Item, given to my wife on the 9 day of June 1673, 6 dollars. 
To Joseph the barber, a shilling. 
Item, in Ja.  Haliburton’s, 18 pence. 
Item, for a timber chair, 18 pence. 
Item, on Leith on the race day, 3 shillings. 
Item, at the kirk door, 6 pence. 
For the post of a letter from my goodbrother, 14 pence. 
Item, in Maistertons with young Idington when he went away, 32 shiling. 
At dinner in Haliburton’s, 20 pence. 
Item, to the barber, 6 pence. 
Item, upon other uses, 6 pence. 
Item, to my father’s woman who keips the child
  George, given by myself and my wife, 2 dollars. 
Item, given to my wife, a dollar. 
Payed to the coallman, 10 lb.[675]
Item, upon paper and ink, 10 pence. 
Item, in Ja.  Haliburtons, 10 pence. 
Item, given to my wife for buying a scarfe, hood, 10 pence.
  fan, gloves, shoes, linnen for bands, etc., 7 dollars.

    [675] This is one of the few instances in which an item of
        expenditure is stated in pounds.

This is another 100 merks.  And which compleits the haill 380 merks receaved from my father on the 8 of may 1673.

Upon the 20 of June 1673 I receaved from William Binning a years salarie as tounes assessor which he was owing me for the year 1671 wheirin he was tresurer, being 150 lb.  Scots, which is about 229 merks, out of which: 

Imprimis, for a pair of net leather shoes, 3 shillings. 
Item, in Painston’s with Mr. Todridge, 48 shill. 
Item, given to my wife partly to pay Margaret
  Neilsons fie and partly for other uses, 3 dollars. 
For a triple letter its post for Rome, 15 pence. 
Item, for seing the play called the Spanish Curate, halfe a dollar. 
Item, for cherries to Kate Chancellor their, halfe a dollar. 
Item, theirafter in Aikman’s, 14 pence. 
Item, at the kirk door, halfe a mark. 
Item, spent when I was at Liberton kirk, 2 shillings. 
Item, for Thomas the Rymer’s Prophecies, 4 pence. 
For the Lords answer in Fairlies case, a dollar. 
Item, given to my wife to compleit Margaret Neilsons
  fie during the haill tyme of hir service
  besides what was payed hir formerly,