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

OF THIRDS OF BENEFICES
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Menzeis of Rannoch, tacksman thereof, because the parish
was entirely laid waste ; part of third of ministry of
Trinity friars of Abirdene, ordained to be taken out of the
queen’s lands of Cromar because it ‘ is tane in agane to the
propertie and thair maid compt of,’ £6, 13s. 4d.
In the hands of the following persons put to the horn in
1561 and ‘ sensyne forfaltit and thair haill landis and gudis
applyit to the quenis majesties use, quhairthrow the
comptare can gett na payment thairof nor thai aucht na
langare to be compted restand ’ :—John Gordoun, some¬
time of Fynlater, kirk of Fordyce, £117, 13s. 4d. ; deceased
George, earl of Huntlie, parsonages of Clatt and Rynie, to
which he was factor ; James Gordoun of Blalok, his teinds,
£5 ; John Gordoun of Carnburrow, teinds of Cabroch,
£26, 13s. 4d.
Third of silver of deanery of Abirdene for 1561, in the
hands of deceased Robert Erskyn; part of mails of
‘ bowplaces ’ of Dumfermling for 1561, because the earl of
Arrane intromitted with £43, 10s. 7d. thereof and the
compter got defeasance of only £2, 13s. 10d., £41, 6s. 9d. ;
third of Martinmas mails of parish of Dunfermling and
Kynnedderis for 1561, the whole mails for that term,
extending to £155, 6s. 8d., having been intromitted with
by the said earl and his factors, because the queen ‘ takkis
hir haill full thrid by the saidis parochynnis ’ and the third
of the earl’s intromission with the two-thirds should there¬
fore be refunded to the abbot or at least allowed to him in
this account, £51, 15s. 6jd. ; paid to the keeper, receiver
and ‘ mettare ’ of the girnels of Fyiff, £20 ; for the girnels
of Perthschyre, £20.
Total, £3,559, 16s. llfd.
Officers’ Fees
In Orknay and Zetland, to William Hendersoun, mes¬
senger, for his labours and expenses, £20 ; in Ross, Suther¬
land, Cathyness and Straithnaver and other bounds of
Inverness beyond the Stokfurde, to William Cunynghame,
Alexander Cuninghame and William Bayn, messengers,
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