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

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CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS
[1680
Eod: die.—I sold to John Dick the cow belonging to Umql
James Brock, which I seized for the year’s rent he died in the
debt of. John Dick is to pay me 19 Mks. and 40d. for her
betwixt & Whitsunday next.
April 24, 1680.—I sold to Gavin Wakinshaw in Achans
2 bolls of his horse corn 1679 (having lent my father the other
two, to be payd again in as much corn some other year), for
which Gavin is to pay me 5 pound the boll at the Fair of Glasgow.
Oct. 8, 1680.—I agreed with ane Hugh Steinstoun to be
my servant to enter at next Martimas. I am to give him ten
pound ilk half year, and two mks. half mk. for shoos. Ane
suit of livery to last him a whole year (if he stay so long); and
I conditioned also to give him 40s. Scots at his entry to help
him to a pair of boots. The 10 lb. and 2 mks. J mk. is all
the half year condition, and the suit of livery the whole
year’s.
At Pasley, October 27,1680.—The Commissioners of Excise
in the shire of Renfrew, being met that day, at the desire of
the Master of Rosse, to lay down some course for furnishing
the troop whereof he is Captain (then lying at Pasley) with
straw or hay, conforme to the Counsells Acte, dated October
7. 1680, whereof he produced ane Copy but no print extract.
The Commissioners did first appoint a moderate price for the
straw & hay (as the said Act appointed them), being 2s. for
the stane of straw and 30d. for the stane of hay, which was to
be payd by the troopers, or at least to be allowed in the Cesse
of such as furnished it, upon production of the troopers’ receipts.
After the public meeting there were 4 or 5 of the gentle¬
men, by advice of my Lord Dundonald, that spoke with Alexr
Miller & Robert Bowgg, two men in Pasley. And, in name
of the haill shire, showed a great willingness to the thing
conduced with these 2 men to keep a store-house in Pasley, &
provide straw to furnish the whole troop, compted at 60 horse,
as much as they should call for (not exceeding 8 stane a week
to the horse), always giving their credits for the quantity, for
which the shire is to pay the said two men at the rate of 30d.
the stane of straw, taking up their accounts conform to the
receipts, & that which they declare they got ready money for
(if it be within the said calculum). The bargain was made