Series 3 > Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624

AYR BURGH ACCOUNTS
Treasurer, Public Hospitality. A dinner to the stenters, £l, 2s. For wine to
1544*45- the Earl of Argyle and the Bishop of Glasgow in Ayr, 14s. 8d. For
the Michaelmas collation, 13s. 4d. Total, £2, 10s.
Office and Petty Expenses. Wax, 6d. Paper for the Compt, 3d.
Candles for the stenting, 3d. An instrument, 4d. Olive-oil for the
knock, 8d. To arl 2 wine-ships, 8d. To mend the Brig-yett, includ¬
ing timber, iron, stakes, wattles, turf and a key, 14s. lOd.
Total, 17s. 6d.
Military Expenditure. To Donald Campbell and John Lokhart,
in part-payment of the guns, £46. To Francy the gunnar, £l, 2s.
Taking the guns to the hills, Is. Coals for a fire there, 2s. 6d. To
John Blair, for his trumpet-drum at the raid of Wark, £5, 13s. For
Blair’s board, 13s. Timber to make a carriage at that raid, £2.
Taffetas for the town’s standard, and work on it, £2, 12s. lOd. A
bag for it, Is. Total, £58, 5s. 4d.
Special Watch. Keeping the ports till Michaelmas in time of
pest, £5, 18s. 4d. Keeping the ports 5 days after Whitsunday, 5s.
Keeping them during the Midsummer Fair, 8s. Keeping the Brig-
yett for 17 days after Midsummer, 17s. Total, £7, 8s. 4d.
Grand Total, £150, 17s. 7d.1
(33nJ ) Balance due, £45, 2s. Id. (Sums in arrear, £71, 10s. 4d.)
Dean of Guild, James Johnnesoun, Dean of Guild, 1544-45
I544’45' (audited Jan. 2, 1547/8)
Charge
{33v., 34r.) Balances not received from ex-Deans Lokhart (1541-42) and
Kennedy (1543-44). Ex-Dean of Guild Campbell’s balance (1542-
1543), £6, 14s. lOd. The Easter fines in 1545, £4. The hand-bells
in 1545, £l, 10s. Guild entries—4 at 10 merks, 3 at 5 merks and
3 at 5s.—in all, £37, 8s. 4d. Total, £49,13s. 2d.
Discharge
(34f-)- For 7 st. 1 lb. of iron to make bands for the kirk windows, and
working it, £3, 17s. lid. Sending twice to Paisley and once to
Kilwinning for the glazier, 6s. 4d. The glazier’s work on the
windows, £l, 13s. 4d. His fee, £l, 6s. 8d. For 6 quarters of iron
for the kirk doors (not yet received from John Feane, smith), 15s.
Olive-oil for the bells, 5s. Candles for the organ-loft, 2s. Strings
for the censers, 3s. 8d. For lime (6 pecks for Is.), sand and mixing
it, 2s. 8d. For drawing the town’s guns out of the kirk, 6d. To
1 Should be /150, 15s. 8d.