tri Regis
praedicti, quod ipsam Elizabetham de praedictis Vicecomitibus, per
Indenturam hujus modi, recipiat, et ci cameram, infra dictum
Castrum competentem pro mora sua assignari:

"Et viginti solidos, de exitibus Ballivae suae, ei per singulas
septimanas, quamdiu ibidem moram fecerit, pro expensis suis,
liberari faciat:

"Eamque, infra Castrum praedictum, et infra Prioratum Sancti
Andreae ibidem, opportunis temporibus spatiari sub salva custodia
(ita quod securus sit de corpore suo), permittat:

"Et Rex ei de praedictis viginti solidis, praefatae Elizabethae
singulis septimanis liberandis, debitam allocationem, in compoto
suo ad Scaccarium Regis, fieri faciet.

"Teste ut supra,
"Per ipsum Regem."

But the day of deliverance was close at hand: the battle of Bannockburn,
so fatal to the English, was fought on the 24th June; and on the 2nd of
October the Constable of Rochester Castle is commanded to conduct the
wife, sister, and daughter of Robert Bruce to Carlisle (_usque
Karliolum_), where an exchange of prisoners was made. Old Hector Boece,
who, if Erasmus can be trusted, "knew not to lie," informs us, that
"King Robertis wife, quhilk was hald in viii. yeris afore in Ingland,
was interchangeit with ane duk of Ingland"[3] [Humphrey de Bohun, Earl
of Hereford]. And the aforesaid Barbour celebrates their restoration in
the following lines:--

"Quhill at the last they tretyt sua,
That he[4] till Inglond hame suld ga,
For owtyn paying of ransoune, fre;
And that for him suld changyt be
Byschap Robert[5] that blynd was mad;
And the Queyne, that thai takyn had
In presoune, as befor said I;
And hyr douchtre dame Marjory.
The Erle was changyt for thir thre."

W.B. RYE.

[Footnote 1: _Loricati_, (in their coats of mail.)--_Matthew of
Westminster._]

[Footnote 2: See the order at length in Rymer, _ut sup._]

[Footnote 3: Bellenden's translation.]

[Footnote 4: The Earl of Hereford.]

[Footnote 5: Wishcart, Bishop of Gloucester, before alluded to.]

* * * * *

A NOTE ON ROBERT HERICK, AUTHOR OF "HESPERIDES."

In the summer of 1844, I visited Dean Prior in company with my brother,
in order to ascertain if we could add any new fact to the scanty
accounts of the _Life of Herrick_ recorded by his biographers. The
events of his life have been related by Dr. Drake, (_Literary Hours_,