1589. _Butter_, 1822½ Lispunds (at 12s.) £1093 10 0 _Grain_, 236½ Lasts (at £30) 7095 0 0 _Flesh_, 113¾ Lasts (at £7, 4s.) 818 8 0 _Money_ in lieu of Forcop and Skatt Silver 109 0 0 ————— —— —— Total Crown Rental in Orkney £9015 18 0 ===== == == Accordingly Earl Robert’s final Rental, although the articles of payment differ in arrangement and commutation, amounts, at the former conversions, to nearly the same sum and value: 1592. _Butter_, 87½ Barrels at £9 per Barrel £787 10 0 _Do._ loose, 791½ Lispunds at 12s. per Lispund 474 18 0 _Grain_, 227 Lasts at £30 per Last 6810 0 0 _Flesh_, 97½ Lasts at £7, 4s. per Last 702 0 0 _Hawkhens and other Poultry_, 3242 at 6d. 81 1 0 _Swine_, 3 at £1, 16s. 5 8 0 _Peats, Rabbit-Skins_, and other minor articles 10 10 0 _Money_, in lieu of _Forcop_ and _Skatt Silver_ 144 13 0 ————— —— —— Total last Rental of Earl Robert £9016 0 0 ===== == == Thus showing an increase of quantities and value since his first audit of 1569 amounting to— _Butter_, 431½ Lispunds at 12s. £258 18 0 _Grain_, 67 Lasts at £30 2010 0 0 _Flesh_, 22½ Lasts at £7, 4s. 161 10 0 _Poultry, swine_, and minor articles 85 19 0 _Money_ 132 13 0 ————— —— —— Total augmentation of Rental by Earl Robert £2649 0 0 ===== == == If to this aggravation of the Rental we add his revenue from Tolls, Customs, Droits, Escheat and triennial Grassums, and consider the forced labour, the diminished area of cultivation, and the doubled penal conversions for every deficiency of these impossible quantities, we may estimate the income of Earl Robert and the misery of the Islanders; though the _Rentale pro Rege et Episcopo_ (1592–1600), which exhibits the numerical increase of exaction, is silent as to his aggravation of the Weights and Measures.