80 Tue CASTLE OF DUMFRIES. 
worked with great ropes, controlled the entrance, and within the 
fortifications there were certain buildings, partly at least, con- 
structed of masonry. A chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, was 
ministered in by priests appointed for ministering to the garrisons, 
and there were stables and stores, and probably buildings for 
divers other purposes. So much we gather from the accounts. 
The nature of the peel worked at Inglewood forest is more diffi- 
cult to realise. The palisading, or some of it, was probably con- 
structed of the pales cut in the wood near Dumfries. What came 
from Inglewood was something more. It was worked and made 
and much smith’s work was wrought for securing the parts. The 
words used seem to imply that it consisted of a number of framed 
structures, which might be placed, as stated, “around the 
castle,’’? at intervals in the palisading, such, for instance, as 
turrets. This is the sort of combination which would best satisfy 
the terms used in reference to the peel of Dumfries. 
LATER CONSTABLES AND GARRISON. 
Having come to the end of the 28th year in which the cir- 
cumstances of the castle have been illustrated in some detail, we 
propose now to proceed on more general lines. 
Sir Arnold William de Podio followed Sir John de la Doline 
in the constableship, when a stock-taking and accounting as to 
the munitions in the castle took place. There were in garrison 
Sir Arnold, who had 4 barbed horses; James de Bruney and 
Ferreres de Bruck, with 2 barbed horses; 4 carpenters, a smith 
and his lad, a bowyer, a baker, a cook, a janitor, a chaplain, a 
clerk, 2 watchmen, a washerwoman, 4 labourers, 12 grooms of 
the men-at-arms, and 17 crossbowmen; total, 55. 
For these 55 persons sustenance from 31 July till Martinmas 
was provided, consisting of wheat and flour, ground malt, wine 
and salt. For 104 nights of 6 barbed horses, 39 quarters of oats 
are allowed; to make 3 casks of beer 17 quarters of malt; 30 
hogs are mentioned, 2900 herrings, and 150 hard fish called 
“ hakes,’’ also 20 carcases of oxen, 15 of beef, and 20 of mutton, 
ete: : 
The castle, however, does not seem to have been satisfac- 
torily provisioned. The King, writing from Linlithgow, on 17th 
November, 1301, says, that having ordered John de St. John to 
have 120 men-at-arms constantly arrayed to make forays on the 
