Albeit that the Inglismen confessed that the Scottismen sauld have been fried of the payment of that banqueitt, quhilk was so gorgeous that it was of no les awaill than the said gold and wyne extended to.”--_Chronicles of Scotland, by Lindsay of Pitscottie_, vol. ii. p. 347, 348. It may also be observed, that the value which the Scots set upon the quality of the feathers used for their arrows, bespeaks a considerable proficiency in the art. Those of the Earn appear, from the following extract, to have been in the greatest request. “In the west and north-west of Scotland, there is a great repayring of the Erne, of a marvellous nature: the people are very curious to catch him, and punze his wings, that hee fly not. Hee is of a hudge quantity, and a ravenous kind as the hawks, and the same qualitie. They doe give him such sort of meat, in great quantity at once, that hee lives contented therewith 14, 16, or 20 dayes, and some of them a moneth. Their feathers are good for garnishing of arrowes, for they receive no raine nor water, but remaine alwayes of a durable estate, and uncorruptible. The people doe use them either when they be a hunting, or at warres.”--_A Memoriall of the most Rare and Wonderful Things in Scotland._ [79] “So late as the reign of James I. of England, there is an order dated A. D. 1616, that no less then nine bloodhounds should be kept on the Border, upon Esk and other places mentioned.”--_Pennant’s Tour_, 1772. i. 77. ii. 397. John Harding has given a curious account of the means used by Edward I. for taking Bruce, similar to that here said to have been employed against Wallace. “The king Edward with _hornes_ and _houndes_ him soght, With menne on fote, through marris, mosse & myre, Through wodes also & mountens, (wher they fought), And euer the kyng Edward hight men greate hyre, Hym for to take by might conquere; But thei might hym not gette, by force ne by traine, He satte by the fyre when thei (went) in the rain.” * * * * *