Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 eBook

John Lauder
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 528 pages of information about Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36.

Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 eBook

John Lauder
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 528 pages of information about Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36.
33 shiling. 
On win with Ja.  Lauds, 5 pence. 
Given to my wife, a dollar. 
Item given to hir, halfe a mark. 
Given to the barber, a 6 pence. 
Given in Pentherer’s, 8 pence. 
Given to my wife for my ...[640] a dollar. 
Item given to my wife for the house, a dollar. 
Given for new wine, a shilling. 
Given to my wife, 29 shilling. 
Given againe to my wife, a dollar. 
Given for the house, a dollar. 
Given to my wife, 3 dollars.

    [640] Word interlined illegible, like ‘manninie.’

This is the account of the wholle 300 mks. all till about a dollar which I remember not of.

Then towards the end of November I received from my father about 200 mks. and 3 dollars which with all the former made 1200 mks. wheirof imprimis.[641]

    [641] In the first of these entries the value of the dollar comes out
        about 4s. 11d., in the second at 5s.

A dollar and a halfe given to a man for teaching
  my wife writing and arithmetick, 4 lb. 8s. 
Then a dollar for the serving woman’s halfe fie, 3lb. 
Item in drinkmoney to the bedell and others, halfe a croun. 
Item to my wife, a dollar. 
Item at Geo. Lauder’s penny wedding, a dollar. 
Item to the fidlers, a 6 pence. 
Given to my wife, a dollar. 
Item, given hir for the use of the house on the 2’d
  of December, 10 dollars. 
To the barber, 10 pence. 
Upon win and at cards, 13 pence. 
To my wife, a mark. 
For a pair of shoes and gallasches[642] to them, 5s. and 10 p. 
To my wife, 6 pence. 
Given to my wife to buy to hir nurse a wastcoat
  with and shoes, etc., 2 dollars. 
At a collation with Rot.  Bell in Pentherer’s, 34 shiling. 
To Mr. Thomas Hay that he might give up the
  papers, 2 dolars. 
For Broun’s Vulgar errors, 6 shilings 6 p. 
For the Present State of England, halfe a croun. 
For the moral state of it, 2 shilings. 
Then given at the kirk door, halfe a dollar.

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