Imprimis, for a pair of net leather shoes, 3 shillings. Item, in Painston's with Mr. Todridge, 48 shill. Item, given to my wife partly to pay Margaret Neilsons fie and partly for other uses, 3 dollars. For a triple letter its post for Rome, 15 pence. Item, for seing the play called the Spanish Curate, halfe a dollar. Item, for cherries to Kate Chancellor their, halfe a dollar. Item, theirafter in Aikman's, 14 pence. Item, at the kirk door, halfe a mark. Item, spent when I was at Liberton kirk, 2 shillings. Item, for Thomas the Rymer's Prophecies, 4 pence. For the Lords answer in Fairlies case, a dollar. Item, given to my wife to compleit Margaret Neilsons fie during the haill tyme of hir service besides what was payed hir formerly, 6 dollars and a mark. 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, 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, acorné, 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.