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

OF THIRDS OF BENEFICES
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price of 5 bolls of oats at £l, 13s. 4d. the boll for ‘ inlaik ’
of the girnels of Fyiff and of 10 chalders oats ‘ gyrnellit
thairintill,’ taking half a boll to the chalder, £8, 6s. 8d. ;
for ‘ furnessing of my lord Arrane ’ for a year from [blank]
May 1562, taking £2 daily, £732 1; to Adam Gordoun, son
of George, sometime earl of Huntlie, £60.1
The Guard
To the guard 2 for the year from 1 January 1562/3 to
1 January 1563/4, £9,000 ; for palliasses,2 £303, 13s. 8d. ;
to the guard for the quarter January-March 1563/4, £2,200.
Pensions, Precepts
To David Murray, brother german of Sir Andrew Murray
of Arngosk, a pension of £333, 6s. 8d. ; Sir William Kirk¬
caldy of Grange, £250 ; Mr. John Gledstanis, licentiate in
the laws, £100 ; Adam Stewart, for the silver of his pension
out of the Charterhouse, £500 ; Mr. James Halyburtoun,
provost of Dundie, £500 ; Mr. Robert Grahame, canon of
Dunkeld, £46, 13s. 4d ; William, bishop of Dumblane, in
complete payment of 1000 merks which the late queen
owed to him, £366, 13s. 4d. ; the beadsmen of Glasgow, in
alms wont to be paid to them of old out of the common
kirks of Glasgow, £20 ; Thomas Stewart, burgess of Dundee,
the money of his pension (the victuals being already
allowed), £7 ; David Riccio, valet of the chamber, his
pension of 150 francs, in Scots money £75 ; John de
Spynaceo, Frenchman, to buy a horse, £40; Robert
Douglas, provost of Lynclowden, his pension, £200 ; the
beadsmen of Masondieu of [blank], in alms wont to be given
to them of old, £2 ; sir William Angus, priest of the chapel
royal, in his ‘ feall,’ £40 ; the ‘ pouer folkis ’ of the hospital
of Abirdene, £4 ; Robert Fraser, for his ordinary fee, £80 ;
John Wilsoun, servant ordinary to the ‘ quenis majesties
dammis,’ £15 ; Adam Forman, prior of the Charterhouse,
in part payment of the rest of the two-thirds thereof,
1 These entries appear among the payments to the guard on fo. 1057.
2 Printed in Maitland Club. Misc., I. i. 32.