Series 3 > Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624

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AYR BURGH ACCOUNTS
Dean of Guild, Willi am Roger, Dean of Guild, 1594-95
(audited April 30, 1596, and September 19, 1597)1
Charge
(88r.) 11 guild-entries at £10, 2 at 5 merks, £116, 13s. 4d.
Discharge
(88rv.) To Antan Wricht, slater, for fee (£5) and slating the kirk
(£2, 10s.), £7, 10s. To John Quhyte and Alexander Maling, for
laying the kirk-floor with tiles (at 10s. per day each), £14. To the
barrowmen, for carrying sand for the floor and timber for desks
and forms, £3, 2s. 2d. For the loan of the ladders and carrying
them, 3s. 2d. For 150 nails, 10s. To George Hunter, smith, for
mending the kirk-door, 10s. For Danskene iron (at Is. 6d. per lb.)
and single planchouris, 17s. 6d. For . . .2 to the kirk, 12s. To
Thomas Mirrie and William Hunter elder for timber, £8, 14s. 4d.
To John Makquhaill, wright, for making forms and desks,
£l 1,2s. lOd. For olive-oil to the bell, 6s. 8d. To Edward Campbell,
by command of Bailie Cochren, for Danskene iron (at Is. 6d. per lb.)
to make seals for the firlots, 12s. Id. To William Dalrimpill
(unexplained), £10. To the drummer, for parchment to the drum,
16s. For taffatie to the youth for the bend of the papingo 1596 ressavit
be Alexander Kennedy, £5. To the schoolmaster, £2, 13s. 4d. For
his gown, £ll. A box of comfeittis to John Hahday, 9s. For the
support of Lord Kintyre’s second son, £20. The Dean of Guild’s
fee, £5. Total, £102, 19s. Id.
{88i>.) In arrears, the guild-entry of Robert Law in Mauchline (£10),
for the quhilk his fredome is thairfoir dischargit. Balance due,
£3, 14s. 3d.—paid to Adam Johnestoun, present Dean of Guild.
Master of Thomas Mirrie, Master of Work, 1594-95
I59V95. (audited Nov. 26, 1595)
Charge
(88v.) Received from the Treasurer, £60.
1 A second day was allowed be ressoun of sum debursingis be the compter
sensyne of the rest of his said yeiris compt and silver thairof being in his
handis.
2 Indecipherable through cutting of top margin.