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MASTERTON PAPERS
1696 ’96. Thomas Horn in parkm. dyd Jar; Mr. Jon Keirie of
gogar dyed 9 may; John his son, 18 May ; Earle of Roxburgh,1
mary muddie my sisters dochter, dyd 23 Septr; Sr Hugh
paterson 2 dyed octr; my dead son born 1 der; Cropt 96, a cold
bad summer, a rany late harvest, a great frost in August that
mutch’of ye vitail was frosted, and mutch to shear at Christmas.
The bear 12 lib ye boll, meal 10lib, pease and beans 20 mrks
ye boll. The pryces fell at Lambass 40 s. boll, meal and malt,
mr. Rot. Geddie at Dollar dyd martch 96.
’97. John paton of Bellilisk dyed at London Jarii; Lady
Ardoch dyed June;3 Vm Heggin dyed 5 febr; Da. Horn, Apr;
Francis Borthwick dyd mart; major Bruce Lady dyd. The
general peace betwixt france and confederates proclaimed,
provost Russel dyed martch; Tho. Reid in grein dyd novr;
Sr Ch. Haggat of pitfirren, Geo. Muray of pittincreiff, dyed;
rebuilt corn barn; mr. Turnbul dyd may; Bear 8lib, meal at
candlmass 10 mrk; pease and beans 8lib; fra vhits meal 10lib,
pease and bear 12Ub.
’98. Jon Proud dyed Jar. ; Vm Bruce, old constable in
Clackm., dyd Jar; old Vm Alexr in Kennet dyd febr; John
Hervison of Barachne dyd 10 Febr; Earle of Crawford dyd
martch; 4 Lord Reath 5 dyd martch; Vm Vightman in gartary
18 Apr.; Tho. inglis, officer of Clackm, dyd 18 may; Earle
of Airlie 6 dyd June; Arskine, Laird of Din,7 dyd may; Jean
mayn in All. dyd Agust; Elspet miller, Geo. Coustons wyfe,
dyed 30 Ag.; John Shaw of Craighead dyd oct; Laird of
Lunde novr; Baylie Johnston in sterling, novr; a late rainy
harvest, but ye vitail in end all weil won. The bear at mrt.
’98, lllib boll; oat meal and malt at 12llb boll; pease meal 9lib;
1 Robert, fourth Earl of Roxburghe, died on his travels abroad at Brussels,
13th June 1696, in his nineteenth year.
2 Sir Hugh Paterson of Bannockburn, W.S., father of Sir Hugh noted below
(1701).—History of Society of IV. S.
3 Probably Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, Bart., first
wife of Sir William Stirling, second Knight-Bart. of Ardoch.
4 William, sixteenth Earl of Crawford and second Earl of Lindsay, died
6th March 1698.
6 Raith—Alexander Melville, elder son and heir of George, first Earl of
Melville, died s.p. Lord Raith, buried 1st April 1698.—Foulis’ Accounts.
6 James, second Earl of Airlie.
7 David Erskine of Dun, father of the judge of that name.