[E] Vide D. Hen. Spelman. Gloss. in voce Rageman, and Repository of Records, p. 26. Had this candid and generally correct writer referred to Fordun, Book X. chap, xvii., he might have satisfied himself as to the date, origin, and nature of this roll, as well as the name and character of its author. The alteration of Bagimont to Rageman, is evidently an English corruption, which the writers of that country ought to be best able to explain. Ragman’s Roll, as a roll of vassalage to Edward, is unknown to ancient English and Scottish historians.
[28] Hailes, 137, 138.
[29] Hailes, 155, 156.
[30] Vol. ii. p. 443 & 444.
[31] Vol. ii. p. 187. 3d edition.
[32] Chron. Melrose, p. 179.
[33] Hoveden, fol. 420.
[34] Fœdera, vol. i. p. 155.
[35] Icelandic Chronicle.
[36] Hailes, 188, 189.