Salt-foot controversy

30 REPLY TO CANDIDUS.
ye consall and comand of hir moder and hir broyder ;
and as to ye lard of leyse payment, ye contrakkis
beris in yaim self I tak one my saule, I gat nevir na
payment of him, excepte jc merkis of money."
\Confirmed 22d June 1548.]
Instead then of blazing at tournaments, and of
commanding armies, this humble race have only
been solicitous to gain a decent livelihood by raising
a moderate crop of oats and barley ; — instead of
entering into solemn political negociations with
neighbouring barons, we find their representative
implementing a bargain with a village matron for
the sale of a few pecks of his grain ; — instead of
richly caparisoned steeds and palfrey, she has no-
thing in shape of such an animal ;* — baronial castles
are transformed into steadings ; circumambient
moats into preliminary dunghills, and the daughter
of the house, whom we might have fancied noble, and
peerless, with a splendid retinue of obsequious
knights, and damsels arrayed in magnificent apparel,
into possibly some such ordinary garlic-eating winch,
(though probably not so dainty in her diet,) as crazed
the intellects of the knight of La Mancha; for whom
the damage of certain rejected clothing and accoutre-
ments, transferred by her father to her brother
masters — to pass from one possessor to another; applied to pro-
perty."— ——>Jamieson.
* Not Allan certainly — it is even doubtful if Ms son Gawin
then possessed one.