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ELECTION ACCOUNT
227
Writing Mr Morren, innkeeper, Beith, for two Noddies1 or other
carriages 3s. 4<1.
Express with ditto is.
Writing Mr Morren in answer to his message as to carriages js. 4<1.
Express with ditto is.
Paid incidents meeting with electors tonight 3s. 6d.
December 20
Going to Renfrew when the nomination of the two candidates took
place, boat and coach hire and incidents £2 ys. 6d.
Addressing various addresses 6s. 8d.
December 21
Writing Mr Frome, an elector at Beith, to go to the poll at Paisley on
Monday 3s. 4d.
Express with ditto to Beith is.
Paid William Dunsmore for attendance at and cleansing the parish
church on occasion of Mr Bontine’s public meeting there 55.
Paid incidents meeting with electors tonight 4s.
December 22
Addressing various addresses 3s.
Writing letter to be printed requesting electors to meet in committee
room on Monday morning at 8 o’clock
Paid for printing 60 copies 2s. 6d.
Addressing ditto 55.
Paid 5 men for delivering ditto in the town and country and for their
incidents 12s.
Paid incidents with electors tonight is.
December 24
Attending in church with my clerk during today’s polling £212s. 6d.
Paid hire of two carriages £2 11s.
Paid to placard holders £1.
Paid band for accompanying electors and non-electors to church and
for their services during the day and at night £1.
Paid officer for his various days trouble delivering addresses and for
his attendance at church during the polling £3.
1 Noddy—‘a light two-wheeled hackney-carriage, formerly used in Ireland and
Scotland’ (Oxford English Dictionary, vii, 176).
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Writing Mr Morren, innkeeper, Beith, for two Noddies1 or other
carriages 3s. 4<1.
Express with ditto is.
Writing Mr Morren in answer to his message as to carriages js. 4<1.
Express with ditto is.
Paid incidents meeting with electors tonight 3s. 6d.
December 20
Going to Renfrew when the nomination of the two candidates took
place, boat and coach hire and incidents £2 ys. 6d.
Addressing various addresses 6s. 8d.
December 21
Writing Mr Frome, an elector at Beith, to go to the poll at Paisley on
Monday 3s. 4d.
Express with ditto to Beith is.
Paid William Dunsmore for attendance at and cleansing the parish
church on occasion of Mr Bontine’s public meeting there 55.
Paid incidents meeting with electors tonight 4s.
December 22
Addressing various addresses 3s.
Writing letter to be printed requesting electors to meet in committee
room on Monday morning at 8 o’clock
Paid for printing 60 copies 2s. 6d.
Addressing ditto 55.
Paid 5 men for delivering ditto in the town and country and for their
incidents 12s.
Paid incidents with electors tonight is.
December 24
Attending in church with my clerk during today’s polling £212s. 6d.
Paid hire of two carriages £2 11s.
Paid to placard holders £1.
Paid band for accompanying electors and non-electors to church and
for their services during the day and at night £1.
Paid officer for his various days trouble delivering addresses and for
his attendance at church during the polling £3.
1 Noddy—‘a light two-wheeled hackney-carriage, formerly used in Ireland and
Scotland’ (Oxford English Dictionary, vii, 176).
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| Description | At head of title: Volume X. Edinburgh : Printed for the Scottish History Society by T. and A. Contable, 1965. Contents: E.W.M. Balfour-Mellville (1887-1963), a memoir / by D.B. Horn. -- Bagimond's roll for the diocese of Moray / edited by Charles Burns -- Accounts of the King's Pursemaster, 1539-1540 / edited by Athol L. Murray. -- Papers of a Dundee shipping dispute, 1600-1604 / edited by W.A. McNeill -- A scottish liturgy of the reign of James VI / edited by Gordon Donaldson -- Lists of schoolmasters teaching Latin, 1690 / edited by Donald J. Withrington -- Letters of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun and his family, 1715-1716 / edited by Irene J. Murray -- Sir John Clerk's observation on the present circumstances of Scotland, 1730 / edited by T.C. Smout -- A Renfrewshire election account, 1832 / edited by William Ferguson. |
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