Series 3 > Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624

AYR BURGH ACCOUNTS
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James Kennedy, Dean of Guild, 1558-59 Dean of Guild,
(audited Jan. 6, 1562/3)
Charge
9 guild-entries (including Johnne Broun son to Robert Broun) at (55»0
5s.; £2, 5s. 4 guild-entries (including a cordiner) at 10 merks,
£26, 13s. 4d. Total, £28, 18s. 4d.
Discharge
The glazier’s fee for the past two years, £4. To James Masone, (55V., 56r.)
for repairing the windows of the Trinity aisle with lime and plaster,
£8, 8s. Cutting the iron out of the windows, 9s. To the slater, for
roofing the kirk, £4, 13s. For nails, timber and slate-pins, £l, 18s.
For candles to the organs, 7s. 4d. Making the kirk-stile, £l, 4s.
Other petty expenses in the kirk, 5s. The Dean of Guild’s fee for
the past two years, £4. Total, £25, 4s. 4d.x
Mr. Michael Wallace, Master of Work, 1558-59
(audited Jan. 6, 1562/3)
Charge
Nil.
Discharge
To the barrowmen and other workmen at the bastalyie on the
hills, 6s. 2d. Taking stones to the haven-work, 7s. Balance due to
him as Master of Work in 1554-55, £l, 3s. 4d. Paid to the executors
of Henry Prestoun at the Justice-court at Glasgow, £l, 4s. For
writing a commission in a plea, 14s. Total, £7, Is. 2d.
This sum is to be deducted from the arrears due from him to
the Treasurer this year.
Master of
Work,
1558-59.
(55V.)
Accounts for 1559-60, vide supra, pp. 30-34.
Treasurer,
etc., 1559-60.
Archibald Fergushill, Treasurer, 1560-61 Treasi
(audited Jan. 6, 1562/3)
Charge
The town’s rental, £190,18s. 2d. 14 burgess-entries at 5 merks, (57v)
£46, 13s. 4d. Two other entries, £3. The grassum for a farm in
Alloway, £13, 6s. 8d. The entre of ane pece new land at the
Spittelboge, £l. From the rouping of salt and hides, £6.
Total, £260, 18s. 2d.
No balance is struck for this account.