Series 3 > Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624

AYR BURGH ACCOUNTS
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Discharge
Fees and Stipends. The Provost, £5. The Treasurer, £5. The
schoolmaster, £26,13s. 4d. Friar Allansoun, £16. The procurator-
fiscal, £3, 6s. 8d. The officers, £10. John Haliday’s stipend, £5.
For keeping the knock, £6,13s. 4d. For keeping the kirk, £6,13s. 4d.
The suitor-fee, 13s. 4d. Total, £85.
Commissioners’ Expenses. To James Bannatyne, for riding to
Edinburgh, £24. To George Cochren, superexpendit by him in
keeping a Convention of Royal Burghs at Edinburgh, £8, 6s. 8d.
To Alexander Mowat, as commissioner to the Convention of Royal
Burghs at Montrose, £40. To James Craufurd, John Masoun and
others, for riding to Newmilns and Irvine in the town’s affairs, £9.
Total, £81, 6s. 8d.
Legal and Messengers’ Expenses. For letters and writs in the
town’s action against Waltersan, £3, 13s. 4d. To the messengers,
to charge and summon him, £3, 10s. For placks in that action,
3s. 4d. To William Forsyth, for continuation of the letters of
homing against the Juges, £l, 10s. To him, at the receipt of
the stent, £2. To Robert Scott, to keep the Exchequer compt, £3.
To John Masoun (clerk), for his services in the town’s affairs, £10.
To his man, for drinksilver, and for copying precepts, £l, 10s. To
2 King’s posts (one of them bringing the proclamatioun of the silver
crying doun), 13s. 4d. To sundry other messengers and boys, to
Edinburgh, Carrick, Lochfergus, etc., £7, 8s. To Richard the
hkman, £l, 10s. For ropes, 5s. 6d. To Richard again, for the
hanging of the last theif of the schereffis, 16s. 8d.
Total, £36, 0s. 2d.
Wine and Hospitality. For sweetmeats (comfeitis) when the
Master of Eglinton came to George Cochren’s house, 16s. For ale
and aqua vitae then, 18s. 4d. To Bessie Wallace, when John Andra
and the men of law were with her, £4. To Patrick Cauldwell’s
wife, for horse-feed, £2, 13s. For wine given at sundry times to
the young Sheriff of Ayr, the Master of Eglinton, the tutor of
Cassilis, the laird of Bargany, and the King’s minister (generally
at 13s. 4d. per quart), £14, 16s. For 12 quarts, 1 pint of wine
given to the great men, £8, 15s. In utheris small remardis, £12, 6s.
For spices and wine given to the Irland lord, £5. For wine given
to Bargany at the tryst of Waltersan, £l, 6s. 8d. For ale, beer
and wine at the feeing of the slater, £l. For wine and wheat-
bread given to George Dunbar for his services in Edinburgh,
16s. 8d. For a breakfast to William Forsyth before the payment
of the stent-money to him, £l, 2s. 8d. For bread and wine for
Communion, £8. Total, £61, 10s. 4d.
Treasurer,
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