The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with memoir of the author.

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NOTE S.
" Bring here," he said, " the mazers four,
My noble ]athers loved of yore."-P. 214.
These mazers were large drinking-cups, or goblets.
Mention of them occurs in a curious inventory of the
treasure and jewels of' James III., which will be
published, with other curious documents of antiquity,
by my friend, Mr. Thomas Thomson, D. Register of
Scotland, under the title of "A Collection of Inventories, and other Records of the Royal Wardrobe,
Jewel-House," &c. I copy the passage, in which
mention is made of the mazers, and also of an habiliment, called "King Robert Bruce's serk," i. e. shirt,
meaning, perhaps, his shirt of mail; although no other
arms are mentioned in the inventory. It might have
been a relic of more sanctified description, a penance
shirt perhaps.
Extract from "Inventare of ane Parte of the Gold
and Silver conyeit and unconyeit, Jowellis, and uther
Stuff _perteining to Umquhile oure Soverane Lords
Fader, that he had in Depois the Tyme of his Deceis,
and that come to the Handis of oure Soverane Lord
that now is, M.CCCC.LXXXVIII."
Memorandum fundin in a bandit kist like a gardeviant,l in the fyrst the grete chenye 2 of gold, contenand sevin score sex linkis.
1 Gard-vin, or wine-cooler. —2 Chain.