76 Tue Castle oF DumFrriEgs. 
The accounts for the wages of the workers employed in 
strengthening the castle are too lengthy to be here presented in 
whole, but a few items, we think, may prove acceptable as 
indications of their character. We will first take Godfrey de 
Wyndsore’s accounts:—“ To Godfrey de Wyndsore, Clerk, 
assigned for paying the wages of the carpenters, masons, smiths, 
and other workmen retained to the king’s wages for the making 
and working of the peel of Dumfries, for his own wages and those 
of 3 foremen and 35 other carpenters and 4 pages, from the 5th 
day of September until the 11th day of the same month, both 
being reckoned, for 7 days, to the aforesaid Godfrey and the 
foremen to each 6d a day, to each carpenter 4d a day, and to each 
page 2d a day, £5 Os 4d. To the same for the wages of one 
foreman carpenter and of 14 other carpenters, from the 6th day 
of September until the 11th day of the same month, both being 
reckoned, for 6 days, to each foreman and carpenter as before, 
£111s0d. To the same for the wages of one foreman carpenter 
and 18 other carpenters for 5 days, and two carpenters for 3 
days, and 2 sawyers, to each 4d a day for 2 days, the said 11th 
day of September being reckoned the last, £1 15s 10d. To the 
same for his own wages, those of the foremen Ade de Glasham, 
and the foremen his comrades and of 74 other carpenters, from 
the 12th day of September until the 18th day of the same month, 
both being reckoned, for 7 days, £9 13s 8d. To the same for 
the wages of four pages waiting on the same carpenters for the 
same time, 4s 8d. To the same for the wages of 5 carpenters 
for 2 days, the 17th September being reckoned as the first, 3s 4d. 
To the same for the wages of a lad of Friar Robert de Ulm, 
carpenter, receiving 4d a day, for the aforesaid 7 days, 2s 4d. 
Total, £18 lls 2d.”’ 
Passing to the smith’s work, the account proceeds:—“ To 
the same for the wages of Thomas de Turney, smith, receiving 
6d a day, and of 7 smiths his comrades 2 of whom received each 
5d a day, and 5 each 4d a day, being retained to the king’s wages 
for the making of the aforesaid peel, from the 18th day of 
October until the 20th day of November, both being reckoned, 
for 34 days, £5 2s Od. 
“To the same Godfrey for 4100 nails of various forms, and 
62 bolts, bought by the same both at Carlisle and la Rose, at 
various prices, for the operations of the same smiths in turn, 
