Series 3 > Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624

Treasurer,
1558-59-
(SSn--)
130 AYR BURGH ACCOUNTS
rimple, =£18, 13s. 4d. Nicholas Scherar, £8. Schir Richard Miller,
£5,6s. 8d. The Provost, £5. Stephen Prestoun (clerk), £4. George
Gude, £3. The Treasurer, £2. The poinder, 10s.
Total, £86, 10s.
The Black Friars’ Alms, £ll.
Commissioners’ and Travelling Expenses. To the Bailies
(Charles Campble and Robert MacMillane), for riding to Parlia¬
ment and incurring sundry legal expenses, £16, 6s. 8d. To the
Bailie who rode to Edinburgh to render the Exchequer compt, £4.
To the Bailies, for riding to Irvine, £3, 13s. To James and George
Bannotyne, for riding to Edinburgh in the town’s plea with Lef-
noreis and bringing home ane precheour, £22. To the officers, for
riding to Irvine and watching the wine one night in Ayr, £l, 3s.
Messengers to Irvine and Mauchline, £l, 4s. Total, £48, 6s. 8d.
Petty Legal Expenses. To a pursuivant, 10s. To him that pro-
clamit the pece, £l, 15s. For the Exchequer precept, 2s. Sealing-
wax, candles and instruments, 3s. To arl a ship, 4d.
Total, £2, 10s. 4d.
Common Work. For the contract with the knock-mender and
7 days’ expenses, £3, 14s. 2d. For carriage of the knock to Edin¬
burgh and wine to Robert Scott, £l, 14s. In part payment of the
mending of the knock, £10. For joiner-work on the pulpit and the
door of the knock, £l, Is. lOd. An iron-stamp for the wine-barrels,
Is. 6d. Total, £16, 11s. 6d.
Military Expenditure. To the Bailies,ybr ane taxt to hald men of
weir upoun the bordouris, £39, 15s. 4d. To part furnish a boat for
the Earl of Argyle’s host, £l. For carting turf to the rampart, 5s.
Total, £41, 0s. 4d.
Hospitahty. For wine to Lords Glencairn, Cassilis and Boyd,
£l,4s. Forwine to Lords Eglintoun and Setoun,£l, 18s. Forwine
drunk when Paul Reid was made a Bailie, 8s. Other gifts of wine,
16s. Total, £4, 6s.
Miscellaneous and Unexplained. To John Buchane, school¬
master, and for a chariage man to Perth, £8, 17s. 4d. To Schir
Thomas Raithe, spent in the town’s name, £2, 16s. To John
Miller and John Wallace, £4. To Schir Thomas Raithe, at the
Bailies’ command, £l, 5s. Spent on a poor child, 12s. To the
widow McClinto, for land scke rvantit of the sandis, £3, 6s. 8d.
Total, £20, 17s.
Grand Total, £220.1
In arrears, £57, 4s. 4d. Balance due, £37, 15s.2
1 Should be £231, is. rod.
Should be £42, 16s. 6d.