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.

All which expenses being cast up they just make up and amount to 300 merks and 19 rix dollars, to which adde the 4 rix dollars of the wholle 600 mks. that ware not payed, their is spent 400 mks., and their rests behind 200 mks.

Out of which Imprimis: 

On the 4 of May 1674 when I went to Ed’r., and
  stayed their till the 14 of May, during all that
  tyme spent according to the accompt of it particularly
  set doune in another paper besyde me, 10 dollars. 
Item, payed for a cow,[705] 34 lb.  Scots. 
Donne a ma femme et emprunte d’elle de Rot.  Craw, a dollar. 
Item, spent with Mr. Alex’r.  McGil and Captain
  Crawfurd in Kirkcaldy, 3 lb. ij shil.  Scots. 
Item, payed to the woman Mary[2] for hir years fie
  when she went away on the 24 of May 1675, 8 rix dollars. 
For seing the lionness and other beasts at Kirkcaldy, 12 pence. 
Donne a ma femme, 29 pence. 
Item, given hir more to pay the other woman’s
  fee,[706] 3 dollars and a halfe.

    [705] Price of a cow.

    [706] Apparently his maidservants.

Receaved from John Broun, elder, wool seller, 40 lb.  Scots on the 12 of June 1675, and that for a years maill of the low chamber and sellar possest by him from me, viz., from Witsonday 1674 till Whitsonday last 1675, and wheirof I gave him a discharge.

For 2 proclamations, 3 pence. 
To Henry Mensen for cutting my hair, 30 shil. 
For a quarter’s payment with my man[707] begun on the
  22 of June 1675 to the Master and doctor of Kirkcaldy
  scooll for learning him to wryte better, to
  read Latin, etc., 32 shilings Scots. 
On the 19 of July 1675 given a la servante
  Joannette Smith qui alloit avecque mon fils 100 merks
  ainez a Londres par mer pour leur d’espences and 9 shill.
  du voiage, six livres sterling, ings sterling. 
Donne a la dite servante pour ellememe, a dollar. 
To Mr. Tennent, skipper of the ship pour leur
  fraughts,[708] 35 shillings sterling. 
Spent at Kirkcaldy on Rhenish with Rot.  Fothringhame
  that day, 44 shilings. 
Payed for fraught from Kingborne, 8 pence. 
Spent with Sir Ja.  Stainfeild and Sam.  Moncreiff, 39 pence. 
For the 3’d tome of Alciats Commentar on the Digests, 48 pence. 
For the Governement of the tongue, 12 pence. 
For botle aill, 4 pence. 
For a solen goose, 29 pence. 
Upon a mutskin of seck with Raploch and Camnetham, 10 pence. 
For 4 fraughts from Leith to Kingb., 16 pence.

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