Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, Vol. 4 Bishop of Caithness, Commendator of the Abbeys of Kelso and Fern He was, according to Craufurd, 1 a natural son of the House of Inner meath, entered the Church - a common destination for illegitimate sons in the days with which we are dealing - and became distinguished, even in a time when such practices were thought little Of, by the number of offices which he held. 2 There are two accounts of his in the present volume - the first covering the period from 25th August 1511 to 14th August in the following year, and the second from the last-mentioned date to the 29th October 1512. There are, however, entries in the former account as early as the 7th August. It is a fairly full and well arranged statement of the income and expenses of the Court, but the second account, which only extends over a few weeks, has been done in a very Slovenly way, and at the date on which it comes to an end the Treasurer either resigned Office or was dismissed from it. There is some ground for supposing that he did not give satisfaction. His last account contains the singular and suspicious entry, as Dr. Burnett observes, 3 that the amount was fixed ad wstimationem, ' according to an estimate, an expression which has not been elsewhere observed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.