Imprimis, to my wife, 20 rix dollars. 
Item, for Petryes History of the Church, 15 shills. sterl. 
  This is one 100 merks.[662]
Item, for Taylor’s Cases of Conscience or Ductor, etc., 22 shillings. 
Item, for Baker’s Chronicle of England and Blunt’s
  Animadversions on it, 20 shillings. 
Item, for Plinius 2dus his Epistles cum notis variorum, 6 shillings. 
Item, for Cromwell’s Proclamations and other Acts
  of his Counsell from Septr. 1653 till Decr. 1654, 4 shillings. 
For a pair of silk stockings, ij shills:  6 p. 
Given to the nurse’s husband, a dollar. 
Given for Tyrannick love and the Impertinents, tuo comoedies, 40 pence. 
Given for Reflections upon the Eloquence of this tyme, 18 pence. 
Given for the Mystery of Iniquity unvailled by G.B., 9 pence. 
Given for the accompt of the sea fight betuixt E.
  and D. in 1665,[663] and are answer of our Commissioners
  to England in 1647, 4 pence. 
Given for ane answer to Salmasius Def.  Regia,. 7 pence. 
Item, for my dinner and other charges at Leith,
  the race day, 3 shillings stg. 
Given for Holland to be a halfe shirt, 5 shillings. 
Given to my wife for the house, a dollar. 
Given for the life of the Duck D’Espernon, 15 shillings.

This is another 100 mks.

    [662] This makes the dollar about 4s. 9-1/2d.

    [663] English and Dutch.

Item, given to my wife for the use of the house, 18 dollars. 
Item, at Halbert Gledstans woman’s marriage, a dollar. 
Item, at the comoedy, halfe a dollar. 
Item, that night in Rot.  Meins for wine, halfe a dollar. 
Item, in James Dean’s the consecration day, 23 shillings. 
Item, payed to Jonet’s nurse and hir husband,[664]
For hir fie drink money, bounty and all, 24 dollars.
  which absorbed all the 300 mks. received by me from Thomas
  Robertsone as my annuel rent and put me to take 21 dollars
  out of the money given me in pension. 
Hence of the 150 lb. given me in pension I payed
  to the said nurse as already is got doune, 21 dolars. 
Item, given to my wife, 2 dollars. 
Item, given hir for the use of the house on the 1 of August 21 dollars.

    [664] Amount torn off.

This is 128 lb. of the 150 receaved by me in pension, so that their remains with me 23 lb. of that money, out of which 23 lb.

Imprimis on the first of September 1672 given the said haill 23 lb. to my wife for the use of the house.