_Wadmæl_, 167 Packs (of 60 Cuttels) at 6d. per Cuttel £250 10 0 _Butter_ and _Oil_, 1530 Lispunds at 12s. per Lispund 918 0 0 _Wattel_, commuted at 105 Dollars at 30s. each 157 10 0 _Tolls_, &c., 120 Angel-Nobles (at £4) and 20 Dollars 510 0 0 ————— —— —— Total Rental accounted for by the Donataries £1836 0 0 ===== == == But by the augmented Weight, Measure, and Price, the burdens actually extorted from the Lordship of Zetland were raised (exclusive of Ox-money and other unacknowledged exactions) to the amount and value of— _Wadmæl_, 167 Packs (of 80 Cuttels) at 2s. per Cuttel £1336 0 0 _Butter_, 2040 Lispunds at 18s. 8d. 1904 0 0 _Wattel_, 105 Dollars at 36s. each, with other augmentations 210 0 0 _Tolls_, &c. 2000 0 0 ————— —— —— Total actual burdens of Zetland £5450 0 0 ===== == == From these Abstracts of the Revenues of the Crown Estate and Bishopric of Orkney and of the Lordship of Zetland, the income drawn from the Islands by Earl Patrick, exclusive of a multitude of unacknowledged exactions, may be approximately stated thus— Orkney— Crown Skatts, Duties, and Males £25,650 0 0 Bishopric Rents and Teinds 19,215 0 0 Tolls, Customs, Admiralty, Justiciary, &c. (about) 6,000 0 0 Total Revenue of Orkney. ——————— —— —— £50,865 0 0 Zetland— Skatts, Males, Tolls, &c. 5,450 0 0 ——————— —— —— Total Revenues of Earl Patrick [3]£56,315 0 0 Footnote 3: About £5000 Sterling—a princely revenue in those days, when the general scarcity of coin, and poverty of kings and kingdoms had been met by a debasement of the coinage gradual and universal; but in Scotland so rapid, that the £ Scots, equivalent to the £ English in 1366, was worth only 8s. in 1468—6s. 8d. in 1540—3s. 4d. in 1568—and 1s. 8d. in 1600.