Series 3 > Accounts of the collectors of thirds of benefices, 1561-1572

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ACCOUNTS OF COLLECTORS
the queen having her full third of the meal of the abbey
assumed elsewhere in Dolourschyre, so that the third of
the earl’s intromission in the two-thirds ought to be re¬
funded to the abbot, 2 f. 2§ p. ; teinds of a quarter of
Pentoskane,1 8 b.; of the Muretoun of Montrose,1 6 b. ;
given out of the victual of Arbroth to the poor as alms,
wont to be given of old, 19 b. 1 f. ; part of teind meal of
Newgrange,1 8 b.; part of teind meal of the kirk of Kyl-
patrik,1 1 c. 9 b. 1 f. 1^ p. ; third of meal of parsonage of
Wigtoun, because the whole meal thereof ‘ is less riddin
this yeir,’ 7 b.; teind meal of quarter of [blank] in parish
of Kirkmadin, assumed in third of Quhythyrne, because
these lands lay waste unlaboured, 4 b. ; allowed for
‘ inlaik ’ of the girnels of Angus, 1 c.; teind meal of
quarter of Manis of Gartscube in parish of Kilpatrik,
assumed in third of Paislay, because it lay waste ar|d the
tenants ‘ for povertie left the samin unlawbored swa that
nolder the lard of Luss, proprietare, gatt the males nor the
quenis majestic the teindis,’ 4 b. ; part of meal of third of
parsonage of Stobo,1 10 b. ; third of meal of vicarage of
Stobo, for non-payment of which Mr. Ninian Dowglas,
4 aid vicar thairof,’ was put to the horn for both 1561 and
1562; to James Nicolsoun, 1 c.; for ‘inlaik’ of the girnels
of Dunkeld and Perth, 10 b. and for ‘ mawing of the
medois ’ thereof, 1 b.2
[Abbey of Melrose:] Taken up by the laird of Wamfray
from Eleistoun,3 3 c.; to thirteen monks as their portions,
1 c. 10 b.; ‘ gevin downe ’ of old to Robert Wallace by
deceased James, commendator of the abbey, of the ferms
of Priourwode, ‘be reason of the harness of the ground,’
3 b.; ferm meal of Sowtare croft, Cartleyis and Newfurd-
hauch, which paid ferm in the old rental and are since set
in feu to the laird of Buccleuch for money, with which the
compter has already charged himself, 2 c. 12 b. ; ferm
meal of Aid Melrose, likewise now set in feu to Robert
Ormestoun for money, 15 b. ; to the gardener of Melrose,
1 As in 1561.
2 In the MS. this item appears among the series of Melrose items.
3 As here.