56 Tue CASTLE OF DUMFRIES. 
and order you in the name of our said lord and king by the 
present letter to pay their expenses who have hitherto had the 
custody of the said castles from the day of their entrance until 
the day when the said Sir Walter received the custody above said, 
according to the arranagement of our lord the King before 
named. But from the day when the said Sir Walter undertook 
the aforesaid custody, pay to the same 40 marks sterling for the 
payment of his expenses, according to the arrangement of the 
same our Lord the King. Receiving from the same their letters 
of receipt for the money paid to them, and we shall make it to be 
fully allocated to you in your accounts. In evidence of which 
thing (because the common seal was shut at the time of making 
the present letter) we have each of us placed to the present our 
own seals, one after the other. Given at Stirling on Thursday 
next after the feast of St. Mathias the apostle, in the year of our 
Lord 1291.” 
Sir Walter’s tenure of office was short. On 28th February, 
1292, Robert Heron acknowledged having received from the 
chamberlain 24 shillings and 5 pence in repayment of an advance 
he had made to Sir Walter for the custody of the Castles. On 
28th of the same month Sir Walter acknowledged the receipt of 
£10 sterling in part payment of his wages granted to him for the 
custody of the Castles of Dumfries, Wigton, and Kirkcudbright, 
beginning to reckon of the first quarter on the 4th day of March, 
1292. On 14th May, 1292, Robert Heron, rector of the church 
of Forde, received from Sir Alexander de Balliol, Chamberlain 
of Scotland, 24 shillings and 7 pence in payment of another 
advance to Sir Walter. And Sir Walter on the 28th June, 
1292, acknowledged having received from the Chamberlain 5 
marks sterling for the arrears of his wages granted to him by the 
King for the custody of the said Castles. 
The last of the Wardens at this period, whose name has come 
down, is Sir Richard Siward, a mandate for the payment of whose 
wages for the custody of the Castles of Galloway and Nithsdale 
was given by the guardians of Scotland on the 24th March, 1292. 
Sir Richard acknowledged the receipt on April 26th of 40 
marks sterling from the chamberlain of Scotland for 40 days, 
granted to him for the custody of the said Castles by the lord 
King of England, beginning to reckon the said 40 days from the 
