To the same, for pilotage of said vessel 0 6 8 ---------- L.2 15 8 Paid Wewmund Gegge, of the Savoy of Tynemouth, freight of 143 quarters of wheat, from Kirkcudbright to Whitehaven, to be ground, and carriage of the same to Ayr, for the King’s army in that place--Wages for self and 9 seamen, 5. till 14. August, both included, 10 days L.1 7 6 [N. B. Wages of master 6d. and seamen 3d. per day, during the expedition to Scotland in 1300.] Average wages per day. viz. Labourers 2d. Plasterers 3d. Miners 3d. Masons 4d. Carpenters 4d. Smiths 4d. Boys, or Apprentices 2d. Prices of Oats per quarter. 1300. Jan. At Holderness 2s. 2d. p. 212 -- July. At Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2s. 6d. p. 113 Price of Wheat per quarter. 1300. June. At Cawode, near York 4s. p. 108 Prices in Scotland in 1285. Oats 4d., and Bear 8d. and 10d. per boll. Wheat 16d. and 20d.[B] [B] It has been already stated (page 39 of vol. I.), that the money of both countries was of equal value at this time. [48] From the following entry in the Wardrobe Account, it would appear, that in this expedition the English were provided with nets for fishing in the rivers and lakes of Scotland “_Reginaldo Janetori pro 2 reth’empt, per ipsum ad piscandum in repariis et stagnis in partibus Scocie ad opus Regis per manus proprias, apud Kirkudbright._” 4_s._ 2_d._ _Vide Wardrobe Account for the year_ 1300. _p._ 65. [49] Wyntown. [50] “That tyme wes in his cumpany A knycht off France, wycht and hardy; And quhen he in the watyr swa Saw the king pass, and with him ta Hys leddyr wnabasytly, He saynyt him for the ferly, And said; ‘A Lord! quhatt sall we say Off our lordis off Fraunce, that thai With gud morsellis fayrcis thair pawnchis, And will bot ete, and drynk, and dawnsis; Quhen sic a knycht, and sa worthy As this, throw his chewalry, Into sic perill has him set, To wyn a wrechyt hamillet!’ With that word to the dik he ran; And our eftre the king he wan.” The Bruce, _Buke Sext_, p. 177-8. [51] This circumstance is thus corroborated by a note attached to the Perth edition of Wallace. The editor, it would seem, had been present on the occasion: