Series 1 > Records of a Scottish cloth manufactory at New Mills, Haddingtonshire, 1681-1703

THE NEW MILLS CLOTH MANUFACTORY 233
12 balls Spanish wooll sent per William Bells ship 17th
May 1700 extendeing with charges to <£’4048 : 3 the
same appears alsoe per coppy book of letters 1st June
1700 ^4048: 3: 0
16 balls do per John Matheis ship 12th July
1700 which lykwayes appears per copy
book of letters 13th Jully to amount to
Ane article of loss on <£’6520 remitted on
Roterdam at l per cent, per said account
current .....
Postage of letters
2 protests on Sir Robert Hamiltone’s
bill and postage letters .
Interest of <£*3300 from 1st March to 1st
May | per cent. . . . •
Booked in
Journal p. 61.
£?4868: 5: 0
1: 6: 6
12:10
6:15: 0
28 balls
£8951:19 : 0
To give credet to James Foullis for the 2 parcells of goods
sent which are not as yet booked viz:—
10 boxes of Castile soap with ane peaper parcell of ane journall
and leidger amounteing to with charges as per book of jj16l
letters 11th May 1700 . . . £76:12:8
6 casks of Gallipoli oyll shipt aboard the
Croune of Leith, James Whyt, master,
for Leith about 5th June 1700 with com-
missione and charges as per coppy book
letters 22nd June last extending to . 178: 5:8
£254:18:4
Orders to notice the protestatione putt up at the instance
of Anna Keith againest the Company or any other.
Orders to lay befor the next generall meeting that the
Spanish wooll is rysing and therfor that at least ther be
comissioned 40 balls Spanish wooll. Geo: Clark.
Edinburgh, 15th February 1701. ueU’srepon
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David Maxuell reports that the Company’s contract with cardmaker.