All which expenses being cast up they just make up and amount to 300 merks and 19 rix dollars, to which adde the 4 rix dollars of the wholle 600 mks. that ware not payed, their is spent 400 mks., and their rests behind 200 mks.
Out of which Imprimis:
On the 4 of May 1674 when I went to Ed’r., and
stayed their till the 14 of May, during
all that
tyme spent according to the accompt of
it particularly
set doune in another paper besyde me,
10 dollars.
Item, payed for a cow,[705]
34 lb. Scots.
Donne a ma femme et emprunte d’elle de Rot.
Craw, a dollar.
Item, spent with Mr. Alex’r. McGil and
Captain
Crawfurd in Kirkcaldy,
3 lb. ij shil. Scots.
Item, payed to the woman Mary[2] for hir years fie
when she went away on the 24 of May 1675,
8 rix dollars.
For seing the lionness and other beasts at Kirkcaldy,
12 pence.
Donne a ma femme,
29 pence.
Item, given hir more to pay the other woman’s
fee,[706]
3 dollars and a halfe.
[705] Price of a cow.
[706] Apparently his maidservants.
Receaved from John Broun, elder, wool seller, 40 lb. Scots on the 12 of June 1675, and that for a years maill of the low chamber and sellar possest by him from me, viz., from Witsonday 1674 till Whitsonday last 1675, and wheirof I gave him a discharge.
For 2 proclamations,
3 pence.
To Henry Mensen for cutting my hair,
30 shil.
For a quarter’s payment with my man[707] begun
on the
22 of June 1675 to the Master and doctor
of Kirkcaldy
scooll for learning him to wryte better,
to
read Latin, etc.,
32 shilings Scots.
On the 19 of July 1675 given a la servante
Joannette Smith qui alloit avecque mon
fils 100 merks
ainez a Londres par mer pour leur d’espences
and 9 shill.
du voiage, six livres sterling,
ings sterling.
Donne a la dite servante pour ellememe,
a dollar.
To Mr. Tennent, skipper of the ship pour leur
fraughts,[708]
35 shillings sterling.
Spent at Kirkcaldy on Rhenish with Rot. Fothringhame
that day,
44 shilings.
Payed for fraught from Kingborne,
8 pence.
Spent with Sir Ja. Stainfeild and Sam. Moncreiff,
39 pence.
For the 3’d tome of Alciats Commentar on the
Digests, 48 pence.
For the Governement of the tongue,
12 pence.
For botle aill,
4 pence.
For a solen goose,
29 pence.
Upon a mutskin of seck with Raploch and Camnetham,
10 pence.
For 4 fraughts from Leith to Kingb.,
16 pence.