Series 6 > Perth Kirk Session books, 1577-1590

THE PERTH KIRK SESSION BOOKS: 1588
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of parliament to be extendit in all rigor upon them and that quhowso oft
soever thai be found culpabil heirin. (Fleitschers)29
Quhilk day comperit in presence of us minister and elders of the kirk
of Perth within the revestrie of the samyn the persones underwreittin viz
Robert Anderson, Adam Anderson, Patrik Blair, James Adamson, Patrik
Grant, Duncan Robertson, Patrik Sunning, Robert Mathow, Oliver Car
and Patrik Ray. Quhilk persones exponit schew and declarit that thai and
ilk ane of thame rexive30 for their awin partis hes for the godly zeal quhilk
thai have towardis the advansment of hospital of this burgh and for the
obtening and outquyking of the new confirmit gift of the hospital and for
the composition payit for the confirmation thereof passing of the great seals,
[18r] act of parliament, and uther chairgis and expensis maid thereanent, laid
the sum and gevin pledgis in wode of the sume of twa hundreth xiii £ vi
s viii d money, quhilk sume the saidis persones ar oblist to pay agane at ane
lang tyme bypast. And be resson of none payment making of the said sowme
their saidis pledgis ar to be comprysit for the samyn. In respect quhereof the
saidis persones haiffe and this day menit thame to us desyring that we suld
cause thame rexive for their awin partis to be repayit of the said sowmes for
the rehefe of their said pledgis. The quhilk desyr we haiffand found resson-
abil, heirfoir the minister and elders foirsaid of the said burgh commandis
and ordanis the maisters of the hospital of this burgh present and to cum
to content, satisfie and repay the foirsaid sowme of iiC xiii £ vi s viii d to
the foirsaid persones rexive ilk ane of thame their awin partis thereof, viz to
everie ane of thame, their airs, executores and assignas31 the sowme of xxi
£ vi s viii d for releife of their said pledgis and that of the reddiest fructis,
rends or emolumentis gottin or to be gottin in of the said hospital. As also
ordanis the saidis masteres of hospital present or to cum to pay to Mr Oliver
Colt advocat the sowme of fiftie nyne poundes four schillinges debursit be
him lykwyis concerning the obtaining of the gift of the hospital foirsaid.
Quhilkes sowmes being payit to thame and everie ane of the said debursers,
the samyn salbe thankfully allowit be us and our successores in the masteres
hospitals comptis present and to cum as foirsaid is.32
29 The session is displaying uncharacteristic forbearance: cf. 5 Mar. 1588.
30 An abbreviated form of‘respectively’, so that the phrase means ‘each and every one’.
31 A form of assignee, a term frequently found with ‘heirs and executors’, for one to whom
property is formally assigned.
32 Ratifrcation of the hospital charter awarded initially during the king’s minority (1569)
was an expensive proposition, and arrears of hospital rents would have made it impossible
without the voluntary pledges of these donors for the services of their advocate in
Edinburgh. They wish to ensure that their loans will eventually be repaid. The new charter
was in fact secured, dated 29 July 1587, and confirmed by an act of parhament (/IPS iii,
500-503, c. Ill; iii, 581, c. 81). Both charters are in Milne, pp. li-lvi, Ivi-lxvi.