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.