Series 3 > Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624

AYR BURGH ACCOUNTS
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of the Brig, £6, 18s. 9d. To the masons and labourers (at 2s. 6d. Master of
per day), £2, 4s. 6d. A bar and crooks for the yett of the Port, 1589-90.
£2, 3s. lOd. To David Frow, with 6 masons and barrowmen, for
working 8 days at the Port, £10, 8s. Total, £51, 14s. 5d.
The Gabar. For mending and carrying the gabar, £9, 19s. 2d.
For ropes (including ane new cordall torn, of trventie faddum),
£6, Is. 3d. For timber and nails to it, £8, Os. 8d. For 15 quarts
of tar (at 10s. per quart), £7, 10s. For 3 st. 6 lb. of rosett (at 16s.
per stone), £2,14s. For coals to heat it, 3s. 8d. For an anchor, £6.
For loading the gabar 24 times, with great stones, etc., for Troon,
£28, 13s. 6d. To 6 men, for bringing the gabar up when it sank
at Johnne Rankenes schipis starne, 11s. 4d. Total, £69, 13s. 7d.
Other Work. For rvinning stones and casting clay (at 2s. 6d.
per day), £6, 3s. 6d. For digging turf, £2, 17s. For setting
up a post with a borvat for mirk nychtis, £l, 9s. 4d. For
mending the kirk-dyke, £l, 8s. 4d. For shovelling snow from the
calsays, 2s. For laying down a mill-stone as a base for the perch in
the harbour, 11s. 8d. To the mason, for visiting Corrochan Brig,
3s. A new drum-head, 6s. 8d. For 1 lb. of soap for the kirk-bell,
2s. 8d. For implements for the town’s work—2 spades, 2 shovels,
a mell, a pick and a scoop—£4, 8s. 9d. Total, £17, 12s. lid.
Incidentals. For drink to various workmen (wine at 13s. 4d.
per quart, and ale at 2s. per quart), £6, 12s. 4d. For 2 boxes of
comfeitis, at the bon-fires on the hills, £l. For coals and butter,
10s. 6d. A dozen of wheat-bread, 12s. 2 long candles, 3s. Given
as a God’s penny at 2 agreements with workmen, 10s. 8d. Given
for the sustentatioun of trva honest lyk pure men suldartis come out of
France on thair great povertie, at desyr of the bailleis and sindrie
honest men, for Goddis caus, 13s. 4d. Total, £10, Is. lOd.
Magistrates’ Fees. The Provost, £5. The Master of Work, .
£376s.“8d; Total, £8, 6s. 8d.
Commissioners and Messengers. To Michael Wallace, to ride
to the King at Perth and Edinburgh, to procure the town’s ex¬
emption from the Earl of Bothwell’s raid against the thieves, £5.
Given for last year’s and this year’s Exchequer compts, 4 crowns.1
Given to the poistis Hall and Thompsoun that ran still in rvinter to
Edinburgh sex sindrie tymis for the actioun of our pley and with our
commissiounis, £8. To other posts, £7, Is. 4d. To a pursuivant,
messengers and boys, £4, 6s. 8d. Total, £24, 8s. and 4 crowns.
1 This item is not given its Scots equivalent, and is apparently not
included in the total.
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