“Of the actual time when Sir David Lindsay came to England to engage in this passage of arms, we have the most authentic proof, in the original writs granted for his safe conduct, which are yet extant in that interesting body of Scots’ Records, entitled ‘_Rotuli Scotiæ_,’ or the Rolls of Scotland. These invaluable historical documents contain,--says the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne, in his excellent notices of them attached to the printed copies, published by the Commissioners of the Public Records, London, 1819, folio, volume ii., page 7,--‘an important collection of Records, illustrative of the Political Transactions between England and Scotland.’ They commence with the nineteenth year of King Edward I.--A. D. 1290,--and terminate with the eighth year of King Henry VIII.--1516. With the exception of two Rolls of 1339 and 1360, the 13th and 34th of Edward III., which are in the Chapter House at Westminster, all the remainder are deposited in the Wakefield Tower, in the Tower of London. The character in which they are written, of course, varies according to the different reigns, but it is, in general, a small and clear current Court-hand, with a moderate proportion of contractions; and their contents are composed of Treaties, Ransoms, Attainders, Grants, Licenses, and Passes of Safe Conduct for persons during war, some of which I am about to mention to you, as being proof of the Justing on London Bridge, in 1390. In the Second Volume then of the printed ‘_Rotuli Scotiæ_,’ page 103, Column 1; or on Membrane 3 of the original Roll of the 13th of Richard II.,--1389-90 you will find the first of these instruments, a translation of which runs thus. “‘Safe conduct for David de Lyndesey, Knight, for the duel to be fought with John de Welles.