78 Tue CAsTLE oF DuMmFRIES. 
reckoned as the first, to each foreman 4d a day, and each other 
ditcher 2d, £7 Os Od. To the same for the wages of one master 
ditcher, receiving 6d a day, and 198 ditchers, 10 of whom were 
foremen, from the 21st day of October until the 30th day of the 
same month, both being reckoned, for 10 days, £17 11s 8d. To 
the same for the wages of Master Ade de St. Edmond, ditcher, 
receiving 6d a day, and 24 ditchers from the parts of Lochmaben, 
without a foreman, for 2 days, the 20th day of October being 
reckoned as the first, 9s. To the same for the wages of the said 
Master Ade, and 40 ditchers, one of whom was a foreman, from 
those parts, for 2 days, the 22 day of October being reckoned as 
the first, 14/8. Total, £25 15s 4d. 
On 24th October 7 women were employed cleaning the ditch. 
9 women worked 3 days, ending 27th October ; 10 were employed 
on the 28th October; 14 on the 29th, and 25 on the 30th, for 
the same purpose. In regard to the transport of the timber 
from Inglewood forest to the Castle of Dumfries the information 
furnished by the accounts is meagre. That a considerable part 
was rafted up the river appears from the following entries :—* To 
Richard de Sabuts, sailor, of Dartmouth, for ropes bought by the 
same for collecting, tying, and drawing timber to the peel of 
Dumfries in the month of October, 3 shillings.’? “To Robert de 
Belton for money paid by himself to divers porters carrying 
timber from the water near Dumfries to the peel of the same 
place, 4 shillings and 3 pence.”’ 
Other lots were carried by the foot soldiers who journeyed 
as before narrated, from Carlisle to Dumfries in the month of 
October. 53 soldiers were so employed, 20 being led by Con- 
stable Adam de Ward, and 33 by Alan de Midhope, constable. 
These men, in addition to the soldiers’ wage, were paid “ of the 
king’s gift and courtesy 2d per day for the labour which they 
sustained in carrying timber from Inglewood forest to the peel of 
Dumtfries.”’ 
The parts carried by the foot soldiers of the peel, which had 
been worked and made at Inglewood forest, ready to be put in 
position, arrived at Dumfries on the 26th October. In an 
account to Sir Robert de Clifford it is noted that Sir Robert re- 
turned to the King at Carlisle on the 18th day of October, on 
which day, it is said, the same King hurried his march to Dum- 
