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together with baskets and cords for packing the same nails, from 
the aforesaid place to Dumfries, £4 18s 8d.’’ 
The mason’s account runs:—“ To Master Edward de 
Appleby, mason, for his own wages and those of 11 masons, 
his comrades, retained to the king’s wages for repairing the houses 
within the king’s castle of Dumfries, in the sojourn of the king at 
that place about the peel of the same, in the months of October 
and November, for 2 days, the 16th day of October being the 
last, to the aforesaid Master Edward 6d a day, and to each of 
the other masons 4d a day, 8s 4d. To the same for his own 
wages and those of 14 masons his comrades, from the 17th day of 
October until the 30th day of the same month, both being 
reckoned, for 14 days, to each as before per day, £312s4d. To 
the same for the wages of one page of the same for 16 days 
between the 15th day of October and the said 30th day of the 
same month, both being reckoned, 2d a day, 2s 8d. ‘To the 
same for his own wages and those of 15 masons, his comrades, 
for 3 days, the last day of October being reckoned as the first, 
16s 6d. To the wages of one page for the same three days, 6d.”’ 
We nowcome to Henry de Brandeston’s account for the 
wages of ditchers, but one to the sheriff of Northumberland may 
first be presented. “To Sir Roger Maynot, Sheriff of Northum- 
berland, for money paid by himself for iron and wood bought by 
the king’s command under his private seal, for making of them 
engines of war, for the vessels and boats, and sent to Carlisle for 
the operations of the Peel of Dumfries, in the beginning of 
the month of October, together with the wages of 200 ditchers 
and 5 smiths, coming from the same country to Dumfries, for the 
aforesaid operations in the same month, together with the expenses 
of the bailiff’s collecting the said ditchers and hiring them in the 
same month, as is evident from particulars supplied by the same 
Sheriff to Sir John de Drokenford at Newcastle upon Tyne, on 
the 13th day of October, £17 19s 11d; and for the expenses of 12 
quarrymen sent to the same place in the same month, for the said 
operations 10s 6d.—Total, £18 10s 5d.”’ 
“To Henry de Brandeston, clerk, assigned for paying the 
wages of ditchers, smiths, and other workmen coming from the 
County of Northumberland, for the making of the peel of Dum- 
fries, for the wages of 200 ditchers from the aforesaid county, of 
whom 10 were foremen, for 4 days, the 17th day of October being 
