Series 3 > Ayr Burgh accounts, 1534-1624

256 AYR BURGH ACCOUNTS
Treasurer, Miscellaneous. For a suit of clothes promised to James Lawrie,
1612 13. master of the Music School, £20. In complete payment of the
transporting of John Bonar the schoolmaster’s gear from Inver-
keithing, £8. To the youth on May I, 1613, for the support of their
papingo bend, £6. For curing of ane pure seik bodie impotent of ane
greit disease, £3, 10s. Total, £37, 10s.
Grand Total, £1360, 10s. Td.1
(i25rr.) In arrears, £30, 14s. Total of expenditure and arrears,
£1391, 9s. 7d.2 Quit.
Cuiw, Donald Smyth, Dean of Guild, 1612-13
(audited Dec. 20, 1614)
Charge
(1250.) Guild-entries—two (from Mauchline and Newton) at £20, one (a
mealmaker) at £10, one at £5, and two (a fuller and another) at
5 merks—£61, 13s. 4d. Received from Treasurer Law, £65.
Received from William Broun of the kirk leid mes in his handis,
£12, 10s. Total, £139, 3s. 4d.
Discharge
(125V., i26r.) For timber to the kirk-work, £34. For carrying it, 19s. 8d. To
Stephen Michell, wright, for putting the sparris on the roof and
dressing the forms, £7, 10s. For 6 bolls of lime, £2. For mixing it,
Is. For sand, 16s. 8d. To John Masoun, mason, for his work,
£5, 6s. 8d. For wine at the agreements with the wright and the
mason, 12s. To Neill Wrycht for the slate-work, £30. For fog to
it, £6, 5s. To John Murdoch, cooper, for ringis and cuttingis to
make slate-pins, 18s. 8d. 4 loads of coals to seyth them, 16s. 8d.
The loan of a kettle, 12s. For gloves to the slaters, . . .3 To
Thomas Busbie for lead, 8s. For tarrit and quhyte rope for the
scaffolding, £3, 3s. 4d. Olive-oil and rope for the bell, £l, 6s. 9d.
To George Nesbit, saddler, for dressing the ladder of the bell, 4s.
One £20 guild-entry received by George McCalmont, next Dean of
Guild, £20. The £5 guild-entry received by James Blair, Dean of
Guild, 1614-15, £5. The Dean of Guild’s Fee, £5.
Total, £127, 12s. 5d.
(i2f>r.) Balance due, £ll, 11s. [«’c]—paid to James Blair, Dean of Guild,
1614-15.
Treasurer, Accounts for 1613-14, vide supra, pp. 55-66
I6r3-i4.
1 Should be £1295, 2s. 2d. 8 Should be £1391, 4s. 7d.
3 Corner of page worn away, and figure lost. If the Total be correct,
the gloves must have cost £2, 12s.—which seems excessive.