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

[678] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK
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it with his, and payed me for it in Octr last). I say the sd 16
lb. compleits the price all but 28 Mks., which the sd John Shaw
now rests me.
Octr 13, 1677.—Robert Lyle in Auchenseall, his tack
being run out, and my father, since his turning liferenter, not
able to renew it without my consent, wee agreed that I should
take the entresse and consent to the tack with my father, and
for the entresse that I should pay my father a yearly duty
correspondent therto, so we concluded that for a new 19 year
tack, beginning with the cropt 1678, my father and I both
subscribing, the sd Robert should pay of entresse 500 M., and
20 pound at Marts 1677, or a rent for what of it remain then
unpayd. This I am to receive, and am for my father’s interest
to pay him 40 lb. yearly of augmentation so long as he should
live and the forsd tack continue together. I am to begin the
payment of the 40 lb. at Marts 1678 for the cropt 1678.
Jn. 1677.—My father made a new condition with me
anent the 300 Mks. rent which he pays me yearly out of the
lands reserved in liferent to him by my contract of marriage,
viz.: He gave me the fewe duty of the Ley, which is 200 Mks.
yearly, to pay so much of it, and the other 200 Mks. he pays
himself, getting always the 40 lb. of Thos. Lyle’s allowed as a
part of it. At Martimas 1677 I reed 300 Mks. of the forsd
entresse, as also 500 Mks. of Hugh Cochrane’s entresse, and
lent them both out, being 800 Mks., to Alexr Birsban for
a rent from the said Martimas. But because my father, at
my own direction, both received and gave them out, I omitted
to write them up in my Charge and Discharge at that time,
being myself at Edinburgh, but shall doe it yet afterwards, at
the next Martimas or some other time. Also I reed another
100 Mks. and 20 lb., inde 400 Mks. and 20 lb., of the sd
entresse at Whitsunday 1678, with half a year rent of the sd
100 Mks., so Robert Lyle rests me now only another 100 Mks.,
wherof I have his band bearing a rent from Marts last 1677.
Mat/ 1678.—I sold to Alexr Millar his own millne meall
1677, at 3 lb. 13s. 4d. the boll, being 8 bolls 3 firlots.
June 28, 1678.—What money I then put up in my compt
given to my wife, is over and above 30 lb. 10s. 6d. given her
also in satisfaction of so much depursed by her of house compt,