail, ‘Scottish Parliament.’—Eng. Hist. Rev., xv. 217. INTRODUCTION 5 advice was asked; at no other time is it so likely to have been offered.1 On the other hand, it may be urged that we have no evidence that Edward i. proposed to keep up the organisa- tion of a separate royal household for Scotland,2 and it is by no means impossible that this draft resulted from the work of Alexander m. or of John Balliol. That the writer was himself a member of the late Scottish King’s household might be concluded from the prominence he gives to questions touching its minutest detail. But it must be had in mind that to statesmen of the thirteenth and four- teenth centuries the King’s household government and his government of the state were inseparably united. His Cham- berlain was still his Treasurer; purveyance to fill his royal larder was in a sense national taxation ; to control waste in the kitchen was, in fact, to control the Exchequer.3 Possibly our latter-day interest in the private life of kings is a degene- rate form of that same instinct which led our forefathers to put a check on ‘ prise ’ and ‘ caption.’ To answer those other questions which naturally arise,— how far were the writer’s reforms accepted, how far does he propose change or describe what he actually knows, and upon what points are his statements specially valuable ?—it will be well to take the record paragraph by paragraph.4 A proposal to summon an assembly to consider the govern- ment of the realm according to its ‘laws and usages’ was 1 It is true that the reformer’s ‘ doit estre ’ and the legislator’s ‘ soil ’ and ‘ fet asavoir ’ are both used, but the first occurs far more frequently, and in a draft2 scheme a mistake of that kind might easily be made. See below, p. 17, note 4, however, on the existence of an Almoner for the Scottish3 household in 1304. For evidence that many documents dealing with the Scottish King’s house- hold were in existence by 1305, one has only to look at the list of documents carried4 away from Edinburgh by Edward I. These have been numbered for the sake of clearness.
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