hir children's quarters, etc., 6 dollars.
Item, for 2 quaire of paper, 18 pence.
Item, for my decreit and charging Rot. Johnston, 18 pence.
Item, on other uses, tua shillings.
Item, on win with Mr. Pat. Hamilton, a shilling.
Given to my wife on the 10 of May for the use of
the house, ij dollars.
Which making up 18 dollars and more compleit the 80 merks,
so their remains 300 mks. behind, out of which imprimis:
In Haliburton's with Sam. Cheisley, 40 shiling.
Item, to the kirk broad at Dudiston, 6 pence.
Item, to the barber, halfe a mark.
Item, in Masterton's with G. Gibson, 31 shilling.
Item, to Will. Sutherland, a mark.
For G. Burnet's reply and conferences, 3 shillings.
To Mr. Mathew Ramsay's nurse, a dollar.
For a pint of win their, 24 shilings.
For copieng a paper, 40 shiling.
Item, for mum and walnuts, 9 pence.
Item, at the kirk door, 6 pence.
Item, for win and sugar, 7 pence.
Given to my wife for furniture to my cloaths and
hir oune goune, 5 dollars.
Item, in Haliburton's for mum, 22 shiling.
Item, upon seck, 9 shiling.
Item, in James Haliburton's, 18 pence.
Item, given to my wife, a dollar.
Item, at the kirk door and on other uses, 13 pence.
Item, to Jo. Steinsone, gairdner, 14 pence.
Item, to my wife to be given to hir washer and other uses, 2 dollars.
Item, to Lancelot Ker for copieng a book to me first, a dollar.
Item, given to my wife, 6 dollars.
Upon other use I remember not, 2 dolars.
This is on 100 mks.
Item, on coffee, the poor and other uses, 3 shillings.
Item, given to my wife to pay hir servants fies on
the 31 of May 1673, ij dollars.
[Lent to Mr. Jo. W.][674] repayed me [3 dollars.][674]
Item, upon mum, 12 pence.
Item, for the provests last act, to Jo. Trotter in his
Improbation, 30 shilling.
For a quaire of paper, 9 pence.
Given to my wife on the 4 of June, 1673, 5 dollars.
In James Haliburton's, 14 pence.
Payed for 2 pair of shoes, 6 shillings and a groat.
On a quaire of paper and other uses, a mark.
[674] Erased in MS.
This is near another 100 merks.
Item, given to my wife on the 9 day of June 1673, 6 dollars.
To Joseph the barber, a shilling.
Item, in Ja. Haliburton's, 18 pence.
Item, for a timber chair, 18 pence.
Item, on Leith on the race day, 3 shillings.
Item, at the kirk door, 6 pence.
For the post of a letter from my goodbrother, 14 pence.
Item, in Maistertons with young Idington when he went away, 32 shiling.
At dinner in Haliburton's, 20 pence.
Item, to the barber, 6 pence.
Item, upon other uses, 6 pence.
Item, to my father's woman who keips the child
George, given by myself and my wife, 2 dollars.
Item, given to my wife, a dollar.
Payed to the coallman, 10 lb.[675]
Item, upon paper and ink, 10 pence.
Item, in Ja. Haliburtons, 10 pence.
Item, given to my wife for buying a scarfe, hood, 10 pence.
fan, gloves, shoes, linnen for bands, etc., 7 dollars.
[675] This is one of the few instances in which an item of
expenditure is stated in pounds.
This is another 100 merks. And which compleits the haill 380 merks receaved
from my father on the 8 of may 1673.
Upon the 20 of June 1673 I receaved from William Binning a years salarie as
tounes assessor which he was owing me for the year 1671 wheirin he was
tresurer, being 150 lb. Scots, which is about 229 merks, out of which:
Imprimis, for a pair of net leather shoes, 3 shillings.
Item, in Painston's with Mr. Todridge, 48 shill.
Item, given to my wife partly to pay Margaret
Neilsons fie and partly for other uses, 3 dollars.
For a triple letter its post for Rome, 15 pence.
Item, for seing the play called the Spanish Curate, halfe a dollar.
Item, for cherries to Kate Chancellor their, halfe a dollar.
Item, theirafter in Aikman's, 14 pence.
Item, at the kirk door, halfe a mark.
Item, spent when I was at Liberton kirk, 2 shillings.
Item, for Thomas the Rymer's Prophecies, 4 pence.
For the Lords answer in Fairlies case, a dollar.
Item, given to my wife to compleit Margaret Neilsons
fie during the haill tyme of hir service
besides what was payed hir formerly, 6 dollars and a mark.
Given to my wife for sundry uses, 10 dollars.
To my sone John's nurse, 10 merks.
Item, to buy paper etc. to him who copied me
Mckeinzies Criminals, 29 shiling.
Item, payed at sundrie tymes in the taverne, 30 pence.
Item, for a dozen of silver spoons wying tuo onces
the peice in all 24 onces at 5 shillings and 6 pence
per once, making each spoon to be ellevin shillings
sterling,[676] 47 lb.
for I gave them in exchange 6 old silver spoons, which fell
short of 6 new ons in 10 shillings sterl. upon the want of
weight, and the accompt of the workmanship, so they stood
me in all as I said before 47 pounds Scots.
Item, payed to the ailman for are accompt of aill furnished, 24 lb.
[676] Price of silver.
This makes near the 150 lb. receaved from Bailzie Binnie.
Item, in the end of June 1673 1 receaved from William Broun, agent for the
borrows, in their name and behalfe, my pension of 12 lb. sterl., being for
the year praeceiding Whitsonday 1673; out of which:
Imprimis, given to my man when he brought it to me, a dollar.
Item, to the barber, a 6 pence.
To the kirk broad, halfe a mark.
Item, on coffee, 3 pence.
Item, for Reusneri Symbola Imperatoria to the
Janitor, 18 pence.
Item, to him for the particular carts[677] of Lothian,
Fyffe, Orknay and Shetland, Murray, Cathanes,
and Sutherland, at 10 p. the peice, 3 pound.
Item, at Pitmeddens woman's marriage, given by
my selfe and my wife, 2 dollars and a shil.
Item, on halfe a dozen of acornie[678] spoons, 2 shillings.
Item, payed to Adam Scot for a mulct in being
absent from a meiting of the advocats, 28 shiling.
Item, payed to Edward Gilespie for my seat maill[679]
from Whitsonday 1672 to Whitsonday 1673, 12 lb.
Item, to the copier of Mckeinzies Criminalls, a mark.
Item, to the barber, halfe a mark.
To the kirk basin, halfe a mark.
Given to my wife, a mark.
Item, on brandee, 3 shilling.
Given to M'ris Mawer in charity, 29 shiling.
Item, payed in Pat Steills, a mark.
Item, on the 15 of July 1673 given to my wife, 10 rix dollars.
Upon win in Rot. Bell's house, 2 shillings.
Item, at the Presidents man's penny brithell, a dollar and a 6 pence.
In H. Gourlay's with D. Stevinson, 38 shiling.
[Given to my wife to buy me a pair of worsted
stockings, 4 shillings.][680]
Item to the barber, a 6 pence.
Item, Tom Gairdner for bringing cheerries from Abbotshall, a shiling.
To the kirk broad, 6 pence.
Item, for mounting my suit of cloaths with callico,
buttons, pockets, etc., 3 dollars.
Item, to the taylor for making them, a dollar.
Item, to Walter Cunyghame for keiping our gounes, a dollar.
Item, upon cherries, 6 pence.
Item, in Painstons, a shilling.
Item, to the copier of Mckeinzies Criminalls, 2 mark.
Item, for seing the Maidens tragaedy for my selfe
and Mr. William Ramsay,[681] a dollar.
At the kirk door, 6 pence.
To the barber, halfe a mark.
In Aickmans after the comedy, a mark.
In Ja. Haliburtons, a mark.
Item, at a collation also their, 28 shiling.
Item, at collations theirafter, 7 shillings st.
Upon the 1 of August 1673 given to my wife for
the use of the house that moneth, 18 dollars and a halfe.
[677] Price of maps.
[678] This word, distinctly written, looks at first like acomie, but
is no doubt the word acornie (French, _acorné_, horned), which
Jamieson defines as a substantive, meaning 'apparently a drinking
vessel with ears or handles.' He quotes from _Depredations on the
Clan Campbell_, p. 80: '_Item_, a silver cup with silver acornie,
and horn spoons and trenchers.' It seems more probable that the
word in both passages is an adjective, applicable to spoons, and
descriptive of the pattern.
[679] Seat rent in church.
[680] Erased in MS.
[681] Price of theatre.
Which makes up the full 12 lb. sterling received by me from the borrows.
The nixt money I brok was some given me in consultation this summer
session, or in payment ather by the gairdner or Rot. Johnston, who had the
loft,[682] Mr. Jo. Wood or other, making in all as I have every particular
set doune in writing beside me about 280 merks and upwards, out of which
Imprimis the said 1 of August
given farder to my wife for the use of the house, 4 dolars.
Item, to Samuel Colvill for his Grand Impostor discovered, 3 dollars.
Item, to him who brought home my session goune, a mark.
To Rot. Meins man when he brought me the confections
the nixt day after the tounes cherry
feast to the exchequer, 15 pence.
For the new help to discourse, 20 pence.
To the barber, halfe a mark.
To the kirk basin, halfe a mark.
For 2 quaire of paper, 14 pence.
For 4 quaire of great paper for copieng the statutes
of the toune of Edr. theiron, 32 shilling.
To Grange[683] his man, a mark.
To the barber, 6 pence.
To the kirk bason, 6 pence.
To Will Sutherland, a mark.
Given to my wife, a shilling.
Upon win with Rot. Hamilton the clerk, a mark.
For Evelins Publick employment against Mckeinzies Solitude, 9 pence.
Spent in Arthur Somervells, a mark.
Spent in Ja. Haliburtons on night, 2 mark.
For carieng a book to Hamilton, 6 pence.
To the barber, 6 pence.
For a quaire of paper, 9 pence.
To the kirk basin, 6 pence.
For a double letter from my good-brother Sir Androw R., 28 shilings.
To my nurse when she came to sie me on the 20 of August 1673, a dollar.
Item, given to my man, a mark.
Item, upon sundry other uses not weill remembred
by me because small, 29 shil.
To the barber, 6 pence.
Upon seck with Mr. Innes my Lo. Lyons clerk for Granges armes, 13 pence.
Upon pears and plumes, 5 pence.
To the kirk bason, 6 pence.
Item, upon seck, 8 pence.
Item, in Mary Peirs's with Stow and John Joussie, 27 shiling.
[682] Parts of his house sublet.
[683] William Dick of Grange, son of William Dick, a younger son of Sir
William Dick of Braid. His grand-daughter and heiress, Isobel
Dick, was married to Sir Andrew Lauder, Fountainhall's grandson
and successor.
[After this portion of the MS. only selections have been made.]
For the Gentleman's calling, a shilling.
For the Guide to Gentlewomen, 2 mark.
For the colledge of fools, 4 pence.
Item, for a letter from Sir Androw R. from Paris, 14 pence.
For Donning's Vindication of England against the Hollanders, 16 pence.
For le tombeau des controverses, 7 pence.
For 4 comoedies, viz. Love in a Nunnery, Marriage
a la mode, Epsom Wells, and Mcbeth's tragedie at
16 p. the peice, 5 shils. and a groat.
Upon morning drinks for sundry dayes, 6 pence.
To Joseph Chamberlayne for trimming my hair, 6 pence.
To Thomas Broun for Howell's Familiar letters, 5 shilings stg.
For every man his oun doctor, 2 shillings.
For the journall of the war with Holland in 1672, 2 shillings.
For the Mercury Gallant, 2 shillings.
For the Rehearsall transprosd, 18 pence.
For the Transproser rehears't, 18 pence.
On morning drinks and other uses, a mark.
For Stubs Non justification of the present war with Holland, 4 marks.
For the Present State of Holland, 34 shiling.
For halfe a mutskin of malaga with Pat. Wause, 6 pence.
To Samuell Borthwick for letting blood of my wife, 3 mark.
To Ja. Borthwick's other prentise that was with him, a mark.
For a mutskin of sack in Ja. Deans at the Cannogate foot, 14 pence.
I had receaved from Thomas Robertsone thesaurer to the good toune on the 21
of August 1673 first 12 Ib. sterling for a years pension due to me by the
toune from Lambes 1672 till Lambes 1673: as also I got at the same tyme ane
years annuel rent of the principall soume of 5000 merks he is owing me by
bond being from Lambes 1672 till Lambes last 1673, which was only 263
merks, because he retained 37 mks. and a halfe or 25 Ib. Scots of the
ordinar annuelrent of 6 per cent. for 3 quarters of a year, vid., from
Mertinmas 1672 till Lambes last 1673, conforme to the act of parlia. made
in 1672,[684] and first out of the said 12 lb. sterling (being 220/219
merks) of pension given:
[684] See note, p. 273.
Imprimis to Granges man when he brought over the
apples and pears, a mark.
Item, on the 10 of October 1673 to my wife to buy
hir great chimley with over and above hir old one,
which she gave them in, 8 dollars.
In Guynes with Mr. Wood, Mr. C. Lumsdean, and others, 20 pence.
For taking out the extract of Granges blazoning,
first to the Lyon himselfe, [10 merks.][685]
this is repayed me.
Then to Mr. Rot. Innes his clerk, [6 merks.][685]
this also.
To Wil. Sutherland when he went to Grange with
his patent of his bearing, a mark.
At dinner in Ja. Haliburtons with Mr. Gray the
converted papist, 22 shiling.
At Jo. Mitchells with Mr. Pollock the merchand
and Mr. Gilbert, 52 shiling.
To J. Mitchell's man who lighted me home, 3 pence.
Given to Wm Sim for copieng to me the compend
of the Statutes of Edenbrugh being. 6 rix dollars.
just 5 quaire of paper, which 6 rix dollars makes just 3 pence
the sheit; its only a shilling lesse.
[685] Erased in MS.
Item for a mutsking of sack with Mr. Garshoires, a shilling.
In Mr. Rot. Lauder's when we saw his wife, a dollar.
To my man Androw Bell to buy a bible and a knife
with to himselfe, a rix dolar.
On the 10 of Nov'r, the day the comissioner came
in, spent with Mr. Thomas Patersone, 52 shiling.
On the ij of Nov'r given to my wife more then hir
monethes silver to perfit the price of hir black
fringes to hir goune, which stood hir 36 lb., tua dollars.
For Temple's Observations, 35 shiling.
To the parsone of Dyserts woman when she brought
over the ham, a mark.
At Mr. David Dinmuires woman's brithell, a dollar and a groat.
For Quean Margaret of France hir Memorialls, 16 pence.
For a black muff to my wife, ij shillings.
For buttons to my shag coat, 29 shiling.
For the kings letter to the parl. of Scotland, 2 pence.
Casten in at my servant John Nasmith's wedding
on the 5 of Dec'r, 5 rix dolars.
Item, to the music, a mark.
Given to my wife to cast in, 3 rix dolars.
Given in charity to on Christian Cranston, a dollar.
Item, given to my wife, a dollar.
Item, on the 8 of Dec'r given hir, 5 dollars.
Item, in this money their was a dollar of ill money.
The nixt money I brok upon was 52 dollars (wheirof 31 of them ware
legs[686]), which I had receaved at sundrie tymes from severall parties in
consultation money, conforme to a particular accompt of their receipt
besyde me.
[686] See Introduction, Money.
Out of which payed Imprimis to Mr. Ja. Hendersone for Ja. Sinclar of Roslin
in the begining of Dec'r 1673 to compleit the payment of the bill drawen by
Sir Androw Ramsay upon me of 789 lb. 4 shillings Scots money conforme to
Roslin's receipt of the haill bill. 185 mks.
in 42 legged dollars,[687] so that their remains behind of that
consultation money receaved by me before December 1673 about
9 rix dollars and some more, out of which
For Loydes Warning to a careles world from T. Broun, 15 pence.
For seing Marriage a la mode acted, for my selfe
and Mr. J. Wood, a leg dollar.
For M.A. Antoninus his Meditations on himselfe, 30 pence.
The nixt money I made use of was 32 lb. Scots in ij rix dollars[688]
receaved by me from George Patersone the wright for his house maill before
Whitsonday last 1673, the other aught lb. of the 40 lb. being allowed to
him in ane accompt of work.
[687] This works out at about 4s. 10 3/4 d. for each leg dollar.
[688] Dollar 58 2/11d.
To on Lilias Darling in charity, 12 pence.
Given to my wife on the 3 of Januar 1674, 6 merks.
Payed in Ja. Haliburtons with Mr. Gabriell Semple, 21 shiling.
Item, on the 5 of January 1674 to give in hansell
being hansell Monday, 21 marks.
Item, with Mr. Robert Lauder, clerk at Dumfries, 25 shiling.
To Mr. Peirsone for writing the Observes out of the
old books of parl. secret councell and sederunt, 4 merks.
To criple Robin, a 6 pence.
To him who copied Mckeinzies Criminalls 1 tome in
compleat payment to him, 2 merks.
Item, for a book anent the education of young
gentlemen, 33 shiling.
In Sandy Bryson's, 9 pence.
To the contribution for the prisoners amongs the
Turks, a mark.
To Will Sutherland, 7 pence.
Given to Walter Cunyghame for keiping our gounes, a dollar.
Given to my wife on the 23 of february 1674, the 50 mk.
in ij dollars and a halfe.
For Lucas speech, the votes and adresses of the
house of commons and the relation of the engagements
of the fleets in 1673, 14 pence.
To Thomas Broun for Parkers Reprooff to the
Rehearsall transp., 6 shillings stg.
To him for the Rehearsall transprosed. 2d part, 28 shilling.
On mum with Mr. R. Forrest, 21 pence.
Upon sweities, 4 pence.
On win at Rot. Gilbert's bairnes christning, 24 pence.
For Fergusone against Parker about Grace and
morall vertue, 32 shilings.
For the Art of complaisance, 16 shil.
For the Articles of Peace, 2 shil.
Item, with Mr. Rot. Wemyss, 12 shiling.
To the Kirk Deacon for a yeirs contribution in
March 1674, 2 rix dollars.
Spent with Mr. William Ramsay, 5 pence.
For the Proclamations against duells, and that
about the E. of Loudon's annuity, and upon
sundrie other uses, a mark.
With Muire of Park, 9 pence.
Given to hir, my wife, to give to Arthur Temple ane
English croun which belonged to Mr. John Wood.
To my wife to buy a petticoat of cesunt[689] taffety, 4 dollars.
For Gudelinus and Zoesius deffendis, 29 pence.
Upon win with Mr. Mathew Ramsay, a mark.
Given to my wife on the 13 of April 1674, 13 Ib. 10 sh.
[689] Query, 'seasoned.'
To my wife to help to buy hir cow, for which she gave 20 Ib. Scots,[690]
and which 13 Ib. 10s. Scots just compleited and exhausted the 450, 13 Ib.
10 shil. merks receaved by me from my father on the 20 of februar last
1674. As for the other 6 Ib. 10 shillings that rested to perfit the price
of the cow, I gave that out of the other money I had besyde me.
[690] Price of a cow.
A dollar and a halfe that was owing me by Rot. Craw, and was repayed by him
to me, was given to my wife to buy lyning for my new black cloath
breatches.
Payed for 4 limons, 16 pence.
For the pamphlet called the Spirit of the Hat, 6 pence.
In drinkmoney for making my new cloaths, a mark.
Given to my wife, tua dollars.
Given to hir to pay for linnen bed sheits bought by hir, a dollar.
Given in the contribution anent the burnt houses, a dollar.
For the book of rates of the custome house of Rome, 8 pence.
The nixt money I made use of was 6 dollars given me in consultation by the
toune Threasurer of Edr., on the 23 of Aprill 1674, when we consulted with
my Lord Advocat about the rebuilding of brunt and ruinous houses
with stone. Out of which
For a discourse by L'Estrange upon the Fischery, 6 pence.
Of boull maill, 6 pence.
For my dinner on sunday with Mr. Wm. Patersone in Guines, 2 shillings.
Au commencement du mois de May j'avois cent marks d'argent en vingt et
trois thalers Imperiaux deposez chez moi par Monsieur Le Bois quand il
alloit hors cette ville-cy, a fin les lui rendre a son retour [je les
rendu.][691] De cette monnoye je pris premierement.
[691] Interlined.
For a sword belt, 22 pence.
To Jo. Nasmith for morning drinks, etc., 15 pence.
Of boull maill, 6 pence.
In W. Cunyghames at the Linktoun of Abbotshall, a groat.
To my Lord Abbotshall, and given by him to Tom Gairdner, 6 pence.
For a quart of win in Mr. George Ogilbies of Kirkcaldy, 40 pence.
To David Colyear, a groat.[692]
With Mr. Lundy, Minister at Dysert, and others, 33 shill.
To the beggers, 3 pence.
To Tom Gairdner, a groat.
To George Gairdner, 6 pence.
For 2 oranges, a groat.
For Lentuli Dubia Decisa, a dollar.
To the beggers at sundry tymes, 6 pence.
With Androw Young, halfe a mark.
With Rot. Campbell, apothecar., 6 pence.
To Hary Wood, Mr. W.R.'s man, 20 pence.
With Mr. Wm. Ramsay in James Haliburtons, 12 pence.
For my part of the dinner on Sunday at the West Kirk, 16 pence.
For a horne comb, 6 pence.
For Andrews morning drinks 19 dayes and some other things, 25 pence.
To Comisar Aikenhead's masons, a shilling.
[692] See note, p. 255.
Woila comment je depencay
ces cent marks pour quelles
je demeure debtour an
Monsieur Le Bois.[693]
[693] In margin: Cette monnoye lui est payé comment il apparoistra cy
dessous.
Then on the 13 of June 1674 my father and I compted, and we found I had
receaved all my annuities due præceeding Martinmas 1672, and that the last
money I got was 450 merks on the 20 of february last 1674, and which
compleited that quarter of my annuity which ran from Lambes 1672 till the
Martinmas theirafter; then we considered that I was owing him ane years
rent and maill of my house, viz. 20 pounds sterling from Whitsonday 1673
till Whitsonday last past in 1674 (all the former years maill being payed
to him, as is marked supra). Then we proposed the deduction of on of 6 of
the annuel rents imposed by the act of parliament made in 1672[694] for the
space of a year, viz., from Mertinmas 1672 till Mertinmas 1673, which tuo
particulars of the maill and the retention being deducted, viz., 20 lb.
sterling for a years maill being 240 lb. Scots or 360 merks being allowed
my father and 150 merks being retained by him as the deduction due off 900
merks, which is the halfe years annuity from Mertinmas 1672 till Whitsonday
1673, which tuo particulars makes 510 merks of my 900 merks; wheirupon
their rested to be given me of the said 900 merks 390 merks, which soume I
only receaved the forsaid 13 day of June in money and gave my father a
discharge of the haill 900 merks due to me by him as half a years annuity
from Mertinmas 1672 till Whitsonday 1673, bearing alwayes that deduction
was given him conforme to the act 1672, and in regard he seimed unwilling
to give me any discharge in writing of my house maill to be in my custody,
he shewed me in his minute book of receipt that he had marked he had such a
day got payed him by me 240 lb. Scots as a year maill of my house fra
Whitsonday 1673 till Whitsonday 1674, as also in another place wheir he hes
written doun the receipt from me of 480 lb. Scots as being 2 years maill of
my house, viz. from Whitsonday 1671, which was my entry, till Whitsonday
1673; and which memorandum is all I have for a discharge to show my
payment: only he affirmed their was no hazard in regard he was to name me
on of his executors with the rest of my brothers. But in regard
thesse 3 years I had possest I had never given him in any accompt of my
debursements on the said house, in glasse windows, broads or others, he
ordered me to give him in the compt theirof that he might pay it me.
[694] In granting a supply of 864,000 lbs. Scots to Charles II.,
assessed on the land rent according to the valuations, the
Parliament, 'considering it just that personall estates of money
should beir some proportion of the burden,' enacted 'that every
debtor owing money in the kingdom' should for one year, in payment
of their annual-rents (interest) for that year 'have reduction in
their own hands of one sixt pairt thereof,' and pay only the other
five parts. The legal rate of interest was six per cent.
To my wife, a dollar.
Given also to hir on the 18 of June 1674 to buy a
suite of french stripped hangings with, which
stood 10 pounds sterling in pairt of payment of
the same, 6 lb. sterling, 6 lb. sterl. or 110 mks.
At the well besyde Comiston, 24 pence.
For my horse hyre to Bervick, ij shill. ster.
To Mr. Duncan Forbes for doubling[695] my Lord Hadington's
reduction of Athelstanford, halfe a dollar.
Given to Comisar Monro for reading the bill about
the minister of Athelstanford's pershuit, a dollar.
For the post of a letter from S.A.R. of Waughton, 10 pence.
To Ja. Broun's lad for brushing my hat, 40 pennies.
Given in with Knocks bill to the Lo.s of Thesaury
for seing Skelmurlyes signator, a dollar.
To the woman who keiped my niece Mary Campbell, a dollar.
For raising and signeting the summonds of reduction
in my Lord Abotshall's name, against the
minister of Athelstanford, a dollar and a halfe.
Spent with James Carnegie, 21 pence.
With Mr. Wm. Morray and others, 20 pence.
For black mourning gloves, 28 pence.
Given to my wife, a dollar.
Given hir to pay the harne[696] with which she lined
hir hangings and for threid and cords to them, 6 rix dollars.
With Walter Pringle, a mark.
For a triple letter from S.A.R., 15 pence.
With Ja. Inglis and others, 4 pence.
With Mr. John Eleis, 16 pence.
[695] Copying.
[696] Coarse cloth.
Item, on the 10 of Julie 1674, payé a Monsieur Le Bois
treize thalers Imperiales in compleit payment de ces cent
marks, this being joyned to the dix thalers payé à lui in
the beginning of June last, 13 dollars.