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xiv PREFACE.
and 29th regnal years ;* the 30th, 31st, and 32d, are of the
same barren character as the preceding ones to which we
have alhidedjf and of the Rolls for the remaining years of that
monarch's reign, not one has come down to us,J if, indeed,
they ever existed.
It appears, then, from what has been stated, that the Rotuli
Scotiae may be said to terminate with A.D. 1297, leaving a
blank of about ten years before the series is resumed.
To supply that blank we must turn to the documents con-
tained in the Queen's Remembrancer's Office, as indicated by
the present Catalogue. That series takes up the information
nearly at the point where we are deserted by the Scottish
Rolls, and guides us to more than one hundred and fifty con-
temporary and official Records of undisputed genuineness and
authenticity, illustrating the annals of Scotland, during that
most important period of her history. By them, among
other particulars, we may trace the progress of the English
arms, the number of soldiers appointed for the defence of the
garrisons in their possession, the quantity of victuals con-
sumed, and the expense with which the campaign was at-
tended. Hence are to be gathered many local facts, for
which we should probably search in vain elsewhere. A few of
* Rot. Scot., 1. 51.
+ " In hoc rotulo, sedecini membrauas densissime scriptas, etfere omnes utrinque,
continente, nihil invenitur nisi protectiones, etc. pro iis qui bellum gerebant in Scotia.
" — Editor's Note, i. 52.
I " Nulli sunt Eotuli Scotias de annis postremis regis Edwardi Primi." — Jbid.