Note 63 — Chapter V · WALLACE AGAIN TAKES REFUGE IN THE WOODS.—ORGANIZES A SYSTEM OF WARFARE.—HARASSES THE ENGLISH IN THEIR CANTONMENTS.—CONFLICT OF BEG.—BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF HIS EARLY COMPANIONS.—HIS DRESS AND ARMOUR.—ANECDOTE OF THE RELATIVE PERSONAL PROWESS OF WALLACE AND BRUCE.
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The servility of the Scottish Barons was not always unrequited. By the Rotuli Scotiæ, 19 Edward I. et passim 24, it appears he gave obligations of the following import.
Annual Value.
To the Bishop of Glasgow, lands of L.100
To James the Steward 100
To Patrick Earl of Dunbar 100
To John de Soulis 100 merks.
To William Sinclair 100
To Patrick de Graham 100
To William de Soulis 100
Edward afterwards changed his plan, and gave these barons and prelates gratifications in money, or other value. But to John Comyn the King gave the enormous sum of L.1563: 14: 6½d.—Tytler’s Hist. vol. i. p. 99.