_Butter_, 73½ Barrels at £20 per Barrel £1,470 0 0 _Do._, 182 Lispunds at £2 per Lispund 364 0 0 _Grain_, 253 at £60 per Last 15,180 0 0 _Flesh_, 113 Lasts at £16 per Last 1,808 0 0 _Poultry_, 1046 at 1s. each 52 6 0 _Swine_, 2 at £4 8 0 0 _Wax_, &c., about 33 6 10 _Money_ 299 7 2 ————— —— —— Total Bishopric. £19,215 0 0 ===== == == The following Abstract of the results of these Tables will exhibit briefly the progressive increase of the burdens of Orkney during the sixteenth century— 1502. Crown Rental £757 3 4 1540. By a rise of prices— Crown £1382 10 0 Bishopric 1251 2 6 Rental at the visit of James V. ——————— —— —— 2633 12 6 1568. By a farther rise of prices— Crown £6366 10 0 Bishopric 4381 2 6 Lord Robert Stewart’s first Rental ——————— —— —— £10,747 12 6 1592. By a rise of quantity, weight, and price— Crown £9016 0 0 Bishopric 9000 0 0 Earl Robert’s final Rental ——————— —— —— 18,016 0 0 1600. By farther rise of quantity, weight, and price— Crown £25,650 0 0 Bishopric 19,215 0 0 Earl Patrick’s Rental of Orkney ——————— —— —— 44,865 0 0 I am not aware of any authentic Rental of the burdens of Zetland during the sixteenth century, except the statement in the Charter to Maitland and Bellenden (1587), and the Comptroller’s Accounts (1588), after twenty years of Earl Robert’s aggravations of weight, measure, and value, when a third had been added to the contents of every Pack of Wadmæl and Lispund of Fat-gude at arbitrary conversions in a coinage as arbitrary. The nominal quantities (for which the Donatary compounded with the Royal Comptroller at £400) are there stated as follows:—