_Wife of Robert de Bruce_.--In the Surrenden Collection is an
interesting roll, entitled "Liberatio facta Ingelardo de Warlee
Custodi Garderobe, 7 E. 2."

It is, as its title imports, the release to the keeper of the
wardrobe, for one year's accounts, aº. 7 E. 2.

I shall probably be able to send you therefrom a few "notes"
illustrative of the history of that time.

As a commencement, I think that the subjoined "note" will interest
your historical readers.

It appears that the unfortunate wife of Robert Bruce was then
consigned to the care of the Abbess of Barking, with an allowance of
20s. per week for the same. She was, I believe, the daughter of
Henry de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and died in 1328. In the above roll
there is the following entry:--

"Cs liberati Anne de Veer Abbatisse de Berkyng,
per manus domini Roberti de Wakfeld clerici, super
expensis domine Elizabethe uxoris Roberti de Brus,
percipientis per ebdomadum xxs., et ibidem perhendinantis."

"Cs liberati Johanni de Stystede valletto Abbatisse
de Berkyng, per manus proprias, super expensis
Domine de Brus in Abbathia de Berkyng perhendinantis."