Larder

( The Douglas ), the flour, meal, wheat, and malt of Douglas Castle, emptied on the floor by good Lord James Douglas, in 1307, when he took the castle from the English garrison. Having staved in all the barrels of food, he next emptied all the wine and ale, and then, having slain the garrison, threw the dead bodies into this disgusting me , “to eat, drink, and be merry.”—Sir W. Scott, Tales of a Grandfather , ix. Wallace’s Larder is a similar me . It consisted of the dead bodies of the garrison of Ardro an, in Ayrshire, cast into the dungeon keep. The castle was surprised by him in the reign of Edward I.