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

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MONYMUSK PAPERS
refusal thereof to the people within the jurisdiction, they
always giving the same price & finding the same security
(if they don’t buy with ready money) as persons without
the jurisdiction. And prohibites and discharges the whole
tenants and others in the jurisdiction from making meal
themselves of their old corns, but that the same be wholly
reserv’d for seed to themselves & those that think proper
to buy from them within the jurisdiction of this Court;
and that under the penalty of three pounds Scots for each
boll which they shall otherwise dispose of.
Rob Grant, Baillie.
Pat: Thomson, Clerk.”
[15 Oct., 1744 ; putting horses in Park of Pitfichie.]
[15 Oct., 1744 ; assault.]
[12 Nov., 1745 ; no business, court adjourned.]
Court of the Lands of Monymusk, Barronies of Pitfichie
& Auquhorsk, heretably belonging to Sir Archibald Grant,
Bar1, holden at Kirktown of Monymusk, upon the sixteenth
day of June, Jajviic and forty six years by John Adam in
Tombeg, baillie, Mr Patrick Thomson, schoolmaster at
Monymusk, clerk, William Lunan in Inver, officer.
Suits calld, Court lawfully fenc’d & affirmed.
The said day compeared sd William Lunan and gave in
an account of the exact length of the dam to be built for
the New Mill upon Don by the tenants of Monymusk.
Compeared the said day William Duthy in Tillifourie,
James Scot in Pitmuny, George Rough in Cowley,
Alexander Sympson in Todlachy, William Wat in Cowley,
Peter Elmslie in Todlachy, Robert Adamson in Kirktown,
Alexander Thomson in Cowley, Alexander Murray in
Pitmuny, Robert Donald in Cowley, William Donald,
Younger there, Peter Clarke, Elder, in Kirktown who
unanimously refus’d to bear any part, further that they
would renounce their tacks, rather than build any part of
the said dam.
John Adam, Bailie.