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.


