_Butter_ £72 0 0 _Cost_ 440 0 0 _Flesh_ (150 cattle at £1, 10s. per head) 225 0 0 _Hawkhens_ at 6d. 11 0 0 ——— —— —— Total Land males 748 0 0 ———— —— —— Total Crown Rental £1382 10 0 ===== == == The same Tack duty of £2000 was paid by Lord Robert Stewart as a Feu-duty; and in 1568, the first year of his actual exercise of power, the higher prices of conversion had raised the Crown Rental to the following value, without increase of quantity:— 1568. _Butter_, 87½ Barrels (at £9 per barrel) £787 10 0 _Malt_, 60 Lasts (at £30 per last) 1800 0 0 _Wattel_, 12 Lasts (£360), _Forcop_ (£12) 372 0 0 ——— —— —— Total Odal payments £2959 10 0 _Butter_, 24 barrels £216 0 0 _Cost_, 88 Lasts 2640 0 0 _Flesh_, 59 Lasts (at £7, 4s.) 424 16 0 —— _Marts_, 32 (at £3, 12s.) 115 4 0 _Hawkhens_, 440 (at 6d.) 11 0 0 ——— —— —— Total Land males of Earldom 3407 0 0 ————— —— —— Total first Rental of Earl Robert £6366 10 0 ===== == == On his disgrace (1587) and the new grant to Chancellor Maitland and Bellenden on an increased duty of £4000, the Rental, as stated in their Charter, was found to have been raised to the following quantity and value, without distinction of Skatt or Land male. 1587. _Butter_, 1458 Lispunds (at 12s.) £874 16 0 _Grain_, 189 Lasts (at £30) 5670 0 0 _Flesh_, 91 Lasts (at £7, 4s.) 605 6 0 _Money_, in lieu of Forcop and Skatt Silver 109 0 0 ————— —— —— Total (acknowledged) Rental of the Crown £7259 2 0 ===== == == But this numerical statement of quantities no longer expressed the actual burdens of Orkney. Earl Robert’s increase of the weights and measures had added a fifth to every nominal Mark, Lispund, Meil, or Last in the Rental, and when he was reinstated (1589) (compounding at a reduced Feu-duty of £2075), the quantities and value actually paid under the nominal Rental amounted to—