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

OF THIRDS OF BENEFICES
169
Robert Innes); price of 24 b. victual for ferms of Bogsyde,
£48 (George Grant); annual of Blackfriars from barony of
Abirchirdour, third of chaplainry of Stanywellis and mails
of half of Pettinseir, £14, 13s. 4d. (William Innes of that
ilk); third of parsonage of Abirlowir (Mr. Bernard Lesley
and Mr. Alexander Lesley, his fermorer) ; thirds of vicar¬
ages of Elgin and Innerness, £8 (deceased Mr. William
Hepburne, dean of Cathnes); third of chaplainry of Logy
(sir Nicol Tulloch); third of St. Michael’s chaplainry in
Innerness (sir Patrick Andersoun); third of St. Katharine’s
chaplainry there (sir Gilbert Duff); price of 25 b. 2£ p.
victual of third of deanery of Murray, £50, 6s. 8d. (John
Hay of Park) ; for teind salmon of half of the fresh water of
Fyndorne and teind sheaves of Balnagett, Lyngestoun, half
of Brownis Cruik and Knok, pertaining to archdeaconry of
Murray, £37, 16s. 8d. (Sir Alexander Dunbar of Cumnok);
for teind sheaves of Manys of Dernway, £6 (John, some¬
time earl of Sutherland); third of the seven chaplainries
paid out of the earldom of Murray, for 1561-2, £28, 4s. 5^d.
(deceased George, earl of Huntlie, tacksman of the said
earldom, who was forfeited, and his chamberlains); and
the following persons still at the horn from 1561:—^Leonard
Lesley (Abirlour), Peter Lesly (Rothes), sir John McFaill
(Lundylie [i.e., Londychtie]), Thomas Cuming (Alter),
Muriel Calder (Brayaven), William Innes of that ilk (Freiris
Hauch and Masondieu), George Grant (Bogsyde), sir
William Gourlay (Petty), sir John Nicolsoun (Lagane),
[blank\ (‘ Sanct Johnne the Logy ’), Mr. Alexander Dunbar
(archdeaconry of Murray), sir James Douglas (Hill of Elgin
and St. Katharine’s chaplainry), Thomas Cuthbert and
Agnes Ross (Friars’ water of Inverness) and sir Gilbert
Duff (St. Katharine’s chaplainry of Inverness). Total,
£811, 17s. 5d.
Rests in Ross, Sutherland, Cathyness and
Strathnaver
Third of vicarage of Weik (sir Alexander Mernys,
‘ factour at the leist intromettour ’); part of third of