On data furnished by the ascertained difference in the value of silver in 1300, which is stated to be “_thrice_ as much” as it was in 1700, and the comparative value of certain provisions, estimated, as being in 1300, “_five_ times as cheap” as in 1700. Bishop Fleetwood “makes the difference of the value of a shilling between the two periods to be fifteen;” and it is added, “supposing this calculation to be well-founded, computations might be made, so as to form a judgment of the difference between the latter of those periods and the present time.”--(_Vide_ p. xii. Observations on Wardrobe Account, 1787.) An estimate of the expense of the Scottish war, according to this mode of computation, would therefore present the following result, for (1700) the period alluded to by Bishop Fleetwood:-- Charges on Scottish war for 1300 L.32,820 15 3½ For difference in the weight of silver 3 -------------- L.98,462 5 10½ For the variation in the value of money 5 -------------- L.492,311 9 4½ being an increase of the sum of 32,820_l._ 15s. 3½d. of the year 1300, to 492,311_l._ 9s. 4½d., or nearly _one-eighth_ of 3,895,205_l._, the revenue of the kingdom in the reign of William III., according to Sir John Sinclair:--while, from a statement by the same respectable authority, the whole revenue of the kingdom under Edward I. is estimated at 150,000_l_; the disbursements for the Scottish war will therefore be found to exceed, within one department of the national expenditure, _one-fifth_ of the national income. N. TRIAL OF WALLACE. Page 158. “William Wallace, which had oft-times set Scotland in great trouble, was taken and brought to London, with great numbers of men and women wondering upon him. _He was lodged in the house of William Delect, a citizen of London, in Fenchurch Street._ On the morrow, being the eve of St Bartholomew, he was brought on horseback to Westminster-hall; John Segrave and Geoffrey, knights, the mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen of London, _many, both on horseback and on foot_, accompanying him; and in the great hall at Westminster, _he being placed on the south bench_, crowned with laurel, for that he had said in times past that he ought to wear a crown in that hall, as it was commonly reported; and being appeached as a traitor by Sir Peter Malorie, the King’s Justice, he answered _that he was no traitor to the King of England_; but for other things whereof he was accused, he confessed them, and was, after, headed and quartered.”--_Stow. Chron._ p. 209. O. ON THE MARTYRDOM OF WALLACE. Page 159. The following account is given by Langtoft of the capture, sentence, and execution of Wallace: