Accounts of the lord high treasurer of Scotland, Bind 3

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H.M. General register house, 1901
 

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Side lviii - ... we labour at it with great zeal. . Since there is a greater abundance of building material in your realm, we have sent our men thither to fetch beams and oakwood from a friendly nation, and to bring shipwrights to us. The dishonesty of certain of your people disturbed all our arrangements and prevented our purchases ; they attempted to confiscate what was already prepared, on the plea that it was against the law, until your Majesty, having been...
Side i - Published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of HM Treasury under the direction of the Master of the Rolls.
Side 437 - He spurred his courser on, Without stop or stay, down the rocky way, That leads to Brotherstone. He went not with the bold Buccleuch, His banner broad to rear ; He went not 'gainst the English yew, To lift the Scottish spear. Yet his...
Side v - Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, FSA, Scot, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Side ciii - No evidence of this instrument is to be traced in the treasurer's accounts ; and yet, such is the minuteness of their information, that we might have expected it to be noticed. It appears, however, that on the 3rd of March, 1496, the king employed a goldsmith to make a case of gold, which was to be worn about his halse, or neck, and that three days after this the same case was made larger or heavier than it had been originally. It has been conjectured that the wearing this case of gold may have been...
Side li - Esperance bearing leaves of Pleasure, the flower of Nobleness and the fruit of Honour. The accounts of the Lord High Treasurer preserve full details regarding the purchase and preparation of dresses, armour, banners, pavilions, the triumphal chair for the Black Lady, harts...
Side ciii - ... against his father. No evidence of the instrument is to be traced in the treasurer's accounts, and yet such is the minuteness of their information, that we might have expected it to be noticed. It appears, however, that on the 3d of March, 1496, the king employed a goldsmith to make a case of gold, which was to be worn about his halse, or neck, and that three days after this the same case was made larger or heavier than it had been originally. It has been conjectured that the wearing this case...
Side xxix - ... to send to France for wyne, and to furneiss the schip biggit in Dunbcrtane to Burdeauss, jcvj lib. xiij sh. iv d.
Side xxxix - Edinburgh to him and thair to exerceis 5 iusting. them selffis for his plesour as they war best accustomit, sum to rin witht speir, sum to fight witht the battell axe and harnis, sum to feight witht the tuo handit suord, sum to schut the hand bow, corsebow and collvering. And everie man as he faught best gat his 10 wapouns deliuerit to him be the king in this maner ; he that ran the speir best, he gat ane speir witht...
Side 358 - Item,* giffin to divers menstrales, schawmeris, trumpetis, taubronaris, fithelaris, lutaris, harparis, clarscharis, piparis, extending to Ixix persons, . . . xlj ti.

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