Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 eBook

John Lauder
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 528 pages of information about Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36.

Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 eBook

John Lauder
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 528 pages of information about Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36.
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, acorne, 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.

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