44 ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. 



regulated the wages of workmen and labourers, 

 by a certain flandard -, introduced a better ftyle of 

 architecture j obliged landlords to rebuild or repair 

 all their manors, caftles, and forts ; and to fuper- 

 intend the civilization of their tenants, for whofe 

 conduct they were made partly refponfible. He re- 

 formed the courts of juftice, and obliged every advo~ 

 cate, who attended at the bar, to fwear, before 

 they entered upon any procefs, " that they fhould 

 fay nothing but truth, in order to make it appear 

 fuch to the judges : That they fhould not go about 

 to corrupt the judges, with promifes or bribes : 

 That they fhould make ufe of no falfe or frivolous 

 arguments : and laftly, That they fhould by no 

 means offer to delay or retard the decifion of the 

 cafe in debate. " He travelled through the moft 

 uncivilized parts of the Highlands, to fee that juf- 

 tice was duly adminiftered. He rebuilt, or repaired 

 bridges -, eftablifhed ferries and inns ; enforced the 

 antient warlike exercifes of the people, ordering 

 mufterings or wappinfhawings of all men, between 

 the ages of fixteen and fixty, to be made four times 

 a year, in every fheriffdom of the kingdom ; that 

 every fubject fhould be provided with warlike 

 weapons according to his degree ; the meanefl to 

 be.'furnifhed with fufficient bows and arrows, a 

 fword, buckler, and knife. Laws were enacted 

 againft drinking, and vanity in apparel ; cloaths of 

 (ilk, rich embroideries, coftly furs, necklaces of 



fhould be permitted, as had formerly been praclifed, to purchafe 

 herrings from the Scottifh fifhermen, at lea, nor until theywere 

 firft landed ; that fo their own burghers might be firft fupplied. 

 Whereupon the Netherlander and the German Hanfeatics (who, 

 till then, conitantly took off immenfe quantities of herrings from 

 the Scots, on their coafts, whereby Scotland was enriched) betook 

 thcmfelves dire&ly to that fifhery, whereby Scotland became after- 

 wards impoverished, and thofe other people were greatly enriched. 

 James I. having married his daughter Mary to Wolfred Lord of 

 Vere, the Scottilh flaple was removed from Bruges to that city, 

 where it hath generally remained to the prcfent time. 



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