Notes on Branxkolme. By W. Eliott Lockhart. 433 



Lurdein was in a maner all one wyfch the Lorde, and the Lounde with the 

 Larde : all clad a lyke in iackes cone red wyth whyte leather, dooblettes of 

 ye same, or of fustian, and most commonly al white hosen. Not one wt 

 either cheine, brooch, ryng, or garment of silke that I could see, onles 

 cheynes of latten drawen four or fy ve times along ye thighs of theyr hosen 

 and dooblet sleues for cuttyng ; and of ye sort T sawe many. 



" This vileness of port was the caus that so many of theyr great men 

 and gentlemen wear kyld and so few saued. The out ward e sheaw, the 

 semblaunce and sign, whearby a stranger might diseiru a villain from a 

 gentleman, was not among them to be seen." 1 



In regard to Commissariat, there would seem to have been 

 decided improvement since Froissart's day, and in this respect 

 they even earn some faint praise from Patten, who after the 

 battle says he found some of Sir Rafe Sadlyr's footmen, who 



" Sumwhat bisyly applied theyr market, the spoile of this Scottish 

 Campe ; wherein wear found good prouisiou of whyte bread, ale, oten 

 cakes, otemeal, mutton, butter in pottos, chese, and in diuers tentes good 

 wyne also ; good stores, to say truth of good vitaile for the maner of theyr 

 cuntrie, and in some tentes amoong them (as I hard say) wear also founde 

 of silver plate a dish or ii.; ii. or iii. goblettes, and iii. or iiii. chalices, the 

 whiche the fynders (I know not with what reuerence but wt sum deuotion 

 hardely) pluct out of the colde clouts, and thrust into theyr warme 

 boosoms." 2 



His description of the Scottish tents, or " whyte ridges," as he 

 calls them, is very quaint. 



" As they had no pavilions, or round houses of ony comendable cumpas ; 

 so wear there few outher tentes wt postes as ye vsed maner of makyng is ; 

 and of these fewe also, none of aboove xx foot length, but most far vnder, 

 for the most part all very sumptuously beset (after their facion) for the 

 loove of Fraunce, with fleur de lices, sum of blue buckeram, sum of black, 

 and sum of sum oother colours. Thase whyte ridges (as I cauld them) . . 

 when we cam, we found it a lynnen draperie of the coorser cameryk in 

 dede, for it was all of canuas sheets, and wear the tenticles or rather 

 cabayns and couches of theyr souldiours,the which (much after the common 

 byldyng of their cuntrie bisyde) had they framed of iiii. stiks, about an 

 elle long a pece." He then describes the fixing of these stiks " over which 

 thei stretched a shete doun on both sides, whearby their cabain became 

 roofed lyke a rydge, but skant shit at both endes, and not very closa 

 beneath on the sydes, onles their stiks wear the shorter, or their wiues 

 ye more liberal to lend them larger naperie. Howbeit, win they had lyned 

 them and stuf t them so thick with strawe, yet ye weather as it was not very 

 cold, when they wear ones couched thei wear as warme as thei had bena 

 wrapt in horsdung." 3 



1 Patten, p. 69. 2 Ibid., p. 70 ; Hay ward's Chronicles, p. 988. 

 3 Ibid., p. 71-2. 

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