[646] 1 Dollar equal to 4 s. 10-1/2d.

This is the count of the other 100 mks. of the 200 given me in pension.

Then I received from Wm Binning thesaurer 10 dollars, 4 of them consultation money, and 6 of them to make the 12 lb. st. or 150 lb.  Scots,[647] of pension to me, out of which: 

    [647] 150 l.  Scots ought to have been equal to L12, 10s.  This shows
        that the Scots money was not at the time at par with the English.

Imprimis, given at a collation with Mr. Wm Lauder, 30 shils. 
Given to the bedell at Leith, 6 pence. 
Given to my wife, 2 shilings. 
For sweit pouder, 2 shilings. 
For wine, 5 pence. 
Given to my wife, 6 pence. 
Given for wine, 16 pence. 
Given to my wife to buy shoes with and lint, a dollar. 
Given for the use of the house, a dollar. 
Payed for wine in Lieth, 20 shil. 
Given at Hew Boyde’s contribution, a shiling. 
Given to my wife, a dollar. 
Given to buy lint with, a dollar. 
Given for a drinking glasse, 6 pence. 
Given to my wife, a dollar. 
Given for the State of England, 2d volume, 3 shilings. 
Spent on wine, 18 pence. 
Given for the use of the house, a dollar.

This is all the 10 dollars.

Then I receaved on the 17 of March 1671 from my father 300 mks. which made in all of what I had receaved from him 1700 mks., out of which: 

Imprimis, given for the use of the house, a dollar. 
Given to my wife to buy lace for a pinner, to buy
  holland for napkins and aprons, etc., 5 dollars and a halfe. 
Item, for a chopin of win, 10 pence. 
Item, given to my wife, 10 pence. 
Item, for the use of the house, a dollar. 
To my wife to buy lace for apron and napkins, a dolar and a halfe. 
Payed at a collation with collonell Ramsay, 42 shiling. 
Lent to James Lauder, 2 dollars. 
Given for the house, halfe a dolar. 
Given to the barber, a shiling. 
Payed to the baker conforme to his accompt,