Series 3 > Selections from the Monymusk Papers, 1713-1775

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MONYMUSK PAPERS
nine years, which is hereby declaired to be theire entry
yrto, and shall warrand this set to the saids tenents at all
hands. For the which sett and oyrs above written
the said James Crombie, William Donald & Elspet Watt,
by these presents faithfully bind and obleidge ymselves
each one for theire respective duties after set down, theire
heires, exer8, successors, intromitters w4 theire goods and
geir whatsomever, thankfully to content, pay and deliver
to Sr Archibald Grant, heritor, or to the said Rob Grant,
theire heires or assignies yearly during the forsd tack, and
having warrand from the sd Sr Archibald All and
haill the sume of fiftie four pound, thrittein shilling,
four pennies Scots money, one thrid part of wch sume being
eighteen pound, four shilling and five pennies mony forsd
being theire respective proportions of mony dutie at
Martimas and Whytsunday, after each crop, with the
number and quantitie of sixtie eight bolls of good and
sufficient ferm meal, betwixt Yool and Candlemas yearlie,
one thrid of wch quantity of meal being twentie two bolls,
ten pecks and two-thrid parts of a peck is theire respective
proportions of meal payable by each yearly for the first
years of theire tack, and for the last year of theire sd
possession, by and attour the above quantities each is to
pay, six firlots more for every plough of the fowr, pro¬
portionally amongst ym, and to carrie the samen quantities
of meal to Aberdeen, or any place of the like distance,
upon theire own horses, seeks, charges and expences, and
deliver the samen to any person or persons, having warrand
to receive it, with the number and quantitie of sixteen
bolls good and sufficient merchant stuff bear, each of theire
proportions yearly yrof, being five bolls, five pecks and
one thrid part of a peck betwixt Candlemas and the
Rooday, and to carrie the same as above, with one boll of
corn w4 ye straw yearly, one thrid whereof being five pecks
and one thrid part of a peck, w4 one leat of peats yearly
to each, payable in peats, and another leat of peats con¬
verted to mony at fowr pound Scots proportionally amongst
ym, with six cappons and twelve hens each, and other six
cappons and twelve hens for the fourth plough yearly pro-