halfe a dollar. 
Item, at a collation and on other uses, 3 shilings. 
Item, spent upon the race day, 3 shillings. 
Item, at a collation, 26 shiling. 
Item, sent to Calderwood’s man’s wedding, a dollar. 
Item, at a collation in Heriot’s yards, 18 pence. 
Item, for seck with A. Todrigde, ij pence. 
To the Lady Pitmedden’s nurse, a dollar. 
Item, in Ja.  Haliburton’s, tua merks. 
Item, to a poor woman, a mark. 
Item, for a quair of paper, 6 pence. 
Item, to the barber, 6 pence. 
Item, to the kirk basin, 6 pence. 
Item, given to my wife, a dollar and a halfe. 
Item, given hir, tua dollars and 2 mark. 
Item, spent in Ja.  Haliburton’s, 2 marks. 
Given to my wife, tua dollars. 
Given to the barber, a 6 pence. 
Given for a timber comb, 8 pence. 
Given on other uses, 8 pence. 
Item, in the taverne, 20 pence. 
Item, to my wife,. 20 pence. 
Item, on the 1 of April given to my wife for the
  use of the house that moneth, 12 dollars. 
Upon win at sundry tymes, 40 shilling. 
Item, to the barber, 6 pence. 
Upon other uses, 9 pence. 
Item to the kirk deacon for a year’s contribution 2 dollars.

    [669] Wages of a nurse sixteen dollars, or about L4 yearly, double the
        wages of an ordinary woman servant.

[Sidenote:  [This money is repayed me.][670]]

[Item, payed out for my Lord Provest’s use and by his vreits[670] a hundred merks and 8 dollars to Marie Hamilton in pairt of payment of the right she had upon Popill][671] which being joyned with the former makes up exactly the haill 400 mks. receaved by me from my father on the 5’t of March last.

[Sidenote:  [Which money is yet owing me.][671]]

    [670] Writs.

    [671] Erased in MS.