t 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.):--

"(7 Edw. 2.) _De ducendo Elizabetham uxorem Roberti de Brus,
usque ad Castrum Rossense._

"Mandatum est Vicecomitibus London quod Elizabetham. Uxorem
Roberti de Brus, quae cum Abbatissa de Berkyngg' stetit per
aliquot tempus, de mandato Regis, ab cadem Abbatissa sine
dilatione recipiant, eam usque Ross' duci sub salva custodia
faciant, Henrico de Cobeham, Constabulario Castri Regis ibidem
per Indenturam, inde faciendam inter ipsos, liberandam; et hoc
nullatenus omittant.

"Teste Rege, apud Westm. xii. die Martii,
"Per ipsum Regem.

"Et mandatum est praefatae Abbatissae, quod praefatam Elizabetham,
quam nuper, de mandato Regis, admisit in domo sua de Berkyng'
quousque Rex aliud inde ordinasset, moraturam, sine dilatione
deliberet praefatis Vicecomitibus, ducendam pront eis per Regem
plenius est injunctum, et hoc nullatenus omittat.

"Teste Rege ut supra,
"Per ipsum Regem.

"Et mandatum est dicto Henrico, Constabulario Cas