Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

CONFINEMENT IN THE CASTLK OF EUINBUIiGlI. cxcv
whom he obliged himself to relieve in case he coiitraveued the terms of
his liberatio'j.^
Seven months elapsed before p.aliament again took np the case of the
Earl of Hartfcll. His lordship, however, from some unascertained reason, did
not during the -whole of that time enjoy the restricted liberty granted him by
parliament to wliich allusion has just been made. lie was confined to the
castle of Edinburgh at least from 27tli October to ISth December. This
appears from a memorandum hologr'aph of the earl preserved in tlic Annan-
dale charter-chest containing these tvro entries :— " J>Iy wyfe cntei'cd to the
castlle wpone Mondaye being 27 October and remained witli mo to ij
November." " I wes relesed fromc the castlle 18 December." In addition
to these particulars there are in the same memorandum entries referring to
pa3'mcnts made b}' the earl to the soldiers and porter during this period.
These may also be quoted here:
—
"Item, to remember the sojaers is payd to the 1 Novernber 1G14, and maistcr
poirter to the afofiaaed day.
" To remember the sojers is payed be Hew Scottc to the 1 Xovembcr, and
lyekway.? the maister poiter.
" Item, from the 1 November to the xv, bolhc sojers and maister porter is payed
be William Litlle, and thatt samnc day Will: Litlle goote frome mc 10 dollors.
"Item, geuine to him att thatt sannic tym 10 dollors.
"Item, the maistcr porter and sojers ar be him [payed] other fourlciue days
from the xv November to the xxix thereof.
" Item, the maister porter is payed by him otlier fourteinc d: ys from the xxix
of Noreii^ber, being Eraydaye, to the xiij of December, being Frydae, and lyckwys
the sojers. Geuine to William Litlle tliatt day 10 doUers."
The only instance of the Earl of Ilarlfell leaving tlie town during tlie
seven months referred to was on the occasion of a \dsit to Lord Elibank at
Eallincrief in East Lothian, for a few^ days in January of the following year.
' Acts of tlje r.-irliauK-nts of Scot'aiifl, vol. vi., ji.irt {.]-'['. IJG, 233. Balfour's AMIlal^^,
vol. iii. pp. 170, 1S9, 191, 203, 224, 234, 241.