Note 100 — L. MEMOIR OF SIR SIMON FRASER. Page 113.
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From the following reproof, which he gave the Treasurer at Roslin, it would appear that these, or similar monies due to him, had not been justly settled for; and perhaps the chagrin he felt on that account may have partly occasioned his defection from Edward.
“Symon was austere, to Rauf spak fulle grim: ‘That mad the Tresorere thou has desceyued him, & me & many mo, fro our wages zede quite. Sir Rauf thou resceyued tho, bi taile & bi scrite, Thou did vs more trauaile, ilk man thou reft his wage. Now salle I wite the taile, & put the in the Arerage, Of preste thou has no merke, albe ne non amite, Bot laced in a hauberke, thai is no clerkis abite. For alle tho clerkes of Rome, that sing in kirk or rede, Thou salle haf thi dome, als thou serued in dede.’” Langtoft, vol. ii. p. 319.