Series 3 > Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624

AYR BURGH ACCOUNTS
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John Fallusdale, Master of Work, 1556-57
(audited Jan. 6, 1562/3)
Charge
Received from the Treasurer, £6.
Discharge
To Moreis, for digging stones, £7. The Master of Work’s fee,
£3, 6s. 8d. Total, £10, 6s. 8d.
Credit balance, £4, 6s. 8d.
John Lokhart, Bailie, 1556-57
(audited Jan. 6, 1562/3)
Charge
The feus of the Sands in 1557—104J acres at £2, 10s. per acre,
£261, 5s. 17 acres at £l, 10s. per acre, £25, 10s. 19 acres at £l
per acre, £19. 1 acre paid nothing, and the laird of Bargany’s acre
paid no feu, for tkai wald sett nothing to lardis, but it paid a tack-
duty of £l, 10s. In addition, the tacks of four lots of 2 roods
brought £3. Total, £310, 5s.
Discharge
Feu-duties were rebated to the Provost, Baihes and Clerk, and
4 others, and George Lokhart maid not tak his aker in few; total
rebates, £19, 10s. To Mr. Michael Wallace and Paul Reid, to ride
to Edinburgh, and spend in the agreement with the Sheriff,
£31, 10s. 4d. To the old and new Sheriffs, £22. For the annual
of the Cruives of Cree in 1553-54, £8, 19s. For Schir Richard
Miller’s fee in 1554-55, £5, 6s. 8d. Expenses in riding to the
Justice-court at Glasgow, £2, 8s. For bringing stones to the haven-
work in 1554-55, £l, 2s. 8d. Balance due to John Lokhart when he
was Treasurer (1551-52), £ll, 7s. ed.1 Balance due to him as
Master of Work in 1553-54, £3, 6s. 6d.2 Total, £320, 17s. 4d.3
Credit balance, £10, 12s. 4d. But from this should be deducted
£3, 6s. 8d., received for Alexander Syme’s burgess-entry, and
£3, 11s., which should have been paid to our man of lam. Net
balance due to him, £3, 14s. 8d., to be collected from the arrears
of his year as Treasurer (1551-52).
1 Vide supra, p. 115. 2 Vide supra, p. 121.
* Should be only ^105, 10s. 8d. I
Master of
Work,
I556-57-
(53«>.)
Bailie,
1556-57.
(53r.)