A. D. 1272. '425 



royal revenue, had thence an income of above four thoufand marks, 

 which flie drew out of the kingdom, to be expended in France along 

 with other funds which flie had in that country from her father Ingel- 

 ram de Coucy. Thence it appears, that the net royal revenue of Scot- 

 land was above twelve thoufand marks*. [M. Pa? is, p. 829.] The 

 portion of Margaret, the daughter of Henry III of England, married to 

 Alexander IH, the young king of Scotland, in the year 1251, was only 

 five thoufand marks, payable in four years, of which, however incred- 

 ible it may appear in the prefent day, the greateft part remained unpaid 

 in 1262, and then Henry, becaufe he had not money in hand, requeft- 

 ed Alexander's further indulgence till Eafter 1263 for the final pay- 

 ment. [^Foedera, V. i, pp. 467, 743.] What jointure was fettled upon 

 Margaret is unknown : Ihe died before her hufband. 



1273 — The amount of a new duty, called x\\e. gauge, at fome of the 

 chief ports for the importation of wine, as made up from the Wedenf- 

 day after Martinmafs 1272 to Michaelmafs 1273, gives us a pretty good 

 idea of the quantity of foreign wine ufed in' England. 



In London, - £i^ l6 7, which, at one penny per tun, make 3,799 tuns : 



Southampton and Portfmoiith, 13 2 3, - - - 3,147; 



and Sandwicli, - 7 18 4, - - 1,900; 



The total was ^36 17 2, the amount of gauge duty for 8,846 tuns ; 



befides the wines taken by the king in name of prife, being two tuns- 

 out of every cargo, which were not liable for the duty. [Madox's Hifi. 

 of the excheq. c. 18, § 2.] 



There was a duty of the fame kind in Scotland, which probably ori- 

 ginated about the fame time, as we find the office of the gaugery confi- 

 dered as an old efiablifhment in the year 1 304 f. 



The unfettled fiate of the German empire, together with the confu- 

 fions infeparable from a fuccelfion of controverted eledlions (the period 

 of which, from the death of Frederic 11 to the eledion of Rodolph, earl 

 of Hablhurg and founder of the houfe of Auftria, in the year 1273, is 

 called by the German hiftorians the long interregnum) very much 

 weakened the imperial authority in Germany, and reduced it to nothing 

 in Italy. . During thofe convulfions, the cities of Germany, already re- 



* In the preceding page Mathew Paris makes ing a part of the year 1304, direfted the earl of 



the queen's jointurey^iii-w thoufand marks, by which Athol to make inquiry, whether, according to the 



reckoning the net royal income of Scotland is eib.blifiied ulage, he had a riglit to difpofe of the 



twenty one thoufand ; alnioH equal to that of Eng- office of the gaugery. \_Ryni;r's Cjl/:f!. manufa-. 



land, and, if reckoned in proportion to the popu- Fl iii, ?!'. 116, 117.] It is worthy of obfervation, 



lation, greatly fuperlor. Therefor we may vcr.- that the king's order to the earl was in French, 



ture to pronounce the greater number erroneous, and the earl in his precepts to the magiurates of 



By the third chapter of the afts of James III, the the towns, defiring them to iuRItute inquiries for 



queen's jointure is declared to be one third of the the king's information, fent them copies of the 



king's land and cuHoms : and the fame rule was o\AtT tranjlated into Latin, which thence appears 



probably adhered to in earlier times. to have been more generally j\ c'erflood in Scov 



t King Edward, being mafter of Scotland dur- land than French. 



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