560 A. D. 1357. 



After this time the notices of the attendance of burgefTes in the par- 

 liaments of Scotland are more frequent : and in the title of the laws of 

 King Robert III (as publifhed by Skene) we are told, that the bifhops, 

 earls, barons, freeholders, and burgeffes holding of the king, were fum- 

 moned in the ufual manner. Admitting this to be genuine, burgeffes muft 

 then have been conftituent members of the parliament for a conliderable 

 time back. 



King David foon after his return into his own dominions appointed 

 Adam Tore, a burgefs of Edinburgh, and James Mulekin of Florence, 

 joint keepers of the exchange for all Scotland, and mafters of the mint*. 

 It feems probable that the exchange, to which thefe officers were ap- 

 pointed, was formed upon the model of the new one lately eftabliflied 

 in England by Edward, whofe example he wilhed, and greatly needed, 

 to follow in all methods of acquiring money. 



1358, November Before David was well fettled in his own king- ■ 



dom, he returned to England on a vifit to his kind brother-in-law, King 

 Edward. His bufinefs is faid to have been to entreat an abatement of 

 his ruinous ranfom, on condition of joining Edward in his wars ; and 

 he alfo requefted, that there might be mutual liberty for the merchants 

 of both kingdoms to trade freely in each, and that the money of both 

 might alfo pafs indifcriminately in each ; and thefe requefts, we are 

 told. King Edward agreed to. [Foederay V. vi, p. 98. — Knyghton, col. 

 2619.] 



It is alleged that the merchant-adventurers of England this year ob« 

 tained a grant of very ample privileges from the earl of Flanders, and 

 thereupon ellablifhed their trade in Bruges ; and that Bruges and all 

 Flanders, in confequence of that trade, grew to great wealth and pro- 

 fperity. {IVheeler's 'Treatife of commerce, p. 14.] But we know from un- 

 exceptionable authority, that Bruges and all Flanders were very profper- 

 ous long before this time f . 



1359, January 12'" — The trade of driving cattle from Scotland for 

 fale in England, which has continued down to the prefent day, is at 



from the fouth part of Biitaiii, it may be proper long captivity in Oftober 1556, the end of 13561 



to obferve, that the greyhounds (' leporarii') of or (ome time in 1357, feems the probable date of 



Scotland were fo much cftcemed, that the duke the appointment. In 1357 Adam Tore was one 



of BeiTy in France thought it worthwhile to fend of the rcprcfentatives of Edinburgh in parliament, 



his valet and three oilier men to procure fome of [Failcra, V. vi, />/>. 44-59.] It is worthy of in- 



them, and to obtain letters of fafe condudl from velligation, whether (he new exchange was eila- 



the king of England for them to travel through blillied tor exciianging _5-o/(/ and fih«r money. See 



his dominions upon that buimcfs. \_Fa:dcra, V. vii, below inidcr the year 1367. 



p. 831.] f Wheeler, wiio was fccretary to the company 



* This information is from a 7'fli/fo/"fon/fn// o/" of merchant-adventurers about the year i6co, 



charlen, i^c. MS. Bib. Harl. 4609, Roll D 2 A x, WTites with great zeal for the honour and intcrcft 



n'. 24, 2J. There are no dates mentioned ; but of his employers : he affetts roundly ; but he pro- 



aa n°. 42 of the fame roll contains the charter of duces no authoriiics, though he mentions feveral 



4:reation of the earldom of Douglas, which was in charters. His only original documints are fome 



February 1358 (as wc now reckon the commence- certilicates, probably procured by himfelf, the ear 



ment of the year) and the king returned from his licll of them being dated in 158^. 



