Series 3 > Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624

AYR BURGH ACCOUNTS
Dean of Guild, .
1540-41. Discharge
The glazier’s pension for 1540 and 1541, £2. For ropes, olive-oil
(at 3s. per chopin) and leather for the bells, 8s. For timber,
£l, 17s. 8d. For candle, to play on the organs during winter (3 lb.
each winter at 6d. per lb.), 3s. For mending the kirk-floor at Yule
in 1540 and 1541, 7s. 4d. To the slaters, for repairing the kirk and
choir, in work and materials, £2, 5s. 2d. For glass-work in the
choir, 14s. 6d. For minor repairs in the kirk, 3s. 2d. For an in¬
strument of the guild-entries, 4d. The Dean of Guild’s fee (for
1540), £2. Total, £9, 19s. 2d.
Balance due, £41, 2s. 2d., plus 5 merks (£3, 6s. 8d.) for the guild-
entry of the late James Cunynghame.
Work,1 ° The late James Cunynghame, Master of Work, 1540-41
(audited Feb. 6, 1541/2)
Charge
(281;.) From Treasurer Bannatyne, £3, 6s.
Discharge
Expended on the town’s works, £3, 6s.
Quit.
1541-42?1* Geokge Wallace, Treasurer, 1541-42
(audited Feb. 6, 1541/2, and July 18, 1544)1
Charge
(zyv., 28r., The property, for Mart. 1541 and Whit. 1542, with the burgh-
29f ) mail and the fishings of Ayr and Doon for Whit, and Mart. 1542,
£187, 9s. 8d. Doubling of feus—the merkland of the Bank (4s.)
and the ten-shilling land of Holmishill (3s. 4d.)—7s. 4d. Three
grassums, £43, Is. 8d. Two burgess-entries at 5 merks each,
£6, 13s. 4d. A hogshead of the town’s wine, sold to Robert Boy-
man, £3. Arrears of last Compt, £112, 17s. 6d. Bannatyne’s
balance as Treasurer (1539-41), £5, 4s. lid. Total, £348, 14s. 5d.
1 This account is in two sections. One, running from Michaelmas 1541
to the day of the Compt for 1540-41 (Feb. 6, 1541/2), was presented on that
day; the other, covering the remainder of the year, was audited along
with the other accounts for 1541-42. I have thrown the two accounts
together as one.