Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages
RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ABERDEEN. ADAM ANDERSON, ESQ. DAVID BALFOUR, ESQ. 5 CHARLES BAXTER, ESQ. ROBERT BELL, ESQ. ROBERT BLACKWOOD, ESQ. BINDON BLOOD, ESQ. BERIAH BOTFIELD, ESQ. 10 JAMES BURN, ESQ. HON. HENRY COCKBURN, LORD COCKBURN. JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. THOMAS CONSTABLE,...
Item, It suld be sperit at him, Quhat is the cause that he takis the Ordre for? quhethir for fairnes of corssage; or for hardinesse of curage; or for richesse, that he may be pr...
11. Part 11As thus a Man has tane to bere in his Armes a low of gules in a champ of siluer, ane othir of that ilke toune has tane the samyn efter that he has it wynteris and [gh]eris. Than...
5. Part 5In the tyme that cheritee, leautee, justice, and veritee was failit in the warld, than began crueltee, vnlautee, injure and falsetee: and than was errour and distrublaunce in th...
6. Part 6Item, Office of Knychtis is to manetene and gouerne landis and policy, and to defend thame; ffor the raddour and the drede that the peple has of the Knychtis, thai byde apon tha...
8. Part 8Item, The Horse-Hede is bundyn with ane hede-stell of the bridill, in that kynde that he suld do na thing, but be ordynaunce of the Knycht, that efferis till course of armes: an...
2. Part 2The Manuscript in question is a large folio of 132 leaves,[4] on lombard paper, written in a very distinct hand, about the end of the 15th century. It is in the original wooden...
1. Part 1RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ABERDEEN. ADAM ANDERSON, ESQ. DAVID BALFOUR, ESQ. 5 CHARLES BAXTER, ESQ. ROBERT BELL, ESQ. ROBERT BLACKWOOD, ESQ. BINDON BLOOD, ESQ. BERIAH BOTFIELD, ESQ....
9. Part 9And now is it spedefull that we se quhat is the vertu of Temperaunce, and quhat it is nedefull and behovefull till: And as to that, the Doctour sais, That Temperaunce is a vertu...
3. Part 3¶ And whanne he hadde redde therin/ he vnderstode that the knyght only amonge a thousand persones is chosen worthy to haue more noble offyce than alle the thousand/ And he had a...
12. Part 12And [gh]it mare, suld a King be temperit and messurit in his conuersacioun, and repair amang folk, in placis public, our oft tymes; ffor ony thing that Commouns seis oure oft th...
10. Part 10In Primis Off quhat rycht, or quhat evin cummys Bataill. 1[17] Be quhat rycht or resoun may Men moue were agaynis the Sarra[gh]enis or othir mistrowaris. 2 Gif the Emperoure sul...
4. Part 4The Autoure of this Buke rehersis, How it befell in a contree quhare a worthy, wyse, anciene Knycht, that lang tyme had bene in the exercisioun of honourable weris, the quhilk,...