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 ( 96 ) erſ; who were empowered to form a plan government for Scotland. This commission agreed that the principal officers to administer the king's authority in Scotland, should be a guardian and lieutenant, a chancellor, a chamberlain, and a comptroller. What under these three, should he sheriffs in the different counties, who, after the first general appointment by the king, should in time to come, he subject to be displaced or appointed by the authority of the guardian and the chamberlain. Chat they should also chose coroners to succeed thoro whom they might find unfit for the office. That the castles of Roxburgh and Jedburgh, should be in the custody of the guardian: those of Edinburgh and Linlithgow, Stirling and Dunbarton, should remain under the care of their present gover- nors; and that the castle of Kildrummy should be committed, by Bruce, to one for whom he should be answerable. This castle belonged to Bruce himself, and had been long a family residence. It was strongly fortified, with va- rious subterraneous passages and concealorents, corresponding to the greatneſs and opulence of the princely family of Bruce. It was farther stipulated, that the written laws of Scotland, which bad been enacted in the days of David I. and his successors, should be collected and revised by the guardian. with the assistance of ten other principal officers, and then promulgated and administrated as the common law.cl the country. That for the enact