Among the captives were three ecclesiastics, who had taken a prominent
part at the king's coronation--the Bishops of Glasgow and St. Andrews
and the Abbot of Scone, arrayed in most uncanonical costume.[1] Peter
Langtoft pathetically bewails their misfortune:--

"The Bisshop of Saynt Andrew, and the Abbot of
Scone,
The Bisshop of Glascow, thise were taken sone;
Fettred on hackneis, to Inlond ere thei sent,
On sere stedis it seis, to prison mad present."

An instrument in Norman French, printed in Rymer's great collection
(_Foedera_, vol. i. part ii. p. 994, new ed.), directs the manner in
which the prisoners were to be treated. As this document is curious, I
will give that portion which refers particularly to Bruce's wife, the
"Countess of Carrick:"--

"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