Tue CASTLE OF DUMFRIES. a 
and 8 casks of wine, 30 fat hogs, 6 quarters of dried oats, 9500 
herrings, 18 quarters of oats, and 4 quarters and a half bushel of 
salt.’ 
“To Sir James de Dalilegh, clerk, for divers outlays and ex- 
penses incurred by the same about the victuals bought by himself 
and also the victuals sent to the parts of Carlisle by the care of 
divers persons, namely, for the carriage of divers victuals from 
the salt pits of Skimburness to Carlisle, and the Abbey of Holm, 
by water in vessels, and by land by horses and wagons, from the 
same places to Lochmaben and Dumfries, for the munition of the 
castles there, for the portage, loading, and discharge of the same 
vicutals through divers places, for the cleaning and repairing of 
the houses in which the same victuals were deposited, for the pay 
of coopers binding casks of flour and wine, the wages of clerks 
and others receiving the same victuals, guarding, delivering, 
throwing, turning, and measuring them, under the same Sir James, 
between the 5th day of June and the 19th day of November in the 
present year ending, together with the wages of the same Sir 
James, within the said time, and for hemp, tanned hides, ropes, 
clamps, nails, and other binders, bought by the same for the 
aforesaid castles, within the same time, £175 5s 24d.”’ 
A RE-SALE. 
When a change of constables took place at the Castle there 
was a stock-taking and accounting, between the out-going and in- 
coming officers, and this principle was also carried into larger 
transactions, as in the case of the stores at Carlisle. | Master 
Richard de Abingdon having been succeeded there by Sir James 
de Dalilegh as Receiver and Distributor of the King’s victuals, the 
question seems to have arisen how best to arrange the transfer. 
To take stock and make up a valuation would be laborious and 
tedious, and as some of the stores had been long kept their value 
could not be estimated with certainty. While not stated in so 
many words, it is to be inferred from what took place that the 
conclusion reached was to carry out a process similar to that now 
known as a re-sale, by which to dispose of the entire stock, so as 
the in-coming Receiver should be able to commence his accounts 
on a clean slate. The sale took place, the castles and the army 
in the vicinity were the chief purchasers, and the sum realised 
amounted to £800 of the money of the day. 921 quarters 7 
