“A.D. 1306. (34 Edw. 1.) Fait a remembrer, qi, quant la Femme le Conte de Carrik sera venue au Roi, ele soit envee a Brustewik [on Humber], & qe ele eit tieu mesnee, & sa sustenance ordenee en la manere desouz escrite:  cest asavoir,

“Qe ele eit deux femmes du pays oversqe li; cest asaver, une damoisele & une femme por sa chambre, qi soient bien d’age & nyent gayes, & qi eles soient de bon & meur port; les queles soient entendantz, a li por li servir: 

“Et deux vadletz, qi soient ausint bien d’age, & avisez, de queux l’un soit un des vadletz le Conte de Ulvestier [the Earl of Ulster, her father], cest asaver Johan de Benteley, ou autre qil mettra en lieu de li, & l’autre acun du pays, qi soit por trencher devant li: 

    “Et ausant eit ele un garzon a pee, por demorer en sa chambre,
    tiel qi soit sobre, & ne mie riotous, por son lit faire, & por
    autres choses qe covendront por sa chambre: 

    “Et, estre ce, ordenez est qeele eit un Vadlet de mestier, qe
    soit de bon port, & avisez, por port ses cleifs, por panetrie, &
    botellerie, & un cu: 

    “Et ele deit ausint aver trois leveriers, por aver son deduyt en
    la garrene illueques, & en les pares, quant ele voudra: 

    “Et qe ele eit de la veneison, & du peisson es pescheries,
    selene ce qe master li sera: 

    “Et qe ele gisse en la plus bele maison du manoir a sa volunte: 
    Et, qe ele voit guyer es pares, r’aillois entor le manoir, a se
    volunte.”

These orders are apparently not more severe than was necessary for the safe custody of the Queen; and, considering the date of their issue, they seem to be lenient, considerate, and indulgent.  Not so, however, with the unfortunate Countess of Buchan, who was condemned to be encaged in a turret of Berwick Castle ("en une kage de fort latiz, de fuist & barrez, & bien efforcez de ferrement;” i.e. of strong lattice-work of wood, barred, and well strengthened with iron[2]), where she remained immured seven years.  Bruce’s {291} daughter, Marjory, and his sister Mary, were likewise to be encaged, the former in the Tower of London, the latter in Roxburghe Castle.  The young Earl of Mar, “L’enfant qi est heir de Mar,” Bruce’s nephew, was to be sent to Bristol Castle, to be carefully guarded, “qil ne puisse eshcaper en nule manere,” but not to be fettered—­“mais q’il soit hors de fers, tant come il est de si tendre age.”

In 1308 (1 Edw. 2.), the Bailiff of Brustwick is commanded to deliver up his prisoner, to be removed elsewhere, but to what place it does not appear.  A writ of the 6th Feb. 1312, directs her to be conveyed to Windsor Castle, “cum familia sua.”  In October of the same year, she was removed to “Shaston” (Shaftesbury), and subsequently to the Abbey of Barking, where she remained till March, 1314, when she was sent to Rochester Castle, as appears by the following writ (Rymer, vol. ii. part i. p. 244.):—­