Series 3 > Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624

AYR BURGH ACCOUNTS
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Discharge
Fees. Mr. Gavin Ross (Mart. 1541 and Whit. 1542), £8, 10s.
Schir Alexander Ker (same terms), £5, 8s. 8d. Mr. Patrick Ander-
soun (same terms), £10. Arrears due to him, £5, 5s. Mr. Peter
Broun (same terms), £5, 6s. 8d. Schir John Book, chaplain (by the
Bailies’ command), 10s. Stephen Prestoun, clerk (same terms), £4.
Alexander Mortoun, keeping the knock (same terms), £2. The
Provost, £5. The Treasurer, £2. George Gude, £3. For keeping
the hills, 6s. 8d. Total, £51, 7s.
Annuals. The Black Friars (Mart. 1541), £6. The Cruives of
Cree (Mart. 1541 and Whit. 1542), £8, 19s. Total, £14, 19s.
Travelling Expenses. Commissioners to Edinburgh, to raise
letters and summon the assize on the laird of Greenan, £12, 5s. 8d.
To ride to Edinburgh in the suit against the Black Friars, £2, 4s.
To run there, 6s. 8d. Three men, to ride to the Bishop of Glasgow,
£2,14s. To messengers bringing the Exchequer precept and letters
anent granaries, regraters and wapinschawing, 8s. 2d. To mes¬
sengers taking the town’s letters to Edinburgh, £l, 4s. 9d. To the
Treasurer, to ride to Lord Glencaim, 10s. Total, £19, 13s. 3d.
The Masters of Work. To Alexander Kennedy (1541-42), £5.
To Alexander and Thomas Kennedy (1541-42), £178, 2s. 5d. To
Robert Makmillane (1542-43), £l, 18s. 8d. Total, £185, Is. Id.
Legal and Official Expenses. Wax, 8d. Candle at the Yule
head-court, 2d. For instruments taken at the warding of thame in
the Tolbuith that wer awand dettis to the toun, 2s. Other instruments,
3s. 4d. For the Michaelmas commission and copies of letters,
10s. 2d. Expenses in the law-suit against the Black Friars, £3,2s. 4d.
For entering the bailies’ compt in the Exchequer rolls, 4s. Making
the town’s rental of the Whitsunday term, 2s. For the actis of parlia¬
ment in prent, 8s. Total, £4, 12s. 8d.
Hospitality and Festivities. For the Michaelmas collation,
13s. 4d. For a disjone to the Provost of Edinburgh (in connexion
with the laird of Greenan’s case), 15s. For a pewter plate lost
when the King was last in Ayr, 5s, Total, £l, 13s. 4d.
Expenses of the War of 1542. To 7 messengers bringing letters
of warning, of taxation for the Borders, of fiery cross, orders to ship
the Irishmen to Scotland, discharge from the raid of Gladsmuir, and
the order to rally to the raid of Lauder, 14s. For copies of these
letters, 8s. 6d. Making out the first two months’ stent-rolls and
taking them to Edinburgh, and drawing up the roll of men for the
raid of Lauder, £l, 2s. To a boy who went to George Gude to get
Treasurer,
1541-42-
(28f., 29W.)