Series 1 > Diary and general expenditure book of William Cunningham of Craigends ... kept chiefly from 1673 to 1680

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1674] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK
me, amounting to about 410 lb., according to accompt most
favourable for him, I promising him to give him back 50 M.
if I could make the sd 410 lb. out of the cropt, and also q*
more I could make of it to give to him also. But the sd 50
M. being to be given down of my own, I promised only in case
he would goe this May and leave the towne. And if he would
stay still, and keep a quarter qrof I made ane offer I would
only lend him 100 lbs. worth of his cropt, and give him nothing
down. I say having gotten the said cropt, and being to sett
at leist the other 3 quarters of the towne, on the said 24 of
August I agreed with one John Murdie, who dwells in a maill-
ing neir by which he holds of my Lord Glencairne, I agreed
with him, I say, for one quarter of it, being the half of the
Westmost half, though that half be not yet divided. The rent
we agreed upon was for stock and teind 5 bolls meill, 50 M.
money, half at Martimas, half at next Whit Sunday, six
poultry fowlls, the half of the cesse, and his dews to the mill,
being the 20 peck mill thicking, and mill stone heading. And
his proportion of grassing the miliar’s 2 ky, but I to relieve
him of all teind. He is to have his proportion of the houses
as well as the land, and because the houses are out of case, he
to have one boll down the first year : As also in case this yeir’s
fodder be not eaten in the towne, so that he want his propor¬
tion of the soill, he is to have another boll, or 10 mk. down.
October 16, 1674.—I completed the paymt of Hugh Muir’s
compt. Having on the 3d of August given him 200 M.,I gave
him 81 lb. 10 sh. on the sd 16 of Octr, which, with 18 lb. 10s.,
makes 100 lb. The whole rest of the compt amounting to
102. 06. 10., which 2 lb. 6s. lOd. I got down, And the 18 lb. 10s.
I keept from him at my wife’s desire for some plenishing he
got of Cuninghamheid’s; so I became Cuninghamheid’s debtour
for the sd. 18 lb. 10s., and shall pay him whenever his use
requires it, I mean the first money that shall be given out for
him.
Octr 23, 1674.—I payed John Fleming all his fies, he
having been my servant from Mart: 1670 till Whits: 1674, the
first 2 years and a-half at 4 lb. only a half year, the next half
year at 5 lb., the last at 6 lb. I had one way and other while
he was with me payed him one 4 lb., and some more also, but