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,


