Series 3 > Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624

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AYR BURGH ACCOUNTS
Annuals. The Black Friars’ alms (Mart. 1545 and Whit. 1546),
£12,10s. The annual of the Cruives of Cree, £8,19s. The Alloway
mill-acre, 6s. 8d. Total, £21, 15s. 8d.
To the Masters of Work. Alexander Kennedy, for his credit
balance in 1541-42, £21, 9s. Ojd. Alexander Farchar (1545-1546),
£4, 14s. 3d. Total, £26, 3s. 3£d.
For the late War. For a horse lost at the raid of Wark by one
of the bailies, £4.
The Plague. Revenues allocated to William Neisbit, kepar of the
town and furnissar of the seikfolkis upoun the mure in tyme of the pest—■
the Alloway barony-mail for Mart. 1545, £26, 10s.; the Alloway
mill-mail for the whole year, £40 ; Neisbit’s own rents, £8, 8s.;
the one burgess-entry and two grassums received this year, £31.
Mails of Mart. 1545, remitted because of the pest, £5, 10s. 2d.
Total, £111, 8s. 2d.
Ordinary Expenses. For two court-books, £l, 2s. For instru¬
ments, Is. 4d. For two pecks, 3s. 6d. For riding to the Governor,
£l, 2s. Total, £2, 8s. lOd.
Grand Total, £211, 9s. 6d.
Balance due, £5, 18s. lOd. (Sums in arrear, £37, 12s. 8d.)
i, Thomas Kennedy, Dean of Guild, 1545-46
(audited Jan. 2, 1547/8)
Charge
Balances not received from ex-Deans Lokhart (1541-42), Kennedy
(1543-44) and Johnnesoun (1544-45). The Easter fines in 1546, £4.
The hand-bells that year, £l, 10s. Total, £5, 10s.
Discharge
The glazier’s fee, £l, 6s. 8d. For mending the hand-bell and for
a cord to the Pasche candle, 4s. Total, £l, 10s. 8d.
Balance due, £3, 19s. 4d. (The Easter fines, £4, in arrear.)
Master of
Work,
1545-46.
(34V.)
The late Alexander Farchar, Master of Work, 1545-46
His books not produced and account never presented.