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No alteration shall be made in t hese Rules except at a General Meeting of the Society. A fortnight's notice of any alteration to be proposed shall be given to the Members of the Council. PUBLICATIONS. Works already Issued, 1887. 1. Bishop Pococke's Tours in Scotland, 1747-1760. Edited by D. W. Kemp. 2. Diary of Cunningham of Craigends, 1 673-1680. Edited by the Rev. James Dodds, D.D. Works hi Preparation. Panurgi Philo-caballi Scoti Grameidos libri sex. — The Gramiad: An heroic poem descriptive of the Campaign of Viscount Dundee in 1689, by James Philip of Almerieclose. Edited with Notes by the Rev. Canon Murdoch. The Register of the Kirk Session of St. Andrews. Part i. 1559-1582. Edited by D. Hay Fleming. Diary of the Rev. John Mill, Minister of Dunrossness, in Shet- land, 1742-1805. Edited by Gilbert Goudie, F.S.A. Scot. A Narrative of Mr. James Nimmo, a Covenanter, 1654-1708. Edited by W. G. Scott Moncrieff, Advocate. PUBLICATIONS OF THE SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME II. CUNNINGHAM'S DIARY October 1887 THE DIARY AND GENERAL EXPENDITURE BOOK OF WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS Commissioner to the Convention of Estates and Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire KEPT CHIEFLY FROM 1673 to 1680 Edited from the Original Manuscript by the Rev. JAMES DODDS, D.D. Glasg., F.S.A. Scot. EDINBURGH Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable, for the Scottish History Society 1887 M v.X t&SSOH COLLEGE LlBRAftt OCT 90 IQ7| 464995 CONTEN T S. I. Introduction — PAGE The Writer — His genealogy and position at Craig- ends — His wife — Involved in the troubles of the Covenanting times — Peden the prophet — Country overrun with beggars — Domestic life — ' The lady ' — Superstitions — Master and ( Man ' — ' Voyages ' — Roads — Parcel Post — The Kirk Box — Recrea- tions — The elephant — Professional fools — Books — Beverages— Coffee-houses — Home and foreign Fruits — Agriculture — Rents — Produce — Dress — Medical treatment — Scarcity of money — Persecu- tions and their bearing on the diarist — The ' High- land Host ' — Lawburrows — ' Outed Ministers ' — The Revolution — Cuningham's return as a Com- missioner to the Convention of Estates and as a member of the Scottish Parliament — Letter to his constituents, and claim for expenditure incurred in their interests — His stepson — Scots and sterling money — Cuningham Genealogy, . . . ix-xliv II. Diary— Arranges with his miller, .... 1 Engages a < man/ . . 1, 11, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23 Sells meal, bere, oats, growing crops, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16, 19, 22, 23, 24 Settles with his mother for board, . 2, 6, 10, 12, 17, 23 Terms on which he grants leases of land, 3,4, 10, 11, 13, 15, 24, 25, 2() vi CONTEXTS II. Diary (Continued) — page Pays his man's wages, 3 A runaway tenant, .... 4* A horse-cowping transaction, ... 5 Cost of boarding a school-boy, ... 5 Contracts for the erection of a leaping-on stone, . 6 Arranges with a bankrupt tenant, . . 7 Relative cost of living at Craigends and in Edin- burgh estimated, and terms arranged, . . 8 Settles accounts with his father, . . 10, 12, 15 Sells a horse, . . . . . . 11, 16 Gives discount secretly to a tenant, . . 12 Settles for a horse, . . . .12 Pays teind-dues and notes his opinion of the minister, . . . . .11 Arrangement with his wife as to money, . . 16 Joins with his stepson in the purchase of a family ' Jewel or locket of diamonds,' . . . 17, 23 Scotch estates of the Duchess of Lennox, . 18 Coal mines and miners, . . . . 18 Note as to expenditure for his stepson, . . 19 Sells a cow ; estimated value of cattle, . 20, 26, 27 Excise Commissioners' arrangements for providing forage to troopers, . . . . 21 Note and resolution as to money lent, . . 21 Tron weight and Troy weight compared, . . 24 A cautioner for rent, .... 24 Arrangement as to church seats, ... 25 His sister's contract of marriage, . . . 25 Return of corn from seed, ... 26 Forms of rental and their money value, . . 27 A Craigends marriage contract of 1496, . . 28 Expenditure in connection with his son's wedding, 28 His income in 1675, .... 29 Stipend of Kilallan, .... 29 Family memoranda, .... SO CONTENTS vii III. Expenditure — PAGE Details of expenditure — From 18th November to 31st December 1673, 30-31 From 1st January to 31st December 1674, 31-49 From 1st January to 31st December 1675, 49-68 From 1st January to 31st December 1676, 68-87 From 1st January to 31st December 1677, 87-105 From 1st January to 31st December 1678, 105-110 From 1st January to 31st December 1679, 110-114 From 1st January to 31st December 1680, 115-116 IV. Scheme of Rental of Craigends, . . . 117-147 V. Glossary, 149-150 INTRODUCTION. Although the carefully- written manuscript volume from which the following notes and diary are taken does not contain the name, formally stated, of the author, it yet affords evidence clear and unmistakable as to his identity. Even were there any room for doubt in regard to the authorship after perusal of its contents, this would be dispelled on a comparison of the handwriting with that of other authenticated documents bear- ing the signature of William Cuningham, younger, or, as he designated himself, 4 Master ' of Craigends, in the county of Renfrew. Cuningham was a member of an old influential family, founded by a cadet of the earldom of Glencairn to whom the first Earl gave the lands of Craigends in 14T9. 1 This estate is still possessed by a Cuningham who is descended from the diarist. During the period covered by the volume, the house of Craigends was jointly occupied by Alexander Cuningham, father of the writer, and the diarist, his only son. In accordance with a practice not unusual at the period, the elder Cuningham seems to have transferred the estates to his son, about the time of the marriage of the latter, retaining only certain liferent rights to himself and wife. 2 The elder Cuningham had married Janet, daughter of William Cuningham of Auchinyards, and had issue five children ; William, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Janet, and Marion. Woodrow in his Analecta incidentally states that this marriage took place when Alexander Cuningham was only nineteen 1 P. 28. - P. 15. b X INTRODUCTION years of age. 1 He was comparatively a young man when his son on 22d April 1673 brought home to Craigends as his wife Anne, daughter of Lord Ruthven, and widow of Sir William Cuningham of Cuninghamhead, in the parish of Dreghorn. As was often the case in those times, when commodious houses were few and farm rents were small, the father and mother, with their daughters and their son and daughter-in-law, lived together in the family mansion, — an old roomy building that stood until recently, with its thick walls, in which were secret recesses for concealment in troublous times. At Craigends the joint household kept a common table, the young couple paying their parents for board, in terms of agreements which are fully set forth in the manuscript. By her previous marriage to Sir William Cuningham, the wife of the younger laird of Craig- ends had a son, William, who on his father's death in 1671 became proprietor of Cuninghamhead. This son the mother appears to have boarded at Irvine, bringing him occasionally to Craigends ; and her husband acted as a trustee for the youth, who seems afterwards to have given a good deal of trouble by questioning his stepfather's management of the estates. This youth is referred to in the Diary as Cuninghamhead. Lord Ruthven, the father of Mrs. William Cuningham, died in 1673, the year of his daughter's second marriage, and the Lady Ruthven, whose name and seat of Freeland in Perth- shire are often mentioned, was his widow and her mother. This close relationship explains the frequent 6 voyages' of the Cuning- hams to Freeland as well as the partnership in chambers and joint expenditure during several visits to Edinburgh of Lady Ruthven and the Cuninghams. Lady Ruthven was Isabel, third daughter of Lord Balfour of Burleigh, in the county of Kinross. Visits to Burleigh as well as to Freeland are noted in the Diary. During the establishment of Episcopacy, and the troubled times in which they lived, the sympathies of the Cuninghams were altogether against the Government and with the persecuted ] Woodrow's Analecta, iii. 7. INTRODUCTION xi Presbyterians. In 1684 father and son were fined in the large sum of £6000 sterling for their encouragement of the proscribed religion ; and that they had earned the distinction appears from entries in the Diary of subscriptions for ' Alex r Padie, who lies prisoner very closse in the Basse ' — no doubt the famous Peden the prophet — and for other suffering ministers. 1 The elder Cun- ingham was for some years a prisoner in the Tolbooth for his sympathy with the Presbyterian cause. He was accused of having sent relief to Archibald, Earl of Argyll, then a fugitive in Holland on account of his determined opposition to the Government measures for the enforcement of Episcopacy. He had been closely associated with Sir William Cuningham, his daughter-in-law's first husband, who was, like himself, a thorough-going Presbyterian, and, as such, subjected to fines, imprisonment, and other forms of persecution, and no doubt the common trials of the two families helped to bring about the marriage of the diarist. The Diary incidentally casts light upon details of the domestic life and manners of the time. There is perhaps no entry which occurs more frequently than gifts to beggars ' at the gate ' or ' on the road, 1 and these corroborate the statements of Fletcher of Saltoun and other early writers on the social condition of Scotland. Cuningham had day by day to comply with the demands of innumerable mendicants who watched him as he issued from his gate, or followed him to kirk or market. They gathered around him on his journeys, and levied contributions as he passed. It is quite certain that in those times there was occasionally much suffering in consequence of deficient harvests, but there was a class to whom mendicancy was a profitable trade. The professional beggar went from house to house, equipped with ' A bag for his oatmeal, Another for his salt, And a pair of crutches To show that he can halt, # 1 Pp. 33, 46, 47, 9h 92. xii INTRODUCTION A bag for his corn, Another for his rye, A little bottle by his side To drink when he's a-dry.' 1 The country was overrun with beggars and thieves, who are significantly described in the quaint language of the old statutes as 4 sorners and sturdy beggars/ Fletcher states that there were in Scotland at the very time when this Renfrewshire diary was written 200,000 persons begging from door to door, and extorting sustenance by violence. The number may be exag- gerated, but it is certain that in Cuningham's day pauperism was one of the great problems which exercised the Scottish Parliament. In 1661 an Act was passed for the establishment of manufactories in order to afford employment, and by another in 1663 the manufacturers were empowered 6 to seize all vaga- bonds and idle persons and make them work for a space, to the extent of eleven years, giving them meat and clothes only." In 1672 another Act authorised all manufacturers ' to seize and apprehend any vagabonds who shall be found begging, or who, being masterless or out of service, have not wherewith to maintain themselves by their own means and work, and to employ them for their own service as they shall see fit." The misfortune was that the manufacturers were very few and the beggars very many, so that the provision did not meet the case, and the evil continued, to the cost and sorrow of the diarist and others of his day. Not that the history of the beggars is without its sunny as well as its shady side. The Diary contains few references to books, and none to newspapers, which had not yet become a necessity, and the beggars of a more intelligent class were the minstrels and news-retailers of the day. Readers of the Antiquary do not require to be told that there were gaberlunzies who stood out from the rank and file of the great brigade, and were welcome guests in the kitchen of the tenant-farmer or 1 Bell's Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry, p. 251. INTRODUCTION xiii laird, who, after supplying them with a supper of porridge, conducted them to the barn for the night's rest. Like Edie Ochiltree, they brought the ' news and country cracks frae ae farm-steading to anither, and gingerbread to the lasses, and helped the lads to mend their fiddles, and gude-wifes to clout their pans, and plaited rush swords and grenadier caps for the weans, and busked the laird's flees, and had skill o' cow ills and horse ills, and kenned mair auld sangs and tales than a' the barony beside, and garred everybody laugh wherever they cam'/ Domestic life at the period of the Diary was a much more homely, and in some respects a more healthy thing than its modern counterpart. In the seventeenth century the landlora was seldom or never an absentee from his patrimonial acres, but went in and out among his tenants as a father and master, ready with advice in every difficulty, and with encouragement in every undertaking, sitting with them in the parish church, and bearing his part, as more than one entry in the diary shows, in their simple recreations. His wife, invariably spoken of as 4 the lady,' was what the name implies — the mistress of the household. Her reign in her department was supreme. None dared dispute her authority, and her eye was on every corner of her dwelling. Her husband might let his farms and draw the proceeds of the corn, but the cows, the poultry, the cheese, were her domain, and in these matters bargain-making was her affair. Like the virtuous woman of King Lemuel, 6 she sought wool and flax, and worked willingly with her hands. She laid her hands to the spindle, and her hands held the distaff. She stretched out her hand to the poor, yea, she reached forth her hands to the needy. She looked well to the ways of her house- hold, and did not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rose up and called her blessed ; her husband also, and he praised her.' Such was 'the lady 1 in the old Scottish house. Her speech was the Doric of her native land, as broad as that of her domestics. Trained from her earliest days to use her hands, \l\ [NTRODUCTTON and believing in the dignity of labour, ihe taught her daughter! to be what the law, based on an old fact, still as a fiction designates all unmarried females — 4 spinsters/ 4 They were a delightful set/ says Lord Cockburn in his Memorials, referring to one <>r two Scottish ( ladies 1 of the old school who survived in his early youth, 4 strong-headed, warm-hearted, and high- spirited merry even in solitude ; very resolute, indifferent about the modes and habits of the modern world, and adhering to their own ways. Their prominent qualities of sense, humour, affection, and spirit, were embodied in curious outsides, for the) all dressed and spoke and did exacth as they chose. Their language, like their habits, entirely Scotch, hut without any Other vulgarity than what perfect naturalness is sometimes mistaken for." In those Scottish homes superstition lingered. We have more t hau one note in the Diary of payment ' for a prognostics tion/ It is not easy to make out the exact meaning of this word, but if it implied belief in the supernatural insight of cer- tain wise men or women, the record is quite in keeping with the feeling of the age, which, on both sides of the Tweed, was one of faith in portents, omens, dreams, and witches. The Stuarts were great patrons of these delusions, especiall) of witchcraft. King dames i. affirmed that Satan and witches Were in compact, and, among other amusing details, stated that tlu* devil taught his disciples how to draw triangular circles. Charles n., who was sovereign when the Diar\ opens, was equally superstitious. His royal touch was employed to cure disease. 'One Evans,' says Aubrey in his Miscellany, 'had a fungus on his nose, and it was revealed to him that, the king's hand would cure him; and at the first coming of King Charles to St. dames Park he kissed the king's hand, and rubbed his nose with it, which disturbed the king, hut cured him/ Towards the close of the seventeenth century witchcraft became a fearful epidemic in the neighbourhood of Craigends, as the story of the Renfrewshire witches and the manuscript records INTRODUCTION XV of the Presbytery attest. 1 Drowning, hanging, burning the victims only increased the appetite for such slaughter. Learned and pious men were carried away by the delusion. Even Luther wrote, * When I was a child there were many witches, who bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.' It is not wonderful therefore if Cuningham was not altogether tree from the popular belief. The heroine of the Renfrewshire Witches* trial was C hristian Shaw of Bargarren, afterwards the originator of thread manufacture, near Paisley, which town is still pre-eminent in connection with this industry. 2 That Cuningham had relations with her family appears from frequent notes of payments to k Will. Shaw, Bargarren's son.* With the history of modern spiritualism before us, we who know how deeply rooted in human nature is the desire to pry into futurity, who see men and women, in other respects intelligent, placing faith in k mediums," k manifestations,* k odylism," and other delusions, have no right to cast a stone at the laird for his credulity in the matter of 6 prognostications." The relation of master and servant was not without its difficulties even then. Cuningham details minutely the terms he made with various individuals whom he engaged from time to time as his 4 man." 1 On the whole, notwithstanding the many acts of kindness which are recorded, we cannot read the Diary without feeling that there was a dash of penuriousness in CuninghanTs character, and that this may have led to the surreptitious flight of one, and the hesitancy of others to undertake the position. 8 The 'man* was expected to be handy about the house, to make and mend the laird"* clothes, and he even anticipated the occupation of k woman's tailor," which in modern times has attained so prominent a place of sartorial eminence. His work was strangely varied from plying the needle and shears within doors to setting- forth equipped in top-boots and spurs and wearing a sword, as equestrian 1 See History of the Renfre^rsht re Witches, Paisley, 1S77, with Introduction by the Editor of this Diary. ■ See Renfrnvshire Witches, [ntrod., p. wiv. :< Pp. 14. IO - xvi INTRODUCTION attendant upon his master. This latter duty seems to have been regarded as more dignified than that of a servant who did not accompany his master on horseback, for we find the promise duly recorded in the Diary that James Gemmell was not to be degraded to the position of a foot-servant. 1 Many entries in the Diary refer to the details of journeys between Craigends and Edinburgh. The necessity for these originated in a law-plea with the Earl of Loudon, affecting the interests of Cuninghanfs step-son, young Cuninghamhead. This case is referred to in an entry dated October 1675. 2 As trustee and guardian of this youth, it became important that William Cuningham and his wife should reside for some time in Edinburgh, and the entry explains the conditions on which this was arranged. The case is briefly reported by Stair, Fountainhall, and others. It lasted for several years, and rendered the journeys more frequent than was at first antici- pated. The first of these took place in May 1674, and the expenditure by the way is so minutely detailed that we are enabled, with intelligent interest, to follow the party, which consisted of Cuningham himself, his wife and her son, one of his sisters, four persons not named, and John Fleming, his man. The livery coat procured just before, at the cost of three pounds and fourpence Scots, was no doubt got ready for this excursion, and there are indications of other careful preparations for the road. Cuningham terms his journeys ' voyages. 1 This word was not then as now restricted to travels by sea, but was employed as it still is in France, and as Milton used it, to denote wanderings of any kind. The traveller provided his own conveyance, and was bound down to no iron road. He was free to travel as he chose, — to loiter when that was his pleasure, to hasten forward when the shades of evening warned him to seek shelter in the friendlv hostelry which furnished ' entertainment for man and beast." Old Fuller tells us that camels were the coaches of the East 1 Pp. 14, 19. 2 P. 8. INTRODUCTION xvii Country in Abraham's days, and no less truly Cuningham\s coaches were his horses. We see him, after administering a friendly ' tip 1 to his youthful cousins at Renfrew School, embark with his company and five horses on a 4 voyage ' across the Clyde at Renfrew. Several of the travellers were ladies, and to modern ideas it may seem puzzling to reconcile the relative numbers of five steeds and nine excursionists. But to the laird these numbers presented no difficulty, as on landing from the ferry-boat, like Lochinvar, 1 Light to the croup the fair lady he swung, And light to the saddle before her he sprung.' This was the order of things in these old days. To kirk, to market, and when paying visits, the lady rode upon a pillion or pad behind her husband or servant. Almost every country house was provided with a leaping-on stone, such as mav still be seen at the gates of Duddingstone and other old Scottish churchyards — an erection of wood or masonry for the accommodation of ladies when mounting or alighting from their horses. The cost of one of these stones may be seen in the Diary. 1 Even Queen Elizabeth, with all her dignity, did not disdain to ride on a pillion from London to Exeter behind the Lord Chancellor. But, indeed, between employing her own palfrey and clinging to the Chancellor she had little choice, for her reign was far advanced before the first coach was intro- duced into London. It was not until 1725 that the first private carriage — constructed by a timber merchant in his own yard — was seen in Glasgow. Cuningham had no such luxury, and, even had he possessed it, what to do with it would have been a difficulty, for the parish roads were in a condition similar to that which the great military engineer set himself to remedy in the Scottish Highlands, Avhose achievements are commemorated in the familiar couplet — 1 If you'd seen these roads before they were made, You would lift up your hands and bless General Wade.' 1 Pp. 6, 53, 54- xviii INTRODUCTION We find Cuningham entering his outlay for 4 a coach-roome from Leith,' and again for the hire of a coach in Edinburgh for his wife ;* but in the country the roads in bad weather were impassable except for equestrian travellers, and a stormy Sabbath was an apology for absence from the kirk at which the most exacting Session could not cavil. There were few bridges over the rivers. Within the recollection of a Scottish minister who died in 1830 the Tweed, throughout its whole length, was crossed by two only, the one at Peebles and the other at Berwick. Here and there ferries were established with their complement of boats, one for carrying foot-passengers, and another, technically termed the horse-boat, which was brought into requisition when quadrupeds appeared upon the scene. Fords, too, existed where a foot passage was practicable, and many lives were lost when travellers attempted to cross rivers swollen in times of flood. None were more active in the work of building bridges than the Scottish clergy. The records of Kirk-sessions and Presbyteries show that this subject was one in which they were deeply interested, and that most of the old Scottish bridges were paid for with moneys collected in great measure by them. Cuningham notes a subscription for build- ing a bridge over the Gryffe. In the Diary there is no mention of carts or any of their be- longings, and the harness referred to consisted mainly of saddles, pads, pillions, girths, stirrup-leathers, bits, and reins. This was for the reason that wheeled vehicles had not come into use on farms. Manure was carried out to the fields and the crops were conveyed home in creels or baskets, slung over the backs of the horses. Corn (which then, as still colloquially in Scot- land, meant oats) or other grain was sent to market in sacks balanced in similar fashion. Two bolls of meal made up a load ; and hence, though no longer carried on horseback, a ' load ' of meal still means two bolls. Our canny forefathers were prob- ably more sagacious than certain Irish peasants who, Fitz- 1 P. in. INTRODUCTION xix gibbon tells us in his excellent work on Ireland, were in the habit of sending their butter to market in creels, a cask of butter in the one creel and a huge stone of equal weight in the other, designed, like John Gilpin's bottles, to keep the balance true. Fitzgibbon says he has seen a line of fifty horses thus freighted panting under their burdens, their enlightened masters never caring to think that one-half the number of steeds would have sufficed had the stones been dispensed with. Sledges were sometimes employed for the conveyance of sheaves to the stackyard. To travellers equipped like the 4 voyagers 1 the conveyance of luggage must have been a serious matter ; and the modern lady, with her belongings stowed in a dozen trunks and bandboxes, as she sets out for a fortnight's visit, might advantageously study the fact that this party of nine persons went on a summer pilgrimage, which lasted for five weeks, burdened with no other luggage than John Fleming accommodated on his horse. When a more extended absence from home was contemplated, the services of a functionary denominated 4 The Post ' were called into requisition for the transference of baggage, who united in his person the offices of letter-carrier to His Majesty and conveyer of other goods to His Majesty's subjects. The Diary thus proves that the modern Parcels Post is but the revival of an old institution, and affords another illustration of Solomon's remark that there is no new thing under the sun. The references to the 'kirk box,' and the constantly-recurring records of weekly contributions at Kilbarchan and Paisley, seem to indicate that the Cuningham family gave regular attendance at their parish church, and on special occasions at Paisley, which was their nearest town. It is interesting to note the Sunday visits on horseback to Dalmeny from Edinburgh, and fees paid to the doorkeeper of the church for the use of stools or chairs, which had not generally, as Jenny Geddes 1 weapon shows, given place to fixed pews, in connection with the fact that the minister of that parish at the time was Alexander XX INTRODUCTION Hamilton, son of the Laird of Househill in Renfrewshire, who had been deprived by Acts of the Parliament and the Privy Council in 1662 for not submitting to Episcopacy, but returned under the Act of Indulgence in 1669. We gather from Brown and Woodrow that the preaching of Hamilton was so attractive that great numbers of people went from Edinburgh to hear him, which so offended the bishop and his adherents that he was summarily removed to Dalserf. He was called to Edinburgh on 4 the Toleration 1 in 1687, but afterwards went back to Dalmeny. The * kirk bred,' ' brod,' or 6 box,' was a capacious chest set up at church-doors, and occasionally at other places of public- resort, for the reception of contributions in money as a pro- vision for the poor. It was divided internally into two compart- ments, and in the lid over each of these was a slit, one small, for silver, and the other larger, for copper coins. Specimens of such boxes may still be seen in some of the session-houses of old Scottish Churches. They had two locks, the respective keys of which were in the possession of different members of the Kirk-session, and it was understood that no elder should have access to the contents unless accompanied by a colleague. There are references in the Diary to recreations and amuse- ments in which Cuningham engaged. Tennis seems to have been a favourite pastime, and he had opportunity for practising this game near Thomas Wilson's hostelry in Paisley, where there was a court. He hunted, curled, and played at bowls with his tenants and servants. Games at billiards and cards are also noted, and betting on a small scale seems to have accompanied all such amusements, for they are noted chiefly in connection with monev lost or won. In Edinburgh we find him visiting the play, 1 witnessing rope-dancing, 2 going to see ' the bears and the ape,' 3 and having 'a sight of the elephant.'' 4 The last-mentioned animal was the first of the kind brought to this country, and must have been the one described by Law, from whose account of it the following is an extract : — 1 Pp. 39, ii2, 115. 2 P. 103. 3 P. 77. * P. 115. INTRODUCTION xxi 4 Anno 1680 came an elephant to Brittain bought by the English merchants at 2000 lib. sterling, and was sent through the island for sight to gain money ; never was there any ele- phant seen in Scotland before, and it was brought to Glasgow January 1681, and was seen by many; it was then eleven yeirs old, a great beast with a great body and a great head, small eyes and dull ; lowged like two skats lying closs to its heid, having a large trunk coming down fra the nether end of the forehead, of length a yard and a half, in the under most part small with a nosthrill, by which trunk it breathed and drank, casting up its meat and drink in its mouth below it, having two large and long bones or teeth of a yard length coming from the upper jaw of it, and at the far end of them inclyning one to another, by which it digs the earth for roots, and then with the trunk takes them up and casts them in the mouth under it, as it does all other meat it eats ; it was backed lyke a sow, the taill of it lyke a cow's, the legs of it were big, lyke pillars or great posts, and broad feet with toes lyke round lumps of flesh. It was a male that we saw, and was taught to floorish the collours with the trunk of it, and to shoot a gunn, and to bow the knees of it, and to make reverence with its big heid. They also rode upon it. 1 1 The elephant had been farmed out to Alexander Deas and others for exhibition, but on their failing to pay the full sum agreed on to the owners, a litigation recorded by Fountainhall resulted. The ground of refusal to pay was that the owners had not shown all the elephant could do, such as its drinking. The reply was, 4 It could not drink every time it was shown. 1 There are entries of money gifts to 4 Peter Boyn, the fool, 12 4 the Fool at Freeland, 13 which seem to show that the professional or family fool still held a footing in Lady Ruthven's household. The references may be to the 4 innocent 1 whom many still living remember as a prominent member of the population in every village community until stringent modern lunacy laws enforced 1 Law's Memorialls, p. 176. 2 P. 31. 3 P. 36. xxii INTRODUCTION his removal to an asylum ; but it is not improbable that Peter Boyn was a household official. Fools or Jesters, described as 6 witty and jocose persons kept by princes to inform them of their faults, and of those of others, under the disguise of a waggish story, 1 were retained at Court until the time of Charles i., but we do not find any licensed jester after his reign. The fool, however, lingered in the households of Scot- tish noblemen until times much more recent, and many of the chapbooks which formed the staple literature of the rural population until well on in the present century record the say- ings and doings of such characters. In speech and behaviour the fool was privileged to use great liberty with his master and guests. The origin of licensed fools is shrewdly attributed by Davies in his Dramatic Miscellanies to the want of free society. A jest from an equal was an insult ; but in such circumstances conversation wanted its pepper, vinegar, and mustard, so the fool was brought in to give spice to social intercourse. Though motley has disappeared from courtly circles, the jester, licensed in another sense than his prototype, is not unknown in high places. Evidence is not wanting, even in our own day, to prove that some men may with impunity use liberty of speech which from other lips than theirs would not be tolerated. The library of Cuningham does not appear to have been very extensive. Although very often a visitor to Edinburgh, his entries of expenditure on books are few and unimportant. For 'a little book called The Apollogy^ he paid thirteen shillings and fourpence Scots. He bought also Alleine's Alarm to the Unconverted, which was published for the first time in 1672, a work so popular in its day that 20,000 copies of it were sold, and when, three years after, it was issued under the title A Sure Guide to Heaven, 50,000 additional copies were speedily bought up. Life and Death, another popular religious work by the same author, is also noted. ClerWs Lives was probablv a volume of biographies by the Rev. Samuel Clarke INTRODUCTION xxiii of St. Bennet Fink, London, who was ejected for Nonconformity in 1662. Clarke is sarcastically described by Wood as 6 a scrib- bling plagiary, as his works, mostly the lives of Presbyterian divines, show. 1 Cuningham's interest in Presbyterian divines was very different from Wood's. Another of the books entered is The Second Part of the Fulfilling of the Scriptures, which cost one pound Scots. The author was Robert Fleming, whose son Robert became celebrated as the author of The Rise and Fall of Papacy, a book popular when it first appeared, and repeatedly reprinted in 1848 and following years, in consequence of remarkable coincidences between the author's interpretations of prophecy and then current political events. The elder Fleming was minister of Cambuslang, from which parish lie was ejected in 1662, and afterwards took charge of the Scotch church at Rotterdam. The Fulfilling of the Scriptures passed through six editions. Pool's Nullity of the Roman Faith was an able attack on Romanism by the famous Matthew Pool or Poole, the author of the Synopsis. A new edition of this book, published at London in 1679, had a large circulation in Scotland, which was then greatly stirred by an ti -papal feeling. This, and one or two minor works on similar subjects, were purchased by Cuningham in 1680. Cuningham notes payments for building and furnishing a 'study/ but gives no indication beyond these entries of the books which occupied his leisure. As a Presbyterian, his property, his liberty, and his life were endangered, and though there is abundant evidence in the Diary and elsewhere that he was a man of considerable culture, his studies must have been greatly marred by the ecclesiastical troubles in which he and his father were prominent sufferers. He notes outlays for copies of Proclamations and Acts of the Parliament and Council, not a few of which were directed against those who were associated with him in the maintenance of proscribed Presbyterianism. There are few entries in regard to food consumed in the xxiv INTRODUCTION household. The explanation is that while at Craigends Cuning- ham boarded with his parents, and when in Edinburgh this department was managed by 4 the lady,' whose purchases were paid for with money received from her husband, and entered by him as payments 4 To my wife/ Drink, however, was paid for by Cuningham, and is noted under the items ' Wine,' 'Rhenish Wine,' * Sack, 1 6 Ale.' There are numerous entries of 8 Drinksilver," but the word, like its equivalents in continental tongues, indicates no more than the fact that the purchase of stimulating beverages, then as now, was a common destination of gratuities. Wine ' consumed in our chamber" was abundant and cheap in Edinburgh in Cuning- ham's day, but the Diary shows that his was a temperate house- hold. There is no reference to tea, which had not come into use as a household beverage. Pepys thus records his first knowledge of tea in 1660 : ' I did send for a cup of tee (a China drink), of which I never had drank before. 1 The infu- sion of it in water was sold and was taxed by the gallon, in common with chocolate and sherbet. But Cuningham notes his expenditure from time to time at coffee-houses in Edinburgh and Leith. Coffee and chocolate were more generally used than tea, and coffee-houses, first established in London during the Commonwealth, soon made their way into Edinburgh and Glasgow. The Scottish Privy Council Records note the com- pulsory closing of a coffee-house kept by one James Row in 1677, because the owner had an unlawful preacher holding forth in his house on Sunday. People went to these houses not so much for refreshments as for news and gossip. In 1680 the Privy Council ordained that no gazette or news-letter should be read in coffee-houses until it had been first presented to the Bishop of Edinburgh, or other privy councillor, for approval. Cuningham does not seem to have himself used tobacco, but we find him purchasing two tobacco-pipes, and presenting Gavin Moody with a supply of the 4 weed / 1 1 Pp. 52-64. INTRODUCTION XXV Tli ere are frequent entries in the Diary of purchases of fruit. Oranges, lemons, and chesnuts are the foreign productions, while the home-grown are pears, apples, plums, cherries, gooseberries, red currants, and nuts. The home fruits appear to have ripened at periods of the year which did not materially differ from their seasons in recent times. Food for horses appears under the entries of corn, grass, hay, and straw. The purchases of hay give refutation to a statement contained in a satirical sheet entitled Terrible News from Scotland, published at London in 1647, which, among many amusing accusations brought against the Scotch, affirms that 'The word liaye is heathen Greek to them. Neither man nor beast knows what it means/ The pamphleteer admits, however, that 'corn is reasonable plentiful.'' The light thrown upon the state of agriculture at the period in Scotland by the Diary is interesting. No treatise on the subject appeared till after the Revolution, and little is known in regard to it. A tour made by Ray along the Eastern coast in 1661 led him to note the neglected condi- tion of the land and the idleness and poverty of the people : — 'We observed little or no fallow ground. Some layed ground we saw which they manured with sea wreck. The people seemed to be very lazy and may be frequently observed to plough in their cloaks. They have neither good bread, cheese, nor drink. They cannot make them nor will they learn. Their butter is very indifferent, and one would wonder how they could contrive to make it so bad. They use much pottage made of coal-wort which they call Real, sometimes broth of decorticated barley. The ordinary country-houses are pitiful cots, built of stone and covered with turfs, having in them but one room, many of them no chimneys, the windows very small holes, and not glazed. 1 1 Ray's account is borne out by other evidence. Accord- ing to Mr. White and Principal Macfarlane, little improve- 1 Select Remains of John Ray, pp. 1 87-8. London, 1760. C INTRODUCTION ment had taken place at the close of last century. They describe the farmhouses as deplorably wretched, and the cottages as miserable hovels : 6 A small building of dry-stone, or at best cemented with clay, a roof of heavy timber covered with sod and rotten straw or ferns, a door so low that a middle-sized man cannot enter without stooping, windows with seldom a pane of glass, the fire on the floor, the smoke finding its way out of every chink and crevice, as well as at the hole in the roof left for its passage, and partitions consisting only of the frames of the beds, which are surrounded on every side with boards, form in many instances the residence of a Dum- bartonshire cottager."' 1 Rents, as the Diary clearly shows, were paid only to a small extent in money — 1 silver maill ' as it was called, the largest por- tion being rendered in 6 ferine* 1 — that is, in oats, bere, and meal, the remainder was made up of 4 kain, 1 paid in poultry, cheese, and butter. In addition to these payments, the tenants were also bound to render onerous services to the landlords, giving their own labour and the use of their servants and horses for a fixed number of days annually for ploughing, sowing, and reap- ing, which duties had to be performed irrespective of the condi- tion of their own fields at the time. 2 The grain in most common cultivation was oats of a very inferior kind — the grey or wild oat (avena Jatua). Bere and barley were grown to some extent. Potatoes were not planted, even in the Lothians, till 1746. The purchases of turnips noted seem to contradict a general belief that this vegetable was not cultivated in Scot- land until a period much more recent. 3 Those bought by Cuningham in 1676 and 1677 had probably been grown in a garden. Turnips as a field crop are said to have been intro- duced by Viscount Townshend in Norfolk about 1716. The spelling 'turneep'* indicates the pronunciation of the word which survives in the Scottish name of the vegetable, 6 neep.' 1 General Viezu of the Agriculture of Dumbartonshire, 1811, p. 34. 2 P. 12. 3 Pp. 78, 97- INTRODUCTION xxvii The land was cut up into very small holdings. Many of these were not larger than eight or ten acres, and farms as large as a ploughgate, 104 acres, were scarcely known. The Scheme of Rental of Craigends, printed as an Appendix to this volume, shows the numerous parcels into which that estate was divided, and the many forms in which rents were paid. There are many entries which bear on the materials, making, furnishing, and cost of the dress of a Scottish gentleman at the period of the diarist. Cuningham's ' man, 1 William Cuning- ham — styled 6 tailour 1 in the note which defines the terms of his engagement 1 — had obviously served an apprenticeship to that craft. He undertook for twenty pounds Scots annually, and clothes, not only to serve as 4 man 1 but to work his masters tailor-work, and in addition to act as tailor for his wife, her gentlewoman, and Cuninghamhead. The man was also to be permitted 6 to take in other folks' work to the house," including that of Mrs. Cuningham, senior, on the condition that such work should not interfere with the discharge of his duties to his master. 1 Whether the tailor-man failed to adhere to the conditions the diary does not show, but for this or some other cause he was 'given his leave 1 in 1676. 2 Cuning- ham made an unsuccessful attempt to engage another tailor as his man in 1679. 3 Until well on in the present century there were many wandering tailors in the rural or landward districts of Scotland who gained a living by hiring themselves to sew in households for a limited period, receiving board and lodging while so engaged, in addition to a small sum as wages. In 1659 the tailor burgesses of Inverness petitioned the Town Council to put a stop to the operations of 4 outlandish tailors," who 4 steal away the trade of the place, and work the same in the landward, ... so that if speedy redress be not found, and this evil to this poor trade be not stayed, your supplicants and our poor families will undoubtedly perish. 1 Their desire was granted. 4 The articles of dress made for Cuningham, or 1 Pp. i, 2. 2 P. ii. 3 T. 16. 4 Chambers's Domestic Annals, ii. 254. xxviii INTRODUCTION purchased by him, are carefully noted, from his shoes and stockings to his periwig. Even the mending of 4 ane old piriwick ' is recorded, as is also the 4 soalling of stockins. 1 For rough weather and riding he had 4 great bend-leather boots,"* 1 4 threed stirrup stockins, 1 and 4 ryding tapped stockins. 1 While playing at bowls he wore 4 a pair of coarse gloves. 1 For dress occasions he had 4 silk stockins, 1 fastened with 4 a pair of broidered garters, 1 silver-buckled shoes, coat and breeches of 4 purpur cloath, 1 fixed with ties made from 4 fifteen ells of purpur ribbon. 1 His breeches were strengthened at the knees with 4 searge, 1 and his coat was lined with 4 calico, 1 or 4 black taffa- tee. 1 One suit, though furnished with nine dozen silver buckles, required 4 a dozen more silver buttons 1 to complete the number of its metal fastenings. 2 His 4 good gloves 1 were 4 shivrons, 1 specially procured from 4 St. Johnstoun, 1 the great seat of kid- glove manufacture. His sleeves and cravat were of 4 camrick, 1 bordered with lace. Around his dress he wore a belt, in which his sword and scabbard held place ; on his head was his 4 piriwick, 1 and, when he went out of doors, over the periwig was set a 4 cawdebink, 1 or French hat. 3 On horseback he wore 4 a velvet cap. 1 For mourning he had a 4 mourning cloke, 1 with ten dozen buttons, 4 and when attending funerals he wore a cloak hired for the occasion. At other times his cloak was of Baragon, or Paragon, so called from the excel- lence of its material, manufactured in Italy. 5 He had also a 4 Justycoat, 1 6 or tightly-fitting body coat, with forty-two buttons, while the 4 west coat, 1 or under doublet had four dozen. In connection with the Justycoat it is interesting to note that Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, whose daughter Cuning- ham married after the death of his first wife, was in 1678 fined 500 merks for wearing 4 a black justicoat, whereupon 1 Pp. 63, 71. - P. 95. 3 P. 116. 4 P. 32. 5 P. 89. The habitual use of cloaks in Scotland struck Ray, who writes : ' It is the fashion of them to wear cloaks when they go abroad, but especially on Sunday.' — Select Remains, p. 189. 6 P. 58, where, for Rtistycoat, read Justycoat. INTRODUCTION XXIX there was black silk or gimp lace.' The wearing of such apparel contravened a sumptuary law passed in 1672 by the Parliament, 'discharging the wearing of silver lace and silk stuffs. 1 1 Cuningham was most careful of his 4 razours, 1 which were sent to Glasgow to be sharped ; and for his hair he had not only 4 bone ' but also two 4 timber 1 combs, 4 a little pocket brush,'* and a supply of 4 sweet hair powder. 1 The livery and stable dresses of his man are noted ; and there are various entries in connection with articles of female apparel pur- chased for his wife and sisters. Cuningham's faith in the resources of pharmacy and surgery is attested not only by his treatment of his horses' ailments, but also by his payments to doctors and apothecaries for medicines to his wife and himself. He had himself bled from time to time, and it is suggestive that an entry of payment for blood-letting to Robert Houstoun is immediately fol- lowed by a larger payment 4 to Doctor Johnstoun, whom I sent for.' 2 Although many payments for articles purchased were in cash, the prevalent scarcity of ready money is shown in the Diary by the large number of settlements that were made 4 in kind," by the frequent references to 4 bands ' or bonds, by pro- tracted credits, and by the extensive prevalence of barter. Cuningham paid a large proportion of the board arranged for with his parents not in 4 real money but in poultry, cheese, meal, and corn. There is no direct reference in the volume to the persecu- tions of the Presbyterians by the Government, in which the household at Craigends suffered heavily. The reason for this reticence was probably apprehension of the danger that might arise if the book should fall into unfriendly hands ; for in those days a raid upon the houses of leading Presbyterians, involving seizure of their property and papers, was no uncommon occur- rence. But, as we read 4 between the lines,' not a few entries 1 Chambers's Domestic Annals, ii. 357- 2 **■ I0 ~" XXX INTRODUCTION acquire significance, and show that Cuningham was no passive spectator of the sufferings of his co-religionists. We find him purchasing early copies of various Acts and Proclamations of the Parliament and Council, and may be sure that these were not only diligently perused at Craigends, but that their con- tents were speedily communicated, for warning and guidance, to the tenants and others around who were in sympathy with the cause against which these stern documents were directed. We see that he was in correspondence with not a few of the leading ejected ministers ; that he again and again assisted in raising funds to procure comforts for Alexander Peden and other prisoners who were exposed to great suffering in their lonely prison on the Bass, and that he visited and cheered with wine some who were imprisoned at Edinburgh in the Tolbootb, a form of persecution to which he and his father were them- selves at a later period subjected. 1 Such kindness was extended not only to suffering ministers and other victims of the Govern- ment, but to their families when in distress. We find, too, reference to the notorious 6 Highland Host,"* the rough licen- tious soldiers sent to the West of Scotland by the authorities, charged to harry and persecute all who were not ready to accept the terms of a bond imposed by Lauderdale. 2 They were accompanied by a Committee of the Lords of Council, not to prevent excesses, but to point out victims. The exac- tions and cruelties of these men were such that they are still referred to with bated breath in the districts which they ravaged. They were maintained at the expense of those whom they were commissioned to persecute. Cuningham and others had to provide the soldiers with quarters and food, and their horses with stabling and forage. 3 There is an interesting entry 1 See Woodrow's History (Glasgow, 1829), vol. iv. pp. 136, et seg., for interest- ing details of the persecutions of which the Craigends family were victims, and for information regarding several persons named in the Diary. At page 144 will be found a narrative prepared by William Cuningham himself. 2 Law's Memorials, 136 ; Woodrow's History \ ii. 421 et seq. 3 Pp. 20, 55, 107, 109. INTRODUCTION xxxi of payment for a ' Consultation of lawyers about the public business of Lawburrows. 1 Lawburrows is an ancient form of writ, procured by an individual who takes oath that he fears personal injury from another, which binds the other, under a severe penalty, to abstain from doing him harm, either by himself or his family. By a violent perversion of law, such a writ was issued in the name of Charles against his subjects, and all who declined the bond were ordered to give security that they and their households would not attend con- venticles under pain of being held as rebels. 1 Even after the military had been withdrawn, the bond and the lawburrows were keenly pressed ; but the public discontent became so strong that, in spite of a prohibition against leaving Scotland, the Duke of Hamilton and other noblemen went to London to state their grievances, and to petition Charles to discontinue a policy which must either drive his people to despair or desolate the kingdom. Cuningham has entered a payment of four shillings for a 1 double ' or copy of their statement, which he terms 6 Cassills complaint. 1 2 He notes also a pay- ment of the same amount for 6 The narrative or printed paper, 1 no doubt the official narrative of the proceedings of the Council in the year 1678, which may be read in Woodrow's History? The result of their representations was that, much against his inclination, Charles, after he had repeatedly refused to receive the deputation, at last saw the necessity for yielding, and in a few months he ordered the bonds to be laid aside. The respite, however, was of short duration. On the 15th August 1678 the purchase of a copy of the Act of Convention of Estates is noted. 4 This Convention was called by Lauder- 1 P. 106. The King, in a letter written to the Council, affirmed the legality of his action in connection with lawburrows. Hamilton, armed no doubt with the opinion of the lawyers consulted, declared such action ultra vires of Charles. See Woodrow's History, ii. 433, 453. * P. 106. For this ' Complaint ' see Woodrow's History, ii. 434. ;{ P. 106. See Woodrow's History, ii. 442, footnote. 4 P. 108. xxxii INTRODUCTION dale. The action of Charles was, in so far, a reflection upon Lauderdale's policy ; but, with the astute dexterity which characterised that statesman, he obtained from the servile nobles an Act which not only gratified the king by exacting from the Presbyterians money to pay the army that had pillaged them, but also contained a strongly expressed approval of his own Administration. The names of various ministers are noted in the Diary. Cuningham's parish church was that of Kilbarchan. The minister of the time was Mr. John Stirling, a man of consider- able note. His name occurs once onlv, in connection with a payment of vicarage dues, 1 and there is an entry of six shillings paid 'to James Stirling, our minister's son. 12 John Stirling was ordained at Kilbarchan in 1649, after having acted for some time as tutor and chaplain to the Dalhousie family. There is a biographical sketch of him by his son James in Woodrow's Analecta. 3 His eloquence and attractive power were so great that when lie preached on a Friday, even during harvest, the people would leave the fields and crowd the church to hear him, returning invigorated to work. Having joined the Protesters in 1651, Stirling was subjected to the suffer- ings which this conduct involved. Deprived of his charge in 1662, and narrowly escaping by evading a band of soldiers sent to apprehend him in his^house in 1670, he was one of the ministers who accepted the Indulgence of 1672, and returned to his charge. Refusing in 1673 to observe the 29th May, the anniversary of the Restoration, he was fined in half-a-year's stipend. In 1674 he was charged by the Synod with breaking the Indulgence Act by baptizing and marrying persons not of his own parish. On his death in 1683 the charge at Kil- barchan was held by Archibald Wilson, who was deposed in 1688, after the Revolution, when James Stirling became the successor of his father. Two other sons of John were church- men of mark ; Robert, minister of Stevenston, and John, who 1 P. 66. 2 P. 42. 3 Vol. iii. p. 24. INTRODUCTION xxxiii became Principal of Glasgow University. James Stirling was translated from Kilbarchan to the Barony parish of Glasgow in 1699. He gave Woodrow much assistance in the prepara- tion of his works. The name of Patrick Simpson is noted in connection with several payments. 1 He had been chaplain to Archibald, Marquis of Argyll, and became minister of Renfrew in 1653. He was one of the ministers deprived by the Acts of Parlia- ment and Privy Council in 1662, and on the Indulgence in 1672, he was permitted, along with William Thomson, whose name also occurs in the Diary, 2 to preach at Kilmalcolm. Cited to appear before the Privy Council for breaking his Indulgence, he failed to respond, and in consequence the church was declared vacant, and the parishioners were instructed to pay him no more stipend. 3 James Stirling supplied a sketch of Simpson's life for Woodrow, 4 who makes frequent reference to him, and on his death, at the age of 88, in 1715, terms him 6 The last of the antediluvian ministers but one.'' Simpson returned to Renfrew in 1690, and though repeatedly called to charges in Stirling and Glasgow, declined to leave his first parish. He was highly esteemed as a scholar and a preacher, and he held office, by annual election, from 1690 to 1696, as Dean of Faculties of Glasgow University. In 1695 he was Mode- rator of the General Assembly. In the manuscript records of the Presbytery, of date March 18, 1715, is the following entry, which testifies to the respect in which he was held by his colleagues: 6 The Presbytery, considering the age and infirmities of the Moderator, Mr. Patrick Simpson, which detains him from meeting with us, do appoint two of their number, at least monthly, to wait upon him and show the Presbytery's sympathy with him.' He was the father of John Simpson, Professor of Divinity at Glasgow, whose doctrinal views gave no small trouble to the Church courts of his day. 1 Pp. 45, 49, 58. 2 T. 46. 3 Woodrow's History, vol. iii. 61. 4 Analccta, 111. 115. xxxiv INTRODUCTION William Thomson 1 was ordained minister of Houston in 1655, and was one of the ministers ' outed 1 in 1662. He returned to Kilmalcolm and Houston on the Indulgence, and, from an entry in the Diary, appears to have been active in pro- curing subscriptions for distressed ministers. The subscription for Peden and other prisoners at the Bass, which was forwarded by Patrick Simpson to the sufferers, was paid to Thomson by Cuningham. 2 Gabriel Cuningham, 3 admitted in 1648 minister of Dunlop in Ayrshire, refused to conform to Episcopacy in 1662, was one of the foremost to take advantage of the Indulgence in 1672, and was commissioned to confer with those brethren who refused to accept the concession. His mission was not success- ful. In 1674 a warrant for his apprehension, as a preacher at conventicles, was issued. Three years afterwards he was sum- moned by the Privy Council for not conforming to their con- ditions, and in 1683 his goods were sequestrated and his stipend alienated, on account of his complicity with John Cuningham of Bedlane, 6 a notorious traitor." 4 The prefix 4 Mr. , which Cuningham invariably uses in connec- tion with the names of ministers, j ustifies the inference that Mr. James Huchesoun 5 from whose service he engaged a man in 1676 was the minister of Kilallan. Admitted in 1649, he suffered deprivation under the Acts of 1662. The incumbent who occu- pied Kilallan after Huchesoun was outed, was, in 1670, deposed by a committee appointed by Archbishop Leighton to inquire into the truth of the many complaints against the incumbents for irregularities. Accepting the conditions of the Act of Indulgence, Huchesoun returned to his parish, but was extruded again in 1684 for not reading the Proclamation regarding the deliverance of King Charles and the Duke of York from the Ryehouse Plot. After the Toleration Act he went back to Kilallan. Called to Eaglesham in 1688, he was translated to 1 P. 46. 2 See Hew Scot's Fasti, Part iii. 250. 3 Pp. 57, in. 4 Scot's Fasti, iii. 166. 5 P. 11. INTRODUCTION XXXV that parish ; but, on the Synod's declaring the proceedings void, he returned to Kilallan. He was a popular preacher, and on this ground, probably, was selected by the Presbytery for the duty referred to in the following extract from the manuscript records of Paisley Presbytery, May 1693 : ' Upon a desire sent from Lord Rosse that the Presbytery w d be pleased to allow some one of their number to preach in his family next Lord's day, w h in regard of the afflicting circumstances thereof, his worthy Lady being newly deceased, cannot conveniently go to church that day, the Presbytery appoint Mr. James Hutchesoun to go and preach there accordingly.' 1 The plot referred to in the entry at page 109 was probably that with which the name of the infamous Titus Oates is asso- ciated, whose lying statements led to the execution, on perjured evidence, of the aged Lord Stafford, and many other Roman Catholic victims of his perfidy. The elder Cuningham, his health broken by imprisonment, and his mind harassed by the heavy fine imposed on him and his son by the Government, which would have ruined them had it been exacted in full, did not long survive the Revolution settlement which wrought a happy change in his own position and the circumstances of his family. Before his death in 1690 he had the satisfaction of seeing his son elected by the free- holders of his native county one of their commissioners to the Convention of Estates which met at Edinburgh on the 14th of March 1689. William Cuningham, after the death of his first wife, who brought him no children, married secondly, in April 1689, Christian, daughter of Sir John Colquhoun, Bart., of Luss, by whom he had three sons and three daughters. His eldest son, Alexander, succeeded him in the estate. 1 William Cuningham for many years represented his native county in Parliament. A characteristic letter written by him 1 See outlay in connection with his marriage, p. 28. The son's first wife, by whom alone he had issue, was Ann, daughter of Sir John Houston of that ilk. He married, secondly, Catherine, daughter of Sir John Campbell of Houston. xxxvi INTRODUCTION from Craigends in 1696 to his constituents, the Barons and Freeholders of the county, in the possession of William H. Hill, LL.D., of Glasgow, the accomplished author of the History of Hutchesons Hospital, and other antiquarian works, has been kindly placed by that gentleman at the disposal of the editor. It is as follows : — For the Right Honobl The Barons and Freeholders of the Shire of Renfrew To be communicat by the Clerk at their Meeting. Craigends, Octob r 26, 1696. Right Honorable Having long served you as one of your Commissioners at Parliament and Meeting of Estates And never hitherto Importuned you about any Claim of expenses or fies dew for my attendance I have now drawn up my accompt in this paper inclosed Wherin every person may briefly see both the Ground and the Quantitie of what he is indew. I hope you will approve of this my method To begin at the persons debitors And not at the Lands Though the Law give me my choice For seing the debt is immediatly dew by (my) My Neighbour Gentlemen in the Shire And not by their Tennents or Vassals I thought it more agreeable to Justice first to betake myself to them Which I heirby doe by this Civill warning Not puting you to the pains of a Cast or Act of Imposition For by this paper it will appear that that is done to your hand By two authentick documents The Lord Registers Attestatione of the days that I attended And ane extract of the valuations of such Lands of the Shire as bears Com- missioners fies. From these two grounds It is easie to any person to calculat what my claim is from every heritor. And knowing that among the many discreet and Generous persons I have to dea with Their may yet be some through one occasion or other may delay my Just satisfaction Theirfor I need not spare to tell you that I have raised my Letters of Horning Not bare Generall Letters But containing the speciall Compt heir inclosed And charging every man for his own proportion As is heir sett down But I know their will be no need of such weapons Nor doe I intend to give any Charge till more Civill courses be slighted. And now having thus intimat the matter I humbly desire the persons concerned may satisfie their doubts by looking my account Which I intend INTRODUCTION xxxvii should ly in the Clerks hand for that effect To let every man know his quota And I shall be glad how many calculat the Grounds of it ab origene I think to be no loser by such a tryall when they shall see not one farding but 17S Scots allowed for the Charges of persuit & collection And because I can get no Collector will serve so cheap Theirfor I resolve to wait your sending your proportions to my own House That so My Good & Honob 1 friends may have discharges of my own hand writing And in this expectation I resolve to let my Letters ly till the first of December Remain- ing all sincerity Ane humble and affectionat servant to the Good Shire of Renfrew (sic Sub r ) W CUNINGHAM. Claim by Craigends from the Barons and Freeholders of the Shire of Renfrew. The days of Parliament and Convention contained in the Lord Registers Attestation Are as follows — From March 14. 1689 till April 29- Is of days . . 47 From June 5. 1689 till August 2. Is of days . . 59 From April 15. 1690 till July 22. Is of days . . 99 From Septembr 3. 1690 till Septemb r 10. Is . . 8 From April 18. 1693 till June 15. Is of days . . 59 From May 9- 3 695 till July 17. Is of days . . .70 Item four days to goe and come each of the six Sessions, . 24 Summa of days is 366 lb s d Which compts in Money at 5 lb. Ilk day . . 1830 0 0 This casten upon the valued rent of these lyable within the Shire falls sex pound to Ilk hundred of Valuation As appears by the following table — James Hamilton of Aikinhead Sir John Maxwel of Pollock Sir Archibald & Jo: Stewarts, Blackhal Robert Pollock of that Ilk Valuation, lb S 0960 14 1066 13 Proportion. 6090 1008 lb 057 064 365 60 s 13 0 S 10 xxxviii INTRODUCTION Valuation. Proportion. lb s d lb s d Sir Ja: Oswald of Fingaltoun 0700 0 0 042 0 0 Robert Camnbell of Thoik ( > Floak") 0100 0 0 006 0 0 Barbara Muir of Caldwell . 0730 0 0 043 16 0 John Caldwell of that Ilk 0366 13 4 022 0 0 Lady Margret Mountgomry Lifrentrix of Srde J 0700 0 0 042 0 0 Maxuel of Blaw^hill & Yockir 0458 0 0 027 10 0 Collin Camnbell of Castelhill V V'Lllll V ( I 1 1 1 I J KJ K. i 1 WX V (l.ilL 11111 1 • 0060 0 0 003 12 0 Alex r Porterfield of that Ilk 1 A WXC\_,XII\_,X VX V/ X L llCl L XX XV for Povtpvfiplrl & Oiinrrpll 11 lv/l A. V/l IVlUvLU VV Ulll 1 \_/XX til 16Q4 0693 6 8 035 12 0 Sr Jo: Houstoun for Houst n & Newark . 3492 3 4 209 10 0 Patrick Fliming of Barochan 0767 13 4 046 1 0 Alex r Porterfield of Fullwood 0726 6 8 043 12 0 Hall of Fullbar 0160 0 0 009 12 0 Claud Alpxandv of Npwtnwii 0106 13 4 006 8 0 Thomas Wallace of Ellersly 0350 0 0 021 0 0 Magistrats of Pasley 1053 6 8 063 4 0 AIpy* Rivsbain of Splviland 0166 13 4 010 0 0 George Houstoun of Johnstn paying for Quarrel t n 1GQ5 0566 13 4 040 0 0 Sli* Tohn Shaw of frvppnopk and Wat erst oun 1986 13 4 119 12 0 Amriilialrl Crawfnrd of Anphnanis . \l L ill UiUvi vi a tt i ill u. xji. i i uvxiiiciiiio 0866 13 4 052 0 0 William Blair of that Tlk VY IxxxcLlll AJldll VJi LllclL X1IV • ■ 0383 6 8 023 0 0 William Hamilton of Orbistoun 2927 13 4 175 13 0 Tnhii w\\ i*c Via i n of Ri nrV» T^AtAT 1 InvictiA in tq l vi n n' -LUX CLcI VvllllSLIC 111 Ictlllll^, VJVJ K o n Tr» n nnnv in mi 1U a UUU1 lllclll, . . 00 n V ' Ak IC ll riflfPriPTi hvpd IVllUtllLIlCll UlCU^ ... 00 1 X V/ Kilb bred, .... 00 1 () X U fJ Willi llCllC 111 J_jVJ1^11C1 JjIUC «, • • 01 o Kf Kilb bred 1 V 1 1 17 UiCLl, .... 00 1 o r PliA cni ll r\ i pre it T^i milisi vtfin J. 11C SV/LlllllCl ?> (l L JL/LllllUdl LUll, 00 V/V/ 12 X/w V / Snpnt wlipn T ^'hiiblpn sit T)ii m barton OLICT11L >» 11VT11 X oLdUlCU at A-J Lllll MtXL LV/11, 00 5 4 H r»T* vATvAtf li vii Ante orim i^Ulllg cllllX CUllllH^, inn tlip hnsit cVllLl Ull IM/cll. ... 00 o Ol 1 Ait or rl vi ri L* m mi Air in T4 rnietnim r^±. x_iCi l ui en i luviiiunc y in xxuusia'liii, . 01 V/ ± 4 V To T\ il hftvplipii bvpH -M- yj jvii ljcxi v^i icii uicuj ... 00 o 23. To Peter Boyn, the fool, 00 1 () To Pasley bred, 00 2 0 26. To James Mure for a pair of Shoo's gotten about 20 days since, 01 16 0 27. To my wife, .... 30 0 0 28. To Kilbarchen bred, . 00 1 0 1674. Janry. 1. To my sister Rebecca for her nuir- gift, .... 02 16 0 To my sister Jean, 00 8 0 To Jonet, .... 00 14 0 To Marion, .... 00 12 0 To Anne, .... 01 0 0 To Katherin Browne, 01 10 0 To Patrik Cristie, . oo' o 4 To James Forgie, 00 6 S To Peter Patisoun, . 01 0 0 To W m Hopkin, in payment of a glasse of ink he bought me, 00 0 8 32 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1674 J any. 3. To Mr Alex r Forbes, in payment of 2 dozen of penns, . £00 1 0 4. To Kilbarchen bred, . 00 2 0 y. Spent m Kilbarchen, . 00 1 A 10 0 11. To Kilb bred, 00 1 0 13. To Pasley bred, 00 0 0 15. To my mother in pt of boording, 64 0 0 18. To Kilb bred, 00 1 0 23. To Pasley bred, 00 1 0 Spent at Pasley, 00 2 0 24. To Matthew Allason to pay his fraught in going over to Law, 00 1 4 To Kilbar bred, 00 1 8 28. bent to Glasgow tor a horse comb, 00 13 4 30. To Kilb bred, 00 1 0 1. To Kilbar bred, 00 1 0 6. To Pasley bred, 00 1 0 sent to Glasgow tor a horse brush, . 00 15 0 8. To Kilbarchen bred, . 00 1 0 t 0 rii T7" "ill 1 13. To Kilb bred, A A 00 1 0 To Kilb bred, 00 1 0 17. To a poor man that had a Testimonial, 00 4 0 20. To Kilbar bred, 00 1 0 Spent at Kilbarchen with Barochan, . 00 10 0 22. To Kilbarchen bred, . 00 1 0 24. Sent to Pasley with William C lining - ham, tailour, for furnishing to the altering my mourning cloke, for ten dozen buttons, 45s. ; tor ane yard of silk, 21s. 4d. ; for threed, 4s. ; tor a quarter and a halt 01 serge, 15s. ; tor waltm, ds. ; mde 111 nam, .... 0 25. To James Black, smith, in paymt of acompt as follows : — 1. Horse shooing since June 10, 1673, 05 13 0 2. Some of the mails given to my study, .... 01 9 2 3. My study door bands, 00 13 4 1674] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 4. For 2 snecks and 2 locks, . 5. Other little small things, . Febry. 27. Sent to Glasgow for 6 ell of girth- ing, 13s. ; for 2 taggs, 4s. ; for four girth heads, 2s. ; inde of all, . Given Matth Allason that bought them, To Kilbarchen bred, . To Cunninghamheid to cast at th cock, Sent to Glasgow to buy ratt poison, To Kilbarchen bred, . To Kilb bred, To Pasley bred, My reckning in Thomas Wilson's, To the stabler boy there, To Kilbarchen bred and a poor man, Given to a poor man at the gate, Sent to Glasgow for 3 quair paper, To Kilbarchen bred, . To my wife to give in charity to the relict and child of a minister called Mr. Ja Dunbar, . To Kilbarchen bred, . For sharping my razor, To Pasley bred, My Reckning in Tho Wilson's, To the stabler at Glasgow at David Cuningham's burial, To the bred at the bridge port in Glasgow, .... To Gavin Moodie for his prognostica- tion, .... To Kilbarchen bred, . To a poor woman with a Testi- monial, .... To Kilbarchen bred, . c March 1. 3. 7. 8. 13. 15. 22. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. April 3. 5. 8. 10. 12. im 6 8 00 7 0 00 19 0 00 1 0 00 1 0 00 1 0 00 00 00 00 00 00 2 0 00 12 0 00 1 0 00 1 4 00 1 0 00 13 6 00 1 0 06 3 0 00 1 0 00 2 0 1 0 6 8 00 2 0 00 0 10 00 0 6 00 0 10 00 4 0 00 1 0 34 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1674 April 16. Sent to Glasgow by William Hopkin for a qrter pound of sweet hair powder, .... £00 9 0 18. To a poor woman in the paroch, 00 3 4 19. To Kilbarchen bred, . 00 1 0 23. To Wm Cuningham, Tailour, in gratuity, having fied him to be my man, .... 00 6 8 Sent in to Glasgow to my cusing Richard to give the post for me as I employ him, . 00 18 0 To Wm. Hopkin that he gave for sharping my razor yesterday at Pasley, .... 00 2 0 24. To a poor man at the gate, . 00 0 6 26. To Kilb bred and a poor man, 00 1 4 29. To a poor man at the gate, . To a blind scholar in Barochan's land, called Wm Jamieson, in 00 0 4 charity, .... 00 13 4 1. To Kilb bred, To lio*^ Cuningham, Apothecar, for 00 1 0 ane use of my wife's, 01 10 0 3. To Kilb bred, 00 1 0 5. To my wife, . ». 08 0 0 7. Spent where I stabled at Kilmacolm, 00 5 2 To two poor men there, 00 0 8 8. To Kilbarchen bred, . 00 1 0 10. To Kilb bred, 00 0 10 13. For three fish hooks, . To a poor man, David Hay, that had 00 0 8 a testimonial from Arskin, 00 6 0 15. To the bred and poor folk in Pasley, .... 00 1 10 Spent at Pasley where we lighted, 00 2 0 To Matthew Allason to help him to a pair shoos, being to run to Free- land with me, ... 00 12 0 17. To Kilbarchen bred or box, . 00 1 0 DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 35 May 18. For a horn comb that Wm Cuningham had bought me at Glasgow on May 13, 1674, . . . £00 11 0 A pair stirrup leathers, . . 00 12 0 Reins to a snifle bitt, . . 00 8 6 Spent by John Fleming and the horse in Glasgow when getting them, . 00 1 10 19. For 2 whangs for girths sowing, . 00 0 6 To a poor woman at the gate, . 00 0 8 To Wm Cuningham to buy 4 ell stuff to be a Livery coat, 42s. ; for thread and wax candle, 5s. 4d. ; a chappin of ale drunk, Is. ; and for making the coat, 12s. ; inde in haill for the sd coat, . . 03 0 0 20. To John Lyle for boots and shoos mending, . . . 00 3 0 To Wm Cuningham furder to help him to some things, . . 00 10 0 To John Fliming to by a pr shoos to himself with, . . 01 10 0 21. To my cusings, Wm Cuningham and Wm Shaw, at Renfrew school, . 00 12 0 To the Ferryboat of Renfrew for carrying us over, 5 horse and 9 persons, . . . 00 12 0 To a poor woman to pay her fraught, 00 1 0 To 4 poor folk on the way to Stir- ling, . . . 00 1 4 Payed of custom at Cartintalloch, . 00 1 8 For our bait at Arnbrue, . . 01 17 6 To Mat Allason for drink by the way, 00 4 8 22. For our quarters at Stirling that night : — Man's meat, 3 lb., 4s. 6d. ; 5 horse meat, 2 lb., 5s. ; a mutchkin of wine, 5s. ; a glasse broken, 6s. 8d. ; drink silver to the Lasse, 6s. 6d. ; to the stabler lad, 6s. ; inde in haill, . . . 06 13 8 36 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS May 22. To the beggars at Stirling and on the way to Freeland, . £00 3 2 For our bait at Blaekfoord, . 01 1 0 23. To my wife, .... 72 0 0 To a poor man at Freeland gate, 00 0 4 To Cuninghd to give the bred of Erne, .... 00 0 4 26. To the Ferryboat man of Erne, 00 6 0 27. To a poor lad at Freeland gate, 00 0 6 Lost at Bullets among our servants, . 00 4 0 28. To the ferryboatman at Erne, 00 4 6 To a poor woman at Maillart, 00 0 8 For 4 pair of shivrons at Perth, 01 16 0 To a poor man and poor woman, 00 0 10 To the ferryboats of Tay at our going to and coming from Scoone, 01 4 0 To the beddall of Scoon for letting us see the kirk, 00 13 4 To a barber for polling CuningbxPs hair, .... 00 9 0 Payed of custom for 5 horse at Erne bridge, .... 00 1 8 29. To the man that keeps Freeland Haugh, .... 00 13 4 To a poor woman at the gate, 00 0 4 To the fooll at Freeland, 00 0 10 To a poor man at the gate, . 00 0 2 30. To John Fliming for a pint of ale he gave the man he got straw from, .... 00 1 4 Also for horse meat he payed when we were at Scoon, 00 2 4 To the sd John, of old debt I was owing him since Octr last, 00 2 8 To the sd John for getting a tee mended, .... 00 2 0 1. For my bait at the kirk of Beath in Fife on my way to Edinburgh, 00 7 4 2. For my Fraught at the Queensferry, . 00 14 0 1 674] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 37 2. lo John r liming for bread and drink J.1 l X? I i i i the evening before and that mor- ning, .... £00 3 0 To a barber for rasing me, 00 6 8 lor a sword and belt to Cumngham- heid, .... 05 10 0 Or drink silver lor the sd sword, 00 2 0 XT' J 1 11 r or a dozen lemons and dozen orangers, 02 4 0 O i ill y 1 1 11 i i 1 Spent at the Chocollattee house, 00 4 0 6. "Tjl i _ * 1 i 11 1 *11 " T.^ 1* ror two nights chamber maul m F,din- burgh, .... 00 16 0 T A • 1 *1 J. J.1 1 Drink silver to the lasse, uu a O 0 For two bughts of confits to take to Jbreelana, .... 00 13 A For a pair of shoots, . 02 1 A For 2 nights 1 meat to 2 horses, 01 16 u J-1- 0.11 11 i? J * 1 '1 lo the stabler lad of drink silver, 00 3 0 lo Fasley post to carry a letter, 00 2 u Given to beggars in r,din burgh and on my way to r reeland, 00 4 10 ror my Fraught at the Queensferry, . 00 13 4 ror our bait at Keltie haugli, 00 12 U 4. 1 o beggars at r reeland gate, . 00 1 u ror a remove to the white horse, 00 1 u 6. nr.-! rr>i c i i 1 1 i i For a Threeve of straw to the stoned horse, .... 00 7 n u For two new shoo's to the gray horse, 00 10 0 7. m ill ii ■ t\ 1 • 1 lo the box and beggars at Dron kirk, 00 3 o o 8. f~r\ * /» ■ ti 1 1 lo a poor wife at r reeland, . 00 0 a O 9. Given of drink silver in Corby, 02 16 0 To a poor man upon the way, 00 0 10. Given of drink silver in iNaughton, . 02 16 U 11. SI ' /» 1 • 1 •! • T T 111 •11 Given of drink silver m Hallhill, 02 16 A Given of drink silver in Rankillo, 02 13 4 To a boy in Rankillo that shure grasse, .... 00 12 0 To a poor woman by the way, 00 0 4 13. Cuninghamheid to give a poor woman, 00 1 0 14. To the box of Drone and poor folk, . 00 4 8 38 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS June 15. To John Cuningham, tailour at Free- land, for sowing a litle, . . i?00 6 0 To a poor man at Freeland Gate, . 00 0 10 16. For smith work about our horse shoo's and maill in order to our away coming, . . . 00 15 0 To John Miming for straw he bought to the stoned horse at Naughton, . 00 2 0 For smiddie work lie payed, . . 00 1 0 For a threeve of straw again to the stoned horse while we were at Freeland,. . . 00 7 0 For seven 4pits of bear to the sd horse, 00 17 6 To a poor man at Freeland gate, . 00 0 6 Left of drink money in Freeland, . 03 14 0 To Cuninghd to give Henry the Groom, . . . . 00 13 4 To the man that keeps the haugh, . 00 12 0 17. To a poor man by the way to Burley Gate, ... . 00 0 4 To a poor man at Burley Gate, . 00 0 4 18. Left of drink money in Burley, . 02 16 0 To a foot boy at Burley that drew my horse, * . . . 00 13 8 To beggars between Burley and Bruntiland, . . 00 1 0 To the man that shewed us Lesly house, 02 10 0 For our bait at Brunt island, . 01 0 0 To the beggars there, . . 00 0 10 For our fraught to Leith, 5 horses and 9 persons, . . 03 0 0 19. For our quarters at Leitli the night preceeding, . . . 02 18 4 Of drink silver to the Lasse, . . 00 6 0 For 5 horse meat that night, . 02 0 0 20. For a horn comb and nightcap, . 01 2 0 For a stick of wax, . . 00 6 0 Lost at bowling green, . . 00 12 0 Payed of bowll Maill. . . 00 3 0 i6/4] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK For a oreiiirer to Cuninsrhd. oL \J\J 1 1 o For a pint of beer to Supper, 00 \J\J 9 At 4, For three dish chocolattee, 00 \J\J a o n u For razing and haircutting*, 00 o o For a new padd, 02 8 0 For 3 of us, Cuninghd, my sister, and my self, our seeing the Play, 04 8 () To Andrew Purdie, tailour, his men, of drink silver, for severall suits of cloaths making*. 02 lfi o Spent in companie with J. Stewart, 00 13 8 For 4 liorse meat in the Park, 5 nights at 4s. a night, 04 o o For my stoned horse at hard meat, the sd 5 nights at 12s. a night, 03 o o For two nights 1 bedding in the stablers to Mr. Alex Forbes r ' 00 4 f\ \J For 2 days 1 dinner to »Tohn Flimin°* and IVlathew Allason, 00 18 o For mending the maill pullion, 00 2 o For a shoo and remove to sQme horses, 00 5 o To the stabler lad of drink silver, 00 6 0 For our nifflirs onartPTN /it "Rlak- burn, 02 18 () To thp lflfl fnr slipivmo' o*r/issp 00 6 0 Fov out* o/nt optwivt /inn i-rl/iso'ow VJ L Ulil KJCXl 1/ Uvl/>* 1AL 1 L 1 1 V i V J ltl~^V/ >> ^ . 00 17 () Tn lnv wifp to onvp P)v Tiivsb/in" , s nurse, 02 18 o (t-ivpii nf drink silvpr at Pollock YJI 1 > V 1 1 V 1 1 VI 1 111 IV Oil V V 1 t Kj t A WllWVIV^ * 02 18 0 To a nnnr in an c/illpd #To lYTmr l V / t 1* IV V 1 V 1 1 I11CL11 V ( C X _L V V- 1 V / IT 1 LI 1 1 , . 00 4 0 To Ma Allason for his running, 00 12 0 To Kilbarchen kirk box, 00 1 0 frivpn tn tnp Toot vpipp /it rTonstoiin 00 0 To mv TTnclp"s son to his fairinc* .A. W III \ 1 IV 1L O oWU^ l/w U10 liill 111^ ^ bought the worth of in sweeties, . 00 () 0 To the beggars at the race, . 00 1 4 I found my money to indrink, by mis- counting, the time I was in the east country, 06 17 () 40 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1674 3. To my wife, .... =£08 14 0 To my wife, .... 02 18 0 To Kilbarchen box, . 00 1 0 5. To Kilbar box, 00 1 0 10. To Pasley kirk box, . 00 1 0 To poor folk at Pasley, 00 1 0 My reckoning at Tho Wilson, 00 2 0 To the boy that drew my horse, 00 1 0 12." To Kilbarchen box, . 00 1 0 13. To my Mother in part of boarding, . 66 13 4 15. To John Shaw for milling 16 bolls meil, .... 00 16 0 17.yTo Kilbarchen box, 00 1 0 18. To my wife, .... 11 12 0 Sent to a post to carry something in to Edinburgh, 00 4 0 19. To Kilb box, .... 00 1 0 21. To Thomas Millar, cadger, for bring- ing a coffer home from Glasgow, . 00 12 0 24. To Pasley box and poor folk ther, 00 2 0 To my wife, .... 12 0 0 26. To Kilbarchen box, . 00 1 0 31. To Kilbar box, 00 1 0 After balancing my compts from the begin- ning of the book, and compting the money I have by me, I find them to jump. My Charge being, . £TH 12 2 My Discharge, . 526 17 0 My present money, . 250 15 2 August 1. To my Mother in real money, . 156 6 8 As also for which she took James Moodie her debtour, he owing me 13 0 0 This, with the compt of Fowlls and cheese, compleits a year's boarding. To John Lyle for making a slip to my sword, . . 00 6 0 2. To Kilbarchen box, . . 00 2 0 1 674] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 41 August 2. To Hugh Muir in part of payment of his compt, There was 72 lb. 10s. of that compt for my wife. To the woman that keeps the poor daft lad in Houstoun side, 5. For two pair of slight gloves, 7. To Pasley box and poor folk there, Payed in Tho: Wilsons, To my Man for stringing to my breech knees that he bought, For grasse he payed in Renfrew, 8. I gave him to drink about ane erraiK I sent him to Pasley, 9. To Pasley kirk box and poor folk, 11. To a poor woman at the gate, 14. To Pasley box and poor folk, Lost at tennies with Kilbirnie, Spent in Tho: Wilsons, To my wife to give Johnstoun's nurse To Kilbarchen box, . Left of drink silver at Kerilaw, To beggars that day, Payd for drink at Kilmars, . To Mr. Gab: Cuningham to give th< poor Lady Garriehorne, . 22. For two quair of paper, 23. To Pasley box and poor folk, Payd for drink, 24. For bred and drink at Dennestoun, 25. To Pasley box and poor folk, Payed for bred and drink there 26. To my wife, . 28. To my man to buy a pair shoo's to himself with all, . To him to buy spurs with, To Pasley box and poor folk, Payed for drink at Pasley, 29. To Pasley kirk box, . £133 6 8 00 4 0 00 5 0 00 2 6 00 2 0 00 2 6 00 1 0 00 2 0 00 2 0 00 2 0 00 2 0 01 13 6 00 2 0 01 10 0 00 1 0 01 0 0 00 1 6 00 2 8 05 16 0 00 6 0 00 7 0 00 3 0 00 7 0 00 3 0 00 3 0 06 0 0 01 4 0 00 6 s 00 o 10 00 o 0 00 6 0 42 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1674 Augt. 29. To Jas: Stirling, our minr s son, . =£ J 00 6 0 30. To Pasley Kirk box, it being a com- munion day, . . . 01 10 0 31. To the sd kirk box, . . 00 6 0 To the officer that keeps the Councell loft, . . . 00 12 0 To the beggars on the 3 preaching days, . . . 00 6 2 Payd for our 2 nights' lodging at Pasley, my wife, my sister, and myself, and servants, . . 04 13 0 To Pasley Almshouse, . . 00 1 0 Sept. 1. To the beggars at the Lady Dunlop's burriall, . ... 00 2 0 For corn to my horses at Irwin, . 00 7 0 2. To Kilwinning kirk box, . . 00 2 0 To beggars at Kerilaw, . . 00 2 0 4. To a poor woman called Susanna Cuningham, . . 01 17 0 To Pasley box and poor folk, . 00 2 0 For half hundred pears, . . 00 5 0 For a new snafle bitt sent to Glas- gow, . . . 00 18 0 To Mat Allason for buying it, . 00 2 0 5. To Pasley box and poor folk there, . 00 2 10 To William Moodie for running to Pollock with a letter, . . 00 6 8 6. To Kilbarchen box, . . . 00 1 0 7. To Pasley box and poor folk, . 00 1 10 8. To Pasley box and poor folk, . 00 2 8 For a chappin of wine ther, . . 00 6 0 To the boatman at Renfrew when I put my Lady Ruthven over Clyd, . . . 00 3 0 Payd in James Paterson's in Pasley, . 00 7 0 To my man, which he gave for remov- ing horse shoos at Kilwinning, . 00 3 6 9. To beggars on my way to Glasgow, . 00 2 4 1 6/4] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 43 Sept. 9. For 2 dozen of apples at Glasg, To Samuel Bryee in charitie, 11. To Kilbarchen box, . 12. To a poor blind man at the gate, 13. To Kilbar box, For our drink between Sermons at Kil- barchen, the Laird and ladv being at Pasley, 16. To a poor man at the gate, . Sent to Pasley to sharp 2 razors 4s. and Is. in drink, . Sent to Paslev for ink, 17. To a poor man at the gate, . For pears and aples at Pasley, 19. To Andrew Cochran, wright, to buy nails and bands for work in my studie till accompt, To beggars at Barochan, being tin day after Akenheid's marriage, 20. To Kilbarchen box, . 24. To a poor man at the gate, . To Pasley box and poor folk there, 27. To Kilbar box and a poor man, Oct. 1. To a poor man at the gate, . To a poor man called J. Cuning ham, 2. To Ciininghamheid to send to Green ock to buy chastens with, ther was no chastens gotten, so my wife got the 6d., 3. To a poor man at the gate, . To Andrew Cochran to buy 200 moe litle nails to my work, 4. To Kilbar box, 5. To John Speir, notar, for some litle businesse he did me, To a poor wife at the gate, . 9. To Pasley box and poor folk. 44 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1674 Oct. 9. For 6 quair of paper in Pasley, . £0\ 7 0 For pellitory to my wife, . . 00 1 0 Payd in J. Paterson's, . . 00 2 0 To my wife, . . . 12 0 0 11. To Kilbar box, . . 00 2 0 16. To Alex Brisban in gratuity, . 01 9 0 To the sd Alex to buy a lock with for my study door, . . 00 12 0 To Hugh Muir, merchand in Edin- burgh, . . . 81 10 0 This, with 18 lb. 10s., which, at my wife's desire, I keept from him for some plenishing lie got of Cuning- hamheid's, compleitly pays his compts. IO. _LO lYUOcll. OOX, uu 0 .1 19 To John Hick for lavino* marrhps tn the Ash mid ding, 00 2 0 20. Sent to Glasgow for 4 Locks, 02 0 0 To Richard Cuningham in gratuity, . 01 10 0 To the boat of Arskin at my going to and coming from Dumbarton, 00 12 0 To the souldiers in the castle, 00 12 0 Spent where I stabled at Dumbarton, 00 8 0 To the poor folk by the way, 00 ] 4 To Gavine Moodie for the foir yeard grasse in summer, 01 6 8 23. To John Fliming in compleit pay- ment of all his lies, 27 0 0 24. For 2 Ells half Ell of Rugg to be a coat, .... 05 0 0 25. To Kilbarchen Box, . 00 1 0 29. To Robert Cuningham for the seall he caused make to me, 05 16 6 Left in Kerilaw of Drink money, 01 10 0 30. To Kilbar: box, 00 1 0 To a poor man at the gate, . 00 0 6 1 674] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 45 Oct. 31, 1674. — I balanced my compts since July 31. My lying money the s d July 31, 1674, being, . . £250 15 2 My receits since being, . 563 2 4 Inde, ^813 17 6 My discharge, . . 499 12 6 So rests, i, J 314 5 0 After compt of my money I find I have, . . 314 4 0 So inlacks 12d. V/rr- 1 ^Ot. 1. Inlack of the preceding compt, £00 1 0 lo Kilbarchen Box, . 00 Q 0 Q For 2 gravats from Edin 1 , 0 0 To a poor man at gate, 00 0 6 4. Sent to Glasgow for 5 dozen of rings to my shottles, 01 10 0 6. To Kilbar: box, 00 1 0 8. To Kilb: box, 00 1 0 9. To poor men at the gate, 00 1 4 11. To my wife, being to pay Katherin Brown her fies, 67 6 8 13. To Kilbirnie's man at my trysting 2 grew whelps from him, 00 9 0 15. To Kilbar: box, 00 Q 0 16. To Ja: Muir for 2 pair shoo's, 1 pair whereof was gotten in May last, . 03 4 8 14. For a horse shoo at Loghinzieugh, 00 3 0 16. To Ro Hamletoun, Couper, for dress- ing an old Fatt for the keeping of my horse corn, 00 14 0 17. To ,M r Patrick Simpson, min r at Kilmacolme, for 4 bolls 1 firlot teind meill, being the last half of Dennestoun teind for cropt 1673 (my tennent having payd the other half), the said meill being compted 46 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1674 at 7 lb. the boll, and 4 lb. of \ 1 1 < 1 1 • l;^ . .... 1 fj 0 AVUuvli, JLilc icll 11 IIILILII lease, UUL 1 LllLl IIOL sLctlltl W1LI1 Lilt: IIllIllaLcl. 1Q 1 .7. ^oiil - \~ r\ *i ivnn T 1V11* ft "V^llc /IT n*l*Dof OcIlL LO VTicLllgOW IOI O X^llS Ol glcclL \\ H c LO Lllc 1 lilt' !*» LOIlly allULLlco, 00 9 0 r Plioi*c» a\7£»c 1 0/ 1 /it tine mvriii fnr d"!*!! w 1 J1C1C IVdi) inll. \)l tlllft "^lltl! 11 11 OLlCVW to the horse. 19. For some naills to a horse shoo, 00 0 8 i* 1 ctl 111 111 U \> 11 1 W HUlll lit: ttltllv L 1 1 1 LI it 1 1 ii£i'i 1*1 11 l \~\ 1 m 01 Liie riu tun is 1 oougiit iroiii 111111. 1 ^ w 11 iOi*<3/iT u'Arfi M(TMiiTriT curn 1 rj VVllClt.l.'l HClC UUliyiH ftclWII, 13 6 ft 27. To my man, to give to Kilburnie's 111 p 11 'it Ins vpr'Pi vm cr tlip crrpw Illclil cvt lllo 1 CTV^l^l V 11 l£i tllC cIC>» wnplnc Tvnm In in nnw cont tot* \> lldljo 11 niii 111111, 11U >> otllt It^l . 00 6 0 /-CO . r |"V» T*T"l 1 l"l£J TY'llPll Tir»"V 1 U J.V11 Uctl C1IC11 JLMJA, . . 00 2 0 6. To Kilbar Box and a poor man, 00 2 4 7. To my wife, .... 12 0 0 a To a poor man at the gate, . To my man, at my wife's desire, to buy 00 0 4 some things for her at Glasgow, . 48 0 0 9. To M* W m Thomson, minister at Houstoun, I give the 5 lb. 16s. 2d. which on August 21 I have marked given to the Lady Garriehorn, it being retained by my father off the money he payed her, and so given me back again. Till now I 1674] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 47 have given it to the s d M r W m to send to a poor persecuted min 1 called M r Ale r Padie, who lies prisoner very closse in the Basse. 7"* . .„ 11 Veer. 11. lo ivilbar Box, Jtfvv 1 0 ror a pint 01 Ale at Kilbarenen, 00 0 13. To Pasley Kirk Box, . 00 3 0 Payed in 1 ho W llson s in Pasley, 00 4 4 15. To a poor man that had a testificat from the paroch of Dry men, 00 3 0 1 Q To Ja. Black, smith, in paymt of ane compt as follows : — 1. Jbor horse shooing since reb.25, 05 15 0 2. ror p l 01 bands to presses, 01 i *i 1 i A 4 6. ror a key to the lock 01 my Cornfatt, . 00 4 0 20. To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 21. To a poor sea-broken German, lo Jo. -Lyle ror my man s shoo s mend- 00 6 0 ing, .... 00 8 0 To the s d John for a spur leather to him, .... 00 2 0 To the s d Jo. for my slippers mending, and a tagg to a housing girth, 00 2 0 25. Given in contribution, with other gentlemen at Pollock, tor the re- lieving of one Matthew Stuart out of prison for debt, 01 9 0 26. To the violers at Pollock at Rossyth\s marriage .... 02 16 u 27. To the house of Drinksilver at the s d marriage, 05 12 0 To the boy that drew my horse at Pollock, .... 00 13 4 To Pasly Kirk box, . 00 6 0 29. To Ja. Black, smith, for a p r of good bands to my studie door, . 00 18 0 30. To his prentise of Drinksilver for a long time service, 00 4 6 48 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS A Collection of the depursments. Summa of the little of the year 1673 conteined in this book, ^107 2 10 of denursmpnts 1674 /m follows • S 1 1 vn * *\f\ fill AT1 1 HH1 • 'J till Iku J 1, . . . 7fi 17 Si i m * Fphn i 5\ tii k_/Ll±ll. JL \Z kJL 11(11 1 J* ... 17 13 It/ a u Sum: Martii, 08 9 8 Sum: Aprilis, 03 17 10 Sum: Maii, . 108 16 6 bum: Junn, 99 15 8 Sum: Julii, . 104 3 4 Sum: Augusti, . 334 1 0 Sum: Septembris, 19 2 10 Sum: Oetobris, 146 8 8 Sum: Novembris, . 131 15 6 Sum: Decembris, . 81 13 2 Sum: Anni 1674, . £1132 15 4 Sum: when the little of the year 1673 with it, . is joined . ^1239 18 2 A brief Not a how the fores i?1239, 18s. 2d. was expended. 1. There was of it given to my wife 2. My compts with merchands, tailors, shoo makers and apoth rs , 3. My expense for horse graith and them, 4. My expense in buying small things, 5. My expense about my study, 6. My charity, { f reater ' I -Lesser, 7. My gifts, . 8. My expense in Drinksilver, . 9. My expense in travelling, 10. Expense in Servants travelling, shooing £4,05 19 8 195 5 10 18 19 23 1 26 11 30 0 12 3 22 11 60 6 54 18 02 15 10 DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 49 11. Other incident expense, 12. Our boarding expense, 13. Expense in my man's fies, 14. Expense in teinds paying, 15. Indrink of my money, £11 0 10 304 0 0 31 10 8 33 15 10 06 18 8 Sum, . . . ^1239 18 2 DISCHARGE, 1675. 1. To Pasley Kirk box and poor folk, . ^00 2 0 For 60 shilling naills, 120 6 sh: naills, and 120 4 sh naills, 00 16 0 To Tho: Wilson's bairn in Nuregift, . 00 2 0 Payd in Tho: Wilson's, 00 4 0 To the Stabler boy, . 00 1 0 To my sister Rebecca in nuregift, 02 18 0 To my sister Jean in nuregift, 02 8 0 To my sister Jonet, . 00 18 0 To Marion, .... 00 14 0 To Anne, .... 00 12 0 To Cuninghamheid in nuregift, 01 10 0 To my man for his nuregift, . 00 6 0 To James Farq r for his nuregift, 00 6 0 To James Black for a lock and some other small things for my study, . 00 13 4 3. To Kilbarchen box, . 00 2 0 4. To Jo: Love, smith, for a pair of thongs to the hall, 01 10 0 To the sd John for a pr thongs and shovell to my study, 01 17 0 To his son in drinkmoney, 00 4 0 To Ja: Black, for helping a lock, 00 1 0 6. To my wife, . 20 0 0 8. To Kilbarchen box, . 00 1 0 9. To my mother in part of our boarding. 133 6 8 10. To Kilbar. box, 00 o 0 1) CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1675 13. To Pasley box anil poor folk, £00 3 4 For straw to my horses at Pasley, 00 2 0 To And: Rodger to give the Post with a letter to Edin r , 00 2 0 17. To Kil. box and poor folk, . 00 2 0 18. To Tho: Wilson's boy, for bringing the letters from Pasley post, 00 4 r a u 22. To beggars at the gate, 00 1 J. 0 To John Forfar, for the bitt glasse to the Wardrob window and mend- ing the window of the chamber beneath it, 01 0 0 24. The Pasley Kirk box, 00 5 0 To Pasley Post with letters to Edin- burgh, .... 00 4 0 Paid in Tho: Wilson's, 00 2 0 30. For a prognostication, 00 0 4 Sent to Pasley by W. N. Cuningham for some little things to my wife, . 01 a \j 31. To Pasley Post with a letter to Edin- burgh, .... 00 2 0 2. To Andrew Cochrane, wright, for 12 days' work at my study, . 04 Ifi 0 For glew he bought to the sd work, . 00 4 0 To the sd Andrew for a standard kind of candlestick lie made me, 01 4 0 5. To my wife, .... 20 0 0 7. Sent in to Pasley Post with a letter, . 00 2 0 To Kilbarchen Kirk box, 00 0 0 9. To a poor man at the gate, . 00 a u 0 12. To Kilb: box, 00 1 0 To Jo: Lyle for a pr. Shoos to my man, 01 10 0 To the sd John for mending my man's shoos, .... 00 6 0 Item to him for mending my boot, 00 1 0 13. To the s d John for mending my shoo's, 00 6 0 Sent in to Pasley post witli a letter, . 00 2 0 To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 51 Feb. 15. To Tho: Wilson's boy for bringing* me a letter that came from Edinburgh, <£00 2 0 For 3 ells and 3 quarters of Holland that my wife bought at Kilbarchen to be my sleeve, . 07 10 o 16. For a pynt of ale at Kilbarchen, 00 2 4 To a poor man at the gate, . 00 6 0 To Pasley Kirk box, . 00 4 0 To the Sherif s nurse in drinksilver, . 01 10 0 Payd in Thomas Wilson's, 00 4 4 21. To Pasley Kirk box and beggars, 00 2 0 Spent in Pasley that day, 00 5 2 22. Sent in to Edin r to my father (upon his letter for money), which will pay so far of the old debt I am owing him, 233 6 8 To the post of Pasley with a letter, . 00 3 4 26. To Kilbar. box and a poor man, 00 2 0 28. To Kilbar. box, 00 2 0 March 2. To a poor boy at the gate, 00 2 0 To Pasley Kirk box, . 00 2 0 Spent at the Tennice that day, 02 9 0 Payd in Tho: Wilson's, 00 8 0 6. For confections at our own gate, 00 7 0 7. To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 9. To a poor man at the gate, . , 00 2 0 10. To the poor daft lad in Houstonsyd, . To a new Curpell to my maill 00 1 0 pillion, .... 00 3 4 12. To a poor w r ife at the gate, 00 1 0 To Kilbarch: box, 00 1 0 13. For a quart of ale at the hunting, 00 4 0 14. To Kilb box 00 2 o 15. Spent at Pasley, 00 2 0 To my wife, .... 22 16 0 To Mat. Allison for a little service . 00 1 0 18. Given as my half of a quarter's board- ing at School of my Uncle William's son. .... 06 13 4 52 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS 22. 25. 26. March 18. Spent at the Mill of Cart at horse- buying, 19. To Pasley Kirk box, . To James Hamiltoun in buit betwixt horses, To his man in drink money, To the s d James in buit betwixt bridles, Spent in Tho: Wilson's. To Kilbar: box, To Pasley Post for carrying some things to my wife out of Edin burgh, For a pair of shoos to my wife, To a poor man at the gate, . To Pasley box and poor folk, . For 3 fathoms of cord to the horse collars,- . To my man for a sheet of paper bought, . To Kilbar: box, For 2 ounces tobac: to Ga: Moodie, To a poor woman at the gate, Spent at the hunting at Kilbar, Sent to Glasgow for a pr shoos, To Pasley Kirk box, . For straw to the horses at Pasley, For 5 firlots corn to my horse, To Barochan's Quarriours, To Kilbar: box, To a poor man at the gate, . To Kilbar: box, To Kilbar: box, To beggars these two days in Cuning hamheid, . To Ro* Cuningham, apothecar, in pay of his compt ; my part of it, My wife's part of it, . 18. To Kilbarchen box, . 28. 29. 31. April 1. 2. 8. 9. 11. 15-16. 17. 1 6; 5] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 53 April 20. Sent to Renfrew to answer at the head court by my man Wm. Cuning- May ham, .... i?nn dtUU o A u io a poor woiiiciii dL tiie gate, nn uu A u 21. Given at my answering to the Regali- tie Court at 1 asley, 00 u 0 To beggars at Pasley, aa 00 1 1 4 Jraya in l no. >viisons, aa UU a A A u lo my wire, .... OA 2U 0 u 23. Spent at Tennice with young Pollock, m Ul In A u I a flip iviflcsnns nl" T^'IcIaat Kn H rrn xu tiic iiids&ijiio ttL x ciaitry uiiuge, Drinksilver, nn UU U A u HPn f\ "nan* nf lini'sip sIippts UU u Jraya. in i no. vvnsons, nn uu a O io JviiDar. dox, nn uu A u To a poor man at Dennestoun, nn uu n u o o 28. For a drink at the delivery of money to me, .... i A.\j. _lo a pooi man upon ine wdy, 00 uu n u D 30. To Pasley Kirk box and Almshouse, . nn UU Q i n 1U O TV* TTilKo*. l-.^.x- )Z. lo Jviioar oox, nn uu o A U To a poor woman at the gate, nn uu U o 5. For a boll corn to my horse, . no u% A U A u To James King, maisson, at my tryst- ing him to build a leaping-on- stone at Kilb, 00 uu a u u /. lo Kilbar box, on UU n 1 A u 8. To a poor woman at the gate, 00 uu 1 J. n V/ lo Kilbar Box, UU 2 A u To a poor woman at the gate, on UU A u O Sent to Pasley for oil to my horse- legg, . . . nn 0 n u io. iouo. i^rawimu lor oieecuiig m» iuul. 00 a \j o For qr. pound butter to be a plaister, 00 1 0 14. To Ja: Black for meat to his horse and man that ledd stones to the leaping-on-stone, . 00 4 0 14. To Kilb. box and beggars, 00 1 8 To a poor boy at the gate, . 00 0 6 54 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS May 16. To Kilbar: box, 17. Drinksilver at Dumbarton Castle, Payd of fraught at the broad ferry for going and coming with my wife, 18. To beggars on the way to Dunlop, 19. To James Farq r , who kept our horses at the ferry side of Dumbarton, To a poor woman at the gate, 20. To James King, maisson, as price agreed upon for building the leap- ing-on-stone at Kilbarchen, 22. To my man for his bountie shoos for the summer terme 1675, . 23. To Kilb box, . 24. Sent to Glasgow for a gang of shoo' to Cuninghamheid's pownie, It: Sent for half dozen girth heads, 26-27. To poor folk while I was in Cuning ham, 27. For a pint of bear on the way home, 28. To James Spreuill for wood-cutting, To the sd James for 3 ounces white ^00 2 0 01 9 0 00 18 0 00 0 8 00 2 0 00 1 0 03 6 8 02 0 0 00 2 0 00 6 0 00 2 0 00 1 6 00 2 8 01 9 0 June soap, .... 00 4 0 29. To my wife, .... 20 0 0 30. To Kilbarchen box, . 00 4 0 1. Given as my half of the 2 d quarterns boarding of my Uncle William's son, . . 06 13 4 To a poor boy at the gate, 00 0 6 2. Sent to Glasgow for 4 saddle baggs, . 00 8 0 3. To Kilbar: box, it being a fast, 00 6 0 4. To beggars on the way to and from Cuningham, 00 1 0 6. To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 7. To poor folk at the gate, 00 3 4 8. To poor folk, 00 0 8 9. To William Birkmire in eharitie, 00 13 4 To a beggar at the gate, 00 0 6 11. To Kilbar: box and a beggar, 00 1 4 DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 55 11. To one Humfrey Barbour, horse- cowper, for a White Naigg, «£90 0 0 Sent to his man in drink money, 00 4 6 For a quart of ale at bargaining, 00 4 8 12. For a little book called " The 2 d part oi the iultillmg oi the Scriptures, 01 0 0 13. To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 To the Sklaiters for my chamber lum- sweeping, .... 00 4 0 16. To poor folk, 00 2 4 To a poor man called Ja: Cuningham, who had a cancer in his craig, 00 12 0 17. To a poor man at the gate, . 00 1 0 18. To poor folk in Cuningham, . 00 1 0 20. To Kilbar. box, 00 2 0 21. To Pasley Post with a letter to Edin- burgh, .... 00 2 0 22. Spent where I stabled at Grinock, 00 2 4 To a poor woman at our own gate, . 00 1 0 23. Sent to Glasgow for an ounce of powder, . ... 00 1 0 It: for a pound of lead, 00 3 0 24. To a poor man at the gate, . 00 0 6 25. To Kilbar: box and poor folk, 00 1 4 26. To some Souldiers, upon their request, 00 6 0 27. Kilbar: box, .... 00 2 0 30. To poor folk at the gate, 00 0 10 29. To poor John Suderland, 00 4 0 To James Cowie's bairns in Fairing, . 00 2 0 30. To Will: Shaw, Bargaran's son, 00 6 0 1. To Kilbar: box and beggars, . 00 2 6 4. To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 5. To Killillan box and a beggar, 00 o o 9. To Kilbar: box and beggars, . 00 1 4 To Mr. Wm. Lang, Schoolmr of Kil- macolme, as 2 years' and 4 half's" fie ending at Whits 1675, for Dennestoun, 04 0 0 11. To Kilbar: box, 00 3 4 56 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1675 Juhf 13. To Pasley kirk box, beggars, and Almshous, roo 2 4 For some fresh herrings at Pasley, 00 3 4 To Ja: Weir, tailour, for a pair of hose, 00 6 0 15. To Kilb: box, it being our Communion fast, • 00 6 2 16. For a pint of ale at Kilbarclien, 00 2 4 To 2 beggars on the way, 00 0 6 To Kilb: box on the Communion Saturday, .... 00 3 4 18. To Kilb: box on the Communion day, 01 0 8 19. Sent to Pasley poet with a letter to Edinburgh, 00 3 4 To Kilb: box on the Communion Monday, .... 00 3 4 To the beggars on the 3 Comm: days, 00 4 6 21. To my wife, .... 20 0 0 28. To Pasley Kirk box and beggars, 00 1 4 25. To Kilbar box, 00 2 0 27. Sent to Glasgow for a new Curpell and Tee, . . 02 8 0 It: Sent for quarter pd of Gun Powder, 00 3 0 29. To a broken, distrest familie begging, 00 6 0 To Kilbar: box. 00 1 0 Spent at Kilbarclien, . 00 2 2 81. To Margt Fleming at Kilb: in charitie, 00 12 0 To common beggars at the gate in smalls during the month of July, . 00 3 0 1. To Kilbarch. box, 00 1 0 To my mother as the price of 5 firlots of my ferme meall rec d by her more nor condition, and so allowed in part or our boarding silver. 15 0 0 To my mother in reall money, to com- pleit a year's boarding from Whits 1674 till Whits 1675, 156 12 8 3. Sent to Pasley for 3 ells stringing to my Breech-knees, . 00 2 0 6. For 7 quair of paper at Pasley, 01 8 0 1 67 5] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 57 Aug. 6. To Mr Gab: Cuningham to give a poor man whom he did not name, .... X>01 9 0 To Pasley Kirk box and beggars, 00 1 8 For pears at Pasley, . . 00 1 0 8. To Kilbar: box, . . 00 2 0 11. To blind Wm Jamieson in charitie, . 00 6 0 14. To Jo: Lyle for rosert to a horse- 00 0 8 -toto? .... To my wife, at her desire, for her son's use, being that which I was owing her son by retaining so much of what I was owing Hugh Muir in Oct 1 " last, the sd Hugh having gotten the worth of it of Cuning- hamheid's plenishing, so this falls in to be reckoned among my ex- penses for mereh: ware, . . 18 10 0 To J. Black and his man to drink, . 00 2 4 15. To Kilbar: box, . . 00 2 0 17. Given to help to build the bridge upon Grvf at Dennestoun, . 06 13 4 20. To Pasley Kirk box and a beggar, . 00 1 4 For an ounce of Cannel to my wife, . 00 13 0 For Apples at Paslev, . • 00 2 0 Payd in Tho: Wilson's, . . 00 2 0 22. To Pasley Kirk box and a beggar, . 00 2 0 To the Post with a letter to Edin- burgh, . . . 00 2 0 Payd in Thos. Wilson's, . . 00 5 6 26. To James Cowie for pens, . . 00 6 0 27. Sent to Pasley for turpentin to a horse-legg, . . 00 3 0 28. To William Brown for dressing the sdlegg, . . . 00 6 0 For 2 timber combs for my head, . 00 7 6 To Kilbar: box, . . 00 2 0 31. Sent to Pasley for pears, . . 00 6 0 To beggars at the gate that month, . 00 2 0 58 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1675 Sept. 3. To Pasley box and beggars, . For pears at Pasley, . To my man to buy pears with, Payd in Tho. Wilson's, 4. To Wm Brown for dressing a horse le gg> 5. To Kilbar: box, 6. Sent to Pasley for pears, To Mr Patiek Simpson, minister at Kilmacolme, for 4 bolls 1 firlot meall as the half of Dennestoun teind for crop 1674 (Alexr Millar having at my direction laid him in the other half), the sd meall being compted at 14 M. the boll, £00 2 2 00 6 0 00 1 0 00 3 0 00 6 0 00 2 0 00 6 0 tllUl -± LI). Ol NKtUclgt, IS 1 c \ 10 4. r lo Jo: Lvle for mv shoos mending, . uu 0 \j J.o the sd John for helping horse graith, .... 00 1 8 11. To my wife, .... 20 0 0 12. To Kilb. box, 00 2 0 17. To Pasley box and beggars, . 00 1 8 Lost at Tennice with Rossyth, 00 12 0 For 4 dozen buttons to a west coat, . 00 10 0 For 42 buttons to a cloath Rusty coat, 00 8 2 For 6 drop of silk to make the sd west coat, .... 00 10 0 For threed to the said west coat, 00 2 0 For ink, .... 00 1 0 For a mutchkin of sack with young Pollock, . . . 00 8 0 For apples, .... 00 3 10 Payd in Tho: Wilson's, 00 4 8 19. To* Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 20. Sent to Pasley post with a letter, 00 2 0 22. Sent to Glasgow to buy a horse-comb, 00 14 0 26. To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 28-30. To beggars the while I was in Cun- ingham, .... 00 1 0 DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 59 Oct 1. To Kilbar: box and beggars, . . i, J 00 1 8 To my man to buy 4 ells droggat to be him a frock to wear in the stables, . . . . 01 (j 8 3. To Kilbar. box, . . 00 2 0 6. To John Lyle for a pair of shoo's, . 01 13 4 7. To poor folk on the way to the Lady Aikinheid's buriall, . 00 1 10 Sent to St Johnston by Mr Alex 1 Forbes for 6 pair of shivrons, . 02 8 0 8. To Mat: Allason that he gave for sharping my two razours at Glas- gow, . . . 00 4 0 9. To a poor woman at Blackstoune, . 00 0 6 10. To Kilbar: box, . . 00 2 0 11. To my Lady Ruthyen's boy with the answer of a letter to her ladyship, 00 6 0 To my grand uncle James, to be sent to Ireland, to my Uncle John for supplie of his necessity, . . 66 13 4 12. To a beggar at the gate, . . 00 0 4 14. To Rob: Millar at Kerilaw, . . 00 0 8 To a poor Lad at Kerilaw gate, that had his house brunt, . . 00 6 0 15. For setting on a horse-shoo at Loch- winnoch, . . . 00 1 4 16. To Richard Cuningham in Gift, . 02 18 0 15. To poor John Boyd when I was in Kerilaw, . . . 00 1 8 17. To Kilbar: box, . . 00 2 0 20. Sent to Glasgow for reins to a snifle bitt, . . • 00 10 0 For a bridle to Cuninghamheid, whereof 9s. 6d. for reins, and 6s. 8d. for a bitt, ... 00 16 2 22. To Pasley Kirk box for the poor folk, 00 4 4 For straw to our horses at Pasley, . 00 5 0 24. To Kilbar box and a beggar, . 00 1 8 26. To a poor man at the gate, . . 00 0 4 60 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1675 Oct. 26. To Eliz: Birse to buy her valentin- gift, . . . . f 01 9 0 27. To Wm Brown for a boll corn I got from him to my horse on Oct. 4, . 08 0 0 29. To a beggar on my way to Carncurran, 00 0 4 30. To my wife, being to pay 34 lb. for her 2 women's ties for a yier since Mart: 1674, . . 40 0 0 31. To Kilbar: box, . . 00 2 0 JVir;i\ I took journey with my father and wife the 2d day to Edinburgh. 2. For the half of our bait at Glasgow, . 00 9 0 To the Ahnshous and beggars on the way, . . . 00 2 2 Payd of custom at C'artintalloch *Bridg, . . . 00 0 8 For a remove to the white horse at Kilsyth, . . . 00 1 0 3. The half of our quarters at Kilsyth that night, my father paying the other half, . . 02 10 10 My half of our bait at Falkirk, . 00 19 10 To beggars by the way that day, • 00 1 8 4. My half of our reckning for that night's quarters at Kirkliston, . 02 14 0 To beggars on the way to Edinburgh, 00 1 10 For meat that dav to our dinner in Edinburgh, . . 00 17 0 6. To a sword-sliper for dressing sword, . 00 6 0 To the preceding night's fodder to my 2 horses, . . 01 0 0 For 2 pe: of corn to them the sds 2 nights, . . . 01 4 0 For some ale and bread in the stables, 00 3 0 7. To the Tolbooth beggars, . . 00 0 6 8. To my wife, . . . 02 13 0 9. For 4 sheets of paper, . . 00 1 0 0. To my man for his Bountie Shoo's for the half-year after Marts 1675, . 02 0 0 DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 61 Nov . 10. It: Given him in part of his other fies, £03 6 H To my wife, . . . 05 16 0 For a 4* p 1 of bran to my horses, . 00 1 0 For a pen knife, . . 00 5 0 For a pair of fine horse-sheers, . 00 9 0 11. For a Inkglasse and some ink in it, . 00 1 8 For my coffer carrying to my chamber, 00 2 0 To Pasley post for carrying a pair of boots from Edinburgh to Pasley, . 00 12 0 13. To the stable boy where my horses stand, . . 00 6 0 For carrying my wife's coffer from Glasgow to Edinburgh, and a Maill, 03 12 0 For the customs of the sd coffer, . 00 4 8 To the man that carried it from the West Port to my chamber, . 00 4 0 For a quair of paper, . . 00 4 6 For the preceding 7 nights' fodder to my 2 horses, at 10s. the two a night, . . . 03 10 0 For 5 pe: J corn to them the sd time, 02 12 6 For J peck of malt to my sd horses, . 00 10 0 14. To Damenie Kirk box and beggars, . 00 2 0 To the man that gave me a seat, . 00 2 0 For my horse stabling and straw there, 00 4 0 For ale and bread to my man there, . 00 2 2 15. To my wife, . . . 36 0 0 To Anna Cuningham, my Uncle Wil- liam's daughter, which is to be counted in part of what I promised for her brother s boarding, . 03 12 0 For two pair of good gloovs, . . 02 1 0 To Pasley Post with a letter home, . 00 3 4 20. For the Act of Regulation, . . 00 3 0 For the prec: 7 nights' horse-fodder, . 03 10 0 For 5 pe: \ corn to them the sd time, 02 12 6 22. For a loan of a mourning cloak 2 days at Coll 1 Cuningham's Lady's trans- portation and her burriall, . 01 0 0 m CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1675 25. Faid 01 chamber Maul from rnday the 5 th , till Thursday the 25 th of Nov 1 , at 12s. a night, being 20, . ^12 0 0 "171 /) 1 1 1 • ■ 1 Tor 3 ells stringing to my drawers, . 00 3 0 For a pair of silver buckles to shoo's, 04 16 0 27. For a gang of new shoo's to my brown horse, .... 01 0 0 For the prec: week's horses' fodder, . 03 10 0 For 5 pe: J corn for them the sd time, v?z 1 0 IK, 6 28. For my horse stable at Damenie Kirk, 00 A 4 u To the Kirk box and beggars there, . 00 1 10 OA OK). For two sheets of paper, To beggars on the street the whole UU u 6 month of November, UU 1 1 U Lost through lending Wil: Campbell a dollar, he paying me so much less, .... UU 0 u 3. ror some cloaths washing, 00 6 0 ror a quair 01 paper, . 00 0 u A 4. ror my two horses fodder that week, 03 10 u "T~l Q ill ill" 1 ror five pe: § corn to them tnatyveek, 02 17 6 Fayd as my half of expense for meat, drink, coal, and candle for a month from rnday morning Nov. 5, till Friday morning Dec. 3, . 20 0 0 Nota. — The count came to 17 lb. 5s. 8d. more. But my Lady Ruthven gave all that was more than 20 lb. back again. 7. For a hire of a mourning cloak at my Grandaunt Helen Napier's trans- portation and burriall, 2 days, 01 0 0 For a gang of shoo's to my white horse, .... 00 18 0 Spent in a tavern with Hugh Arch- bald, .... 00 10 0 To And: Grey, my Lady Ruthven's boy, .... 00 6 0 For ane hundred chesnuts, 00 10 0 1 67 5] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 63 Dec. 9. Given of drink money to a Shoo- maker, .... X ; 00 2 0 For mending a sadle, . 00 6 0 To Ro: Cuningham's servant when he sent us red herrings, 00 6 8 For 2 links to light me through the street, ... 00 4 0 To a poor distrest preacher who had a great family, 02 16 0 To Pasley Post with a letter home, . 00 6 8 For 8 ells holland at 48s. the ell, 19 4 0 For ane ell holland at 40s., . 02 0 0 Given to help to Mr. Jo: Maxwell's burriall, .... 00 17 0 For a new peri wick, . 16 18 0 To the periwick maker's boy of drink silver, .... 00 6 8 For two weeks' fodder to my horses, . 07 0 0 For 10 pe: f corn to them in that time, .... 05 7 6 For a p r of Cam rick frunces to my sleeve, .... 00 13 4 For a Camrjck gravat, 01 12 0 For my great bend -leather boots, 18 0 0 For a pair of shoo's, . 02 0 0 For a pair of spurrs, . 01 10 0 Drink silver for my s d boots, . 00 12 0 For a quair of paper . 00 6 0 For five ga s hoods to my 5 sisters, 04 7 6 For 8 ells ribbon to Rebecca, 04 18 0 For a little scarf to Jean, 02 0 0 For a muff to my sister Jonet, 01 4 0 For a pr pendents to Marion, 00 12 0 For a necklace to Anna, 00 4 To my wife, being the overcome of the money which I gave her to buy the above-m d things with, 06 15 o For a sword belt to myself, . 02 0 0 For a litle pocket brush, 00 3 0 64 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1675 Dec. 24. Spent at setling with Alex 1 ' Laurie, . To my wife at my leaving her, For horse fodder these last 6 nights, . For 4 pe: J corn in that space, To the stable boy of drink money, . For a horse-mane comb, For 2 tobac-pipes For a pennar ink horn at Lithgow, . To beggars on the street that month, 25. For that night's quarters at Lith- gow, .... Drink silver to the Servants, . For my bait at Hollin bush, . For apples at Pasley, . For 3 sheets of paper there, . For sowing a bridle there, 26. To the Kirk box there, For my night's quarters there. Drink silver to the servants, . To And: Rodger that lie payed for carrying my wife's coffer from Pasley to Glasgow in November, . To beggars these two days, . 29. Given to Geo: Barr, in Law, when he payd me the last of a dear bargane of Dennestoun corn 1674, To my Father in paymt of a year's @ rent of 550 lb. that I rested owing of Cuninghamheid rent 1671, be- tween Mart 8 1672 and Mar: 1673, 30. I fitted a compt with my father and payed him the particulars following, by compensation where- of these set down in my Charge : — Imp 1 ': that he payed of Compts to Hugh Muir and And: Purdie for me in August 1671, Nota. — The compts he payd came to 223 lb. But the compt betwixt £00 6 6 33 6 8 03 0 0 02 5 0 00 9 0 00 3 6 00 0 6 00 4 0 00 17 4 01 17 8 00 8 0 00 12 0 00 1 00 0 00 0 00 3 02 2 00 7 00 10 0 00 3 10 00 13 4 27 10 0 125 13 1G 1 67 5] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 65 him and me being 97 lb. 6s. 2d. short on my part, and he quiting that to me, I thought best to take it off' some article to make the Charge and Discharge equall. Dec. 30. It: That he payd in Jan 1 1671 for a . . . 1 piriwick to me, ± } 17 0 4 It: lhat he sent to me to Ireeland in April 1673, 86 0 0 It: lhat he lent me in May 1673, 0 0 It: He gave Ja: Patieson and John Fliming, at my desire, y)6 12 0 It: 1 hat he gave tor a pair oi stockms to me in iviarcn Loio, U4 Q O , > u It. That he gave James Carnegy and his man tor writing my contract of marriage, .... QQ lis i\ Kf Yt TTW I 1 1 i * 1 i It: lhat he lent me in August 1673, .... on 29 0 () It: That he gave for 60 daills at 14 s a peice to build my study, about August 1673, 42 0 0 It: For half a firr jeist for that use, . 04 13 It: lhat he payd Hugh Muir tor cloaths gotten at my marriage in summer, 1673, 220 0 0 Tl rill 1 1 1 —wLa — , , rt X* it: 1 hat he payd, as my proportion oi the first six months cesse at Lam- mas 1673, my valuation being 571. 13. 4., the Master s half is . 18 3 0 It: My proportion for repairing Kil- macolme kirk is . 04 19 4 It: He payd my proportion of a glebeaiker in Kilmacolme, . 04 4 0 It: That he payd, as my proportion for the Militia trumpet and standard my part, or half, 01 10 0 It: He payd my last 6 months 1 cesse at Candlemas 1674, 18 3 0 E (56 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS Dec. 30. It: My proportion of the School- master's fie of Kilbar: betwixt Whits: and Mart: 1673, my valuation in Kilbarchen being 43. 13. 4., comes to . . ,£01 19 0 It: I got 10 bolls corn to my horses, cropt 1673, at 5 lb. a boll, . 50 0 0 It: He pay d M r Jo: Stirling my vicar- age, 1673, for Neather-Craigends and Locherside, . . 07 0 0 It: That he payd the Earl of Dundon- ald my Few dutie for Achans and Rywraiths for years 1673 and 1674, 33 6 8 It. My proportion of the School- master's fie of Kilb: fra Mart: 1673 till Mart: 1674, . . 03 15 4 It: That he payd Andrew Purdie, tailour, for me in Summer last, . 03 14 0 It: He then gave for a hatt to me, . 05 8 0 It: For a pair of shoo's, all in Edin 1 *, . 01 18 0 It: I got 4 bolls & a firlot corn to my horses from him of cropt 1674, at 8 lb. the boll, .. 34 0 0 I ow yet of Cuninghamheid's rent, cropt 1671, though my Father has charged himself with it as received from me at Mart 8 1672, . . 317 2 5 This is compted at 550. 9. 2. in the compt betwixt my father and me, in which compt also I discharge myself of the 233 lb. 6s. 8d. of differ in ane article by itself ; but here I chuse rather to dilete the 233. 6. 8. out of my charge, and so much of the 550. 9. 2. out of my discharge, seeing it is already written as payd in February 1675. This far comes the fitted compt betwixt my Father and me. i675] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 67 Dec. 31. To Kilbar box and a beggar, . ^00 1 6 It: I payd out in July last to W m Holms, schoolmaster of Steins- toun, which I got allowed to me in the compt made with my Father at paying so much of the old debt I was aughting my Father, . 08 0 0 Summa of Discharge 1675. Januarii, . . <£>172 11 2 Februarii, '. 272 10 10 Martii, . 092 16 4 Aprilis, . . 099 02 4 Maii, . 040 02 8 Junii, . 102 15 6 Julii, . 031 13 0 Augustii, . 203 15 0 Septembris, .069 10 6 Octobris, . 127 18 2 Xovembris, . Ill 15 4 Decembris, . 1321 04 4 ^2645 15 2 Brief Note shewing hozv the forsd: 2645. 15. 2. zcas expended. I. Impr: Given to my wife of it, . . ^333 16 2 II. It: That she and I had both alike a hand in — 1. Boarding, for horses and all, i?504 14 6 2. Horse furniture & shooing, 012 00 10 3. Added to the price of our horses, . . . 143 00 0 659 15 4 III. It. Depursed by myself — Imp: In payment of old debt contracted before I lifted any rent at Marts 1673, . 1134 09 0 It: My compts, . . I°127 11 10 It: Other litle buyings, . 009 10 6 It: Charitie, greater, . 098 12 8 68 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1676 It: Charitie, lesser, . . ,£014 04 0 It: My gifts, . . 030 7 0 It: Drink silver, 008 13 6 It: Travelling expense, . 007 2 8 It: Other incident exp, . 014 16 10 It: Of my man s fies, . 010 09 4 It: My Study building, . 055 00 8 IIII. Spent by neither of us, being the burden of lands — 1. Public burdens, . . £057 05 8 2. Teinds, . . 050 13 4 3. Few duties, . . 033 06 8 £376 09 0 141 05 8 £2645 15 2 DISCHARGE 1676. To Gavin Moodie in neurgift. £>00 14 0 To little Pat: Cunningham, . 00 3 4 To Mathew Allison in N: gift, 00 13 4 To James Forfar, 00 6 0 To Kilbar: kirk box, 00 2 0 To beggars on the way to Irwin, 00 0 10 To Ninian Burns, Cuninghd's boy, 00 6 0 For two removes to my brown horse, 00 3 4 To Cuninghamheid in Neu r gift, 03 0 0 To Baidland's maisons, 00 6 0 Payd for my quarters that night, 02 0 0 To the servants of drink money, 00 6 0 To James Stirling in Neu r gift, 00 12 0 For putting on a boot heel, . 00 2 6 To James Moody for weaving 26 ells of serge to my wife, 04 6 8 To my Mother for boarding, . 150 13 4 This, with the 12 stane of Achans cheese, compted at 16 lb., pays 1676] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 69 the silver half of our boarding fr Whits: 1675 till Marts 1675. Jan. 7. To Pasley kirk box, . Payd in Tho: Wilson's on my way east My custome at Cartintalloch, For a remove at Burnside, For my quarters there that night, and drink silver, 8. My bait at Lithgow cost To Sir Jo: Cunningham's footman for lighting me to my lodging, To beggars that day, 9. To the Tolbooth beggars, 10. Payd of our compt of meal and drink coal and candle, . It: Furder payd of that compt, 11. Spent with James M c bryd, . 12. For half a dozen of apples, . For a prognostication, For a quair of cutt paper, 13. To the post of Pasley with a letter, 14. For 20 dozen button tails to mount my cloths, 15. For five piece of black ribbon, For another double piece of ribbon, For 3 ells ha: quarter black taffatee to line my coat, . For straw to my horses that week, For 5 pe \ corn to them that week, Payd to my man for a muff, . For a dozen of apples, 16. To the man that gave me a seat at Damenie kirk, To the kirk box and beggars, For my horse stabling at Damenie, 17. For a pr: of threed stirrup stockens, For a grey hatt & hatt band, For 2 ells J cloath to be my cloaths, For a pair of black silk stockins, 70 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1676 Jan. 17. For a pr: of ryding tapped stockins, 18. To the tailour's boys of drink silver, 19. To a poor woman that had a testim 1 : To Pasley post with a letter, For ane orenger, 21. Spent in company with Sir Geo Max well, 22. To my wife, . For straw to my horses that week, For 5 pe: \ corn to them that week, 23. For my horse's stabling at Dameny, To Dameny kirk box and beggars, 25. For silk to mend my cloak, . For a gravat and 2 pr: camrick frunces for sleeves, 26. For ink, 27. To Pasley post with a letter, . For bleeding my brown horse and a mask to him, 29. Payed in part of chamber mail, For a drink to Ja: M c bryd in my chambers, To beggars on the street that month Feb. 3. For a gang of shoo's to brown horse, For a pint of ale at shooing him, To the stabler boys of drink silver, For the act concerning the souldiers, Spent in the Coffee house, To Pasley post with a letter home, 5. For straw to my horses two weeks, For 10 pe: J corn to them that space, 9. Payd of Chamber Maill from Nov r 25 till Feb. 9. at 12s. a night, The Dollar I gave January 29 makes up this compt. 11. Spent in the Coffie house, 12. To Glasgow post for a letter, 13. To Dameny Kirk box and beggars, . For my horse stabling there, . 42 14 0 00 7 6 00 2 0 00 2 0 00 4 0 i6;6] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 71 J-U. X Ul ci J>ciLlit; LU d J">cl Willi, o 0 n r»f ti Movn (Vkmti X yJ L Cl lUlllU, nn uu Q u "FV*t a nr»7pn ut AtyhIp* uu u 17. To Paslev post with a letter home, UU 9 n u it/. IOr stlclW LU 1101St:S \Y CCKS 5 U / a u U j: ui iu pe ^ cum lu uiem iiiat space. UD i u For ane Orenger, 00 1 0 1 UI ci ULlcill Ui UcilJcl, uu a 0 U 20. 1 a I Yrmcrniin rVivL' hnY anri MAfrrvavc J- u v/iiiiniuuii iviik uua. cillLl UcggcilS, . on 2 n u X Ul 11UISC OLdUllll^ L11C1C, on uu Q o 0 ri>± . x Ul 111 \ sWUlil 1111L UlCSSlIlg, xUr ci UlUUIlHIlg LIUciK. LU Lllc XjciCiV nn uu a o A U J-jlllfcrrhllls LlcillSpUlL cllltl ULUliail, m Ul u A U xU Lilt; ^.tIcILcI a UUy LllciL Kccys Ultr door. 00 13 4 rur hunic jtusl pcipci, nn uu a o i\ u OK x Ul ci gcillg Ul M1UU» LU UIllLc HUlat:, nn uu 1 8 lO A U For sharping a razour and pen knife, 00 uu 4 A \t For Apples, .... 00 uu 2 n u 27. To Damenie Kirk box and beggars, . 00 o For my horse stabling there, . 00 n 28. Payd Furder of the compt of meat and drink, coal and candle, i n 1U u A U Payd of Chamber Maill at 12s. a night * from Feb. 9 till Feb. 29, . 1 9 u A 1/ To the lasse of drinksilver, 00 13 4 For a pennar ink horn to my wife, 00 Spent in the coffie house, 00 uu o 29. For straw to my horses since the 19 day, .... 05 o u o For 7 pe J corn to them that space, . 03 15 o To the stabler lad in drink silver, 00 uu u (> For cloaths washing, . 01 8 () For a maill mending, 00 uu 3 s For a coffer and presse transporting, . 00 3 0 To a boy for carrying a link, . 00 1 4 For my fraught at Queensferry, 00 13 4 For setting on a horse shoo at Enner- keithing on a split foot, . 00 o S CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1676 Feb. 29. To the man that shewed me the house and yeards of Dunnibirsle, ,£00 12 0 To beggars on street that month, 01 6 4 March 1. For my horse's meat that night at Bruntiland, 01 2 0 To the stabler boy in drinksilver, 00 4 0 To the servant lasse (my Lady Ruthven paving the reckning). 00 6 0 1. For my stirrup-leather mending, 01 12 0 2. Given of drink money in Hallhill, To the man that shewed me the House 01 10 0 of Bacaskie, 00 13 4 To John Hillock to take care of the horses that night at Ely, . 00 6 0 3. Given of drinknionev in Grainge, 01 8 0 Payd for my horses at Ely that night, 01 0 0 4. Given of drinkmoney in Redres house, 01 6 8 5. To the kirk box of Drone, 00 6 0 6. For roseit to my white horse cheek, . 00 1 8 7. To the sklaiter at Freeland, . 00 6 0 8. Given of drinkmoney at Freeland, 02 18 0 For a bait at St. Ninian's Kirk, 00 7 8 9. Paid for my quarters that night at V 1 0 Burnside, .... 01 19 0 Drinksilver to the servants there, 00 7 0 My custome at Cartintalloch, 00 0 8 To beggars on the way that journey, 00 2 0 10. To Kilbar: kirk box, 00 1 0 11. Sent to Pasley Post with a letter East, 00 2 0 12. To Kilbar: box, 00 1 4 13. For ha: pe: malt to be a mash to my horses when I bled them, . 00 8 0 14. To the smith for bleeding them, 00 4 0 To poor Jo: Robsoun in charitie, 00 12 0 I found my count of money to indrink when I came home and cast it 00 8 10 I left with my wife in Edin r when I came away, for her use ; 30 lb. of this for diet, the rest for purse, . 58 13 8 1676] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 73 March 17. To Kilbarch: box and beggars, i?00 1 6 To one that had a testimonial!, 00 (j o 18. Given to Malcom Patieson to buy a boll seed-corn to himself, 06 13 4 Payed as James Black^s last compt of horse shooing, all in 1675, 04 5 o It: His compt of the iron rod and cleek in the hall weighing 20 pd., 04 o 0 To Ja: Cowie, Schoolmaster, as his fie for my lands bet: Mart. 74 and 75, 03 15 0 19. To Pasley Kirk box and beggars, 02 2 o To the post with a letter to Edin r , 00 2 0 20. I payd our min r John CarswelPs vicarage teind 1674, he leaving; both it and the rent unpayd : inde. 00 10 0 21. To a beggar at the gate, 00 o 6 23. To Tho: Wilson's boy for bringing me letters from Pasley post, 00 4 0 24. To Kilbar* box and a hporcrar JL. V J KJLXtl. . KJKJ^V. (11 J V t Cv KJ V-^^CVA j « To W m Moodie to go to Irwin with 00 1 4 lpf f pi>c IV. tlvlOft • • • • 00 13 4 25. To a beggar at the gate, To James Mertoun when I fied him to 00 0 6 be mv man, in arles, 00 13 4 26. To Kilharrhpn box 00 2 0 27. Sent to Pasley post with a letter east, 00 2 0 31. Spent at Kilbar: for ale, Payd for my horse stable in Pasley 00 2 0 on Sabbath thp 1Q nav 00 1 0 To Kilbar- box JL VJ iVill /(.U . UUA^ • * • 00 2 0 a 00 2 0 7. To Pasley Kirk box and beggars, 00 1 4 Pavd in Tho Wilson's JL CL y \»L J.11 JL 11V/* f w llOWll kJ» • • 00 5 8 To Kilbar box JL KJ J L1J. 1 /(U KJ KJ >x • • • • 00 o 0 10. For a bait on the Muir on my way to Edinburgh, 00 8 10 For a Muirfowll which I bought there, 00 10 0 12. For a remove to the powny at Edinr., 00 1 0 For two oranges, 00 1 4 74 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1676 April 12. Spent in a taverne, . ^00 7 6 13. For my horse's stabling at the Queens- ferry, where I saw my La: Ruthven, 00 6 0 14. For a pair of shoos, . 02 0 0 For two China oranges, 00 3 4 For a dozen common oranges, 00 10 0 For four lemons, 00 6 0 To my wife for her diet, 60 0 0 15. To the servant lasse when I came away, .... 00 6 0 For five nights fodder to my horses, the one at hay at 8 S, the other at straw at 5 S a night, 03 5 0 For 4 pe f corn to them that space, . 02 7 6 To the stabler lad, . 00 5 6 For a bait at the Craigs, 00 10 0 To beggars during that voyage, 00 6 0 16. To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 17. To Pasley post with a letter to Edinr:, To little Ja: Black to go to Irwin with 00 2 0 Cuninghamheid's powny, 00 9 0 19. For a half boll corn to my horse, 03 0 0 21. For 3 ells J white cloath to be my man livery, at 22 S a ell, . 03 11 6 22. To my man in part of his fie, Sent to Pasley for 6 ells string to 2 02 0 8 pair of drawer knees, 00 6 0 For 3 ells stringing to my man's livery, 00 2 0 For thread to sew the sd livery, 00 6 0 23. Kilbarch: box, 00 2 0 28. Kilbarch: box, 00 1 0 30. To Pasley Kirk box and beggars, 00 2 0 To beggars at the gate that month, . 00 1 8 1. To the smith's boy in drink money to help at my horseshooing, 00 4 0 For a pynt of ale to the smith, 00 2 0 For half a boll corn to my horse, 03 0 0 2. To beggars on my way to Edinr:, 00 0 8 5. To Pasley Kirk box and beggars, 00 1 10 I6 7 6] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 75 May 5. lo Ailbar: box, 4/00 <7» 0 I/* „ _ 1, •! 4- „ j_ 4.1, _ \T ^ , , 1 . CI, „4-4-, . lor a bait at the Kirk or bnotts, uu 1% 0 Q v. For my sword dressing at Edin: uo 5 0 1U. For; 3 horses 1 meat one night, Ai Ul lo 0 Cuninghamheid pavd the other night because they were to take him back from Edin: To the stabler bov of drink mo., UU A U To my wife, .... OK UO lo U li. For 2 oranges, oo UU 1 Q o 10. For a mutchkin of wine, oo UU 0 U Given of arles at a chanibertaking, oo UU 10 A 4* ID. For six dozen livery buttons and double tails to them, OQ UO o U u For cords to ty on the maill with, oo UU 1 A <± For a mutchkin of wine, oo UU 0 o u To the servt lasse at my coming away, OO U o u For a bait to my horses at Glasgow when my man was bringing them back, .... oo UU / o U For his lodging with them at Black- burn, .... m Ul A u For 4 stane of hay he got fra Ho: Steinston, UU 10 For a bait to my horses at Edin: on uu 7 1 0 1U 1 i. For my quarters that night at Black- burn, .... OQ o o unnKSiiver lo ine servants meic, uu i o For a bait and a chappin of wine Glasg: Ul Q O o 5: or a pint or wine ciruiiK in mc iui- booth with the prisoners, 00 J. o o To the beggars that voyage, . 00 Q o u oi «1. lo Kilbar: box, (in UU 0 o u oo To Pasley post with a letter to Edin., oo UU o u T^n Wil- r^iiiiinfrliaiTi in nnvt of Ins fips X. \) W 11. VvUIllIll' llcllll 111 lJc\,l \j vji mo iivoj 01 6 8 To him for some help he did my old sword and old pockets to livery cloaths, .... 00 12 0 To beggars while I was in Cuningham, 00 1 4 76 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [i6;6 May 26. To Jolmstouns maissons, 3COO 6 0 To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 29. To Pasley post with a letter to Edin., 00 2 0 To Ja: Brook's mother in charity, 00 2 0 30. For a good tether and a halter, 01 0 0 To beggars at the gate that month, . 00 1 4 1. For a bait at the Kirk of Shotts, To a man there for sewing a stirrup 00 18 0 leather, .... 00 1 0 To Pasley post to take my horses home, .... 01 6 0 To beggars upon the road that day, . 00 1 6 3. To my wife for our diet or table, 80 0 0 5. For my shoo's mending, 00 1 0 For 2 sheets of paper, 00 0 6 6. For carrying up two coffers from the Cowgate to our chamber, 00 4 0 For ink, .... 00 0 4 7. For naills, .... 00 0 2 8. For a pd of sweet hair powder 00 12 6 9. For my two horses meat that night they were in town, 01 6 0 For mending of a sadle, 00 3 0 10. For half doxen of litle orangers, 00 3 0 11. To the kirk box, 00 1 0 12. For a pair of coarse gloovs to play at the bowlling green with, . 00 3 4 15. To Pasley post with a letter home, . 00 4 0 16. For binding a book of written Sermons 01 4 0 17. To my man to pay his brothering, 01 2 0 19. For whey in Persh ilia's, 00 1 6 For transporting our coffers at flitting, 00 4 0 21. For a mutchk: of wine in our chamber, 00 5 0 24. For a mutchk: of wine in our chamber, 00 5 0 Spent in company that night, 00 14 0 25. To the kirk box and tolbooth beggars, .... 00 1 6 26. For lace to a gravate, 01 10 0 27. For orangers, 00 4 0 1676] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 77 June 28. To And: Purdie in paymt of his compt of my cloaths making in Janry last, * . . . ailO 0 29. To a boy that keept the door where parties go in to hear their cause dispute, . . . 00 6 0 To Pasley post with a letter home, . 00 2 0 30. For a mourning cloak to Mr. Kirk- to un's son's burriall, . . 00 12 0 To beggars on the street that month, 00 10 0 July 1. Given to see the Bears and the Ape, . 00 2 0 For a mutchk: of wine in our chamber, 00 5 0 5. For a mutchk: wine in our chamber, . 00 5 0 6. To Pasley post with a letter home, . 00 2 0 For a mutchk: wine in our chamber, . 00 5 0 11. Spent in companie with the Master of Burley, . . . 00 12 0 12. My Compt of Lace working as follows : Threed, 1 lb. 18s. Seven dozen of babbens, lis. 8d. A bitt narrow Lace, 8s. 4d. A cod to work upon, 17s. 6d. Prins to work with, 5s. Inde of all, For my stockins soiling, 13. To Pasley post with a letter home, . For a pint of wine at dinner in our chamber with company, . To a blind man that came from Kilbar:. 15. To my wife, .... 11 lb. 5s. 8d. of that for our diet, 28 lb. 14s. 4d. of it for her purse. 16. To beggars as I went to Leith to Sermon, .... To the kirk beddall for a seat, 17. For pears, .... For batter and paper, 18. For pears and apples, 19. For a stick of wax, For a choppin wine in our chamber, . 04 0 6 00 1 0 00 2 0 01 0 0 00 1 0 40 0 0 00 6 0 00 6 0 00 1 0 00 1 s 00 1 0 00 6 0 00 10 0 78 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1676 June 19. To Pasley post with a letter home, . ^00 6 llc r»T nrnaH rilapb' viliMnn X Ul L111CC Clio Ul Ul UclLl UlclX IV 11UUU11, . 00 15 o For pears, .... 00 3 o For npflTN 00 UU l X u For 3 horses'* grasse at Corstorphine the space of 12 nights at 4s., 07 U I 4 o u 1 ^t*i n k qi 1 vpr to flip nnvHifll" lippni" tlipin Ul UlIYOll V Cl LU LUC UU V L11CIL 1VCCUL L11C111, 00 u o u To the servant lasse when we came away, .... 00 UU 12 o u For corn and some grasse in Jo: iviitcneii s, 00 UU 1 0 lu o For pears, .... 00 UU o u For our bait at Blackburn, 01 ul u 15. For our quarters that night at Shotts, U/w 12 n u Drinksilver to the servants, . 00 6 0 For a bait at Glasgow bridge-end, 00 13 4 To beggars before I came home, 00 UU 14 1 X 4 17. Spent at Kilmacolm, . 00 4 0 12. To Will: Moodie for sheering grasse to my horse during the summer session, my man being with me in Edinburgh, 02 14 0 20. To Kilmacolme kirk box, it being a communion day, . 01 8 0 21. To the s d Kirk box, . 00 6 0 80 CUNNINGHAM OF CKAIGENDS [1676 21 Payd for my wife's lodging and mine the two nights in Xilmacolme, -£04 0 0 Drinksilver to IVIat: Law for our seat, 00 13 4 For horses 1 stabling there, 00 3 0 To beggars during; the Comm: days, . 00 2 8 To my wife, .... 30 0 0 23. To Gavin bloody for the foreyeard grasse to shear to my horse, 01 6 8 24. To poor Jamie Muir, 00 2 0 25. To Pasley kirk box, and beggars, 00 1 8 Payd in Tho: Wilson's, 00 1 8 27. To Kilbar: kirk box, . 00 2 0 81. To my father to pay the month's cesse that was laid on by consent for the ease of the fermours of the excise, who had sustained great loss these years, my proportion as Master for 571 13 4. bein«" 05 18 4, 1. To Feter AVaker for 6 firlots good old corn to my horse, 08 0 0 3. To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 To Pasley kirk box and beggars, 00 1 4 To a pint of ale there, 00 1 8 10. To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 12. To the Ferry boat of Renfrew, 00 6 0 14. Left of drinkmoney in Cullcreuch, 02 16 0 To the boy that drew my horse, 00 6 0 For my bait at Dumblane, 00 17 8 To beggars on the road, 00 1 0 Sent to Johnston for 6 pr gloys to my wife, 4 pr at 8s. 6d., 2 pr at 6s., 02 6 0 17. To Drone kirk box and beggars, 00 4 0 Lpft of drinkmonpv m Free 1 an n 02 18 0 To the souldiers in Stirling Castle, 01 8 0 For setting on a horse shoo and remov- ing another at Stirling, 00 6 0 20. For our quarters that night at Stir- ling, Cuninghamheid & I & five horse, .... 05 2 0 i6 7 6] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 81 Kj( pi. on . . ., , Dnn ksilver to tli6 servants there, A UU I u For removing a shoo bv the way, nn I u Custonie at Cartintalloeh bridge, UU 1 o o To the almshouse at Glasgow, UU A n u For our bait at Glasgow, Ul 1 o u To beggars & the almshouse at Pasley, UU o u OO Tn Kilbar- box JLU J.Y1J. V/Cll . L/V/A., 00 1 X 0 V/ 94 AT, XU XVllUcll. L)Ua, 0 vj To mv old man, W 111 Ouningham, in paym* of all I was owing him of his two years' 1 ties, Q O — u. Tn Tim* \\^il»srm far liis: lir»v

Ull 1V/1 Illo 1IVJ13C I1HC LU Freeland, .... 0^ It V/ ±o x asiey KiiK oox, 00 yjyj 1 X o h nr ^\ /ir\7an Kn^'Fnno T/^i* «i lroicf PHOT rUI O LIUZcIl UllllOlla lv/1 n 00 0 10 8. xo xasiev KiiK dox ov oeggais, 00 V/V/ 2 o Spent at Pasley, 00 V/V/ 1 8 9. oent into x asiey post wixn a letter to xiiCiin., .... 00 4 o To Wil: Shaw, Bargarrens son, 00 0 V/ 11. To James Patieson for carrying our oajipasie out 01 xauh ctt ±^ 7 ^ " ulv > ; 5 00 8 0 For a iron, to hing a stirrup leather .in, .... 00 1 0 V CUrsJMXjrHA.M Or CKAIGli.jN.L>!5 [1676 20. Spent for ale and straw in Paslev, £00 2 8 22. To Kil: box, . 00 2 0 To Pasley kirk box & beggars, 00 2 0 26. To a beggar on my way from Pollock, 00 0 4 27. To Kilbar. box, . 00 1 0 29. To Kilbar. box, 00 () 30. To Jo: Hair when he completed his rent, .... 00 0 10 To blind W m Jamieson in charity, 00 13 4 To my man for straw payd in Pasley, 00 1 6 31. To my wife to give the servants at Craigends at our away-coming, 02 17 0 For our bait at Glasgow, 01 3 0 1. For our quarters that night at Shotts, 02 14 0 Drinksilver to the lasse there, 00 2 8 For our bait at Blackburn, 02 0 0 To beggars upon the road. 02 0 10 For our diet that night in W m Wood's. 00 13 0 2. For a cjuair of cutt paper, 00 5 0 For our diet that day in W m Wood's, 01 5 6 3. For the 4 horses" 1 meat 2 nights, 03 12 0 To ]\lat: Allason to carry him & three of the horses home, 02 0 0 To Matthew to himself, 00 12 0 To my wife, .... 01 12 6 For our diet that day in W m Wood's, 01 0 10 Given of arles at our chamber taking, 00 12 () 4. For our diet that day in W m Wood's, 01 3 4 For provision to enter with to our own chamber, 03 10 0 6. For our coffers and presse transporting, 00 6 0 7 For ink 00 0 A 4 Spent in the Coffie house, 00 4 0 To Paslev post for bringing; in our baggage, .... 02 13 U 9. For apples, .... 00 0 4 For hay to my horse the 8 nights preceding, 02 0 0 For a firlot corn to him the s d space, . 01 12 0 16/6] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 83 Nov. 9. For some bread & ale gotten by the lads, To the stable-boys in drinkmoney, For our chamber maill these 6 nights 12. To Damenie kirk box & beggars, To the Register's man for my seat, For my horse stabling at Damenie, 13. For 4 ells Ratin to be my cloaths, 14. For wine & chestnuts in our chamber 15. For a new piriwick, . Drinksilver to the periwick-maker'* boy, 16. For our chamber maill, coall, & candle in W m Woods the first 3 nights we were in town that session, To the post of Paslev with letter & papers, . 18. For 14 ells flow Yd ribbon to my cloaths, To the tailour boys of drinkmoney, 19. To Damenie kirk box and beggars, To the doorkeeper for my seat, For my horse stabling there, . 20. For 5 ells purpur ribbon for ties, For 5 ells \ broad purpur ribbon, For a p r of silk stockins, Spent in the Coffie house, For a p r of new shoos, Drinksilver to the shoomaker's boy, 21. For apples, For a mutchkin of wine in our cham ber, 22. For camrick to be gravats, To my wife to give her woman Agnes Hume for the preceding half year s fie from Whits: till Mart: 1676, . To my wife for her own use, . For a new sword scabbard, mending the old, & dressing my sword, <£00 5 0 00 7 0 03 12 0 00 2 4 00 3 4 00 2 0 38 8 0 00 9 4 12 8 0 00 6 0 00 2 0 00 4 0 10 10 0 00 13 4 00 2 2 00 3 4 00 2 0 01 0 0 01 6 6 4 0 4 0 07 00 02 0 0 00 2 0 00 2 0 00 5 0 00 18 0 12 0 0 36 0 0 02 13 4 84 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1676 23. To Pasley post with a letter home, ^00 2 0 For mending my sw ord belt, . 00 6 0 24. For removing my horse shoos, 00 5 0 25. Spent in company, 00 5 0 26. To Damenie kirk box and beggars, 00 1 10 For my horse stabling there, . 00 2 0 27. For a quair of cutt paper, 00 5 0 28. Spent in the Coffie house, 00 1 0 30. Spent in company in a taverne, 01 8 0 To my wife, .... 08 14 0 To beggars in tlie street that month. 00 18 10 1. For apples, .... 00 3 0 Lost in a wager with young Greenock, 00 12 0 To Damenie kirk box & beggars, 00 2 0 For my horse stabling at Damenie, . 00 2 0 2. For 3 weeks of chamber maill, 12 12 0 5. For, a choppin of wine at dinner, 00 10 0 For a suit of chesse men, 00 18 0 7. To the post of Pasley with a letter home, .... 00 2 0 For apples, .... 00 1 0 8. For tarr and tallow to my horses feet, 00 4 10 For mending a pair of broken tongs, . 00 6 0 9. For 4 weeks'* hay to my horse, 07 0 0 For 14 pecks corn to him that space, 05 12 0 10. To Damenie kirk box & beggars, 00 ] 8 To the man that keeps the seat, 00 4 0 For my horse stabling there, . 00 2 0 11. To James Mortoun in part of his fie, 04 0 0 For sharping my razour. 00 3 0 13. To my wife, .... 06 0 0 Spent in the Coffie house, 00 4 0 Spent in company that night, 00 9 0 14. To Pasley post with a letter home, . 00 3 4 16. For wine in our chamber, 00 2 6 18. For ane old piriwick mending, 00 9 0 20. To Pasley post for bringing in the powny, .... 01 0 0 For a gang of shoos to my brown horse, 01 0 0 1676] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 85 that Dec. 21. For 4 head busks of ribbons to my 4 youngest sisters, 3 of them at 48s. & one at 34s., For 2 white ga's hoods to Jean & Jonet, and 2 muffs to Marion & Ann, all at 24s. a piece, . Given to my wife to buy a New-Year gift to Rebecca, . Spent in the Coffie house, 22. To my wife at my leaving her, Left with her to pay 3 weeks' chamber maill ending on Sat: Deer 23 For 2 hundred chesnuts, For hay to my horse 13 nights, For 6 pecks \ corn to him space, For the pownie's meat 2 nights, Drinksilver to the stable boy, To Ro: Cuningham's boy, who brought us red herrings from his master, For mending the chain of a bridle, To beggars in the street that month, For a sheet of paper in Falkirk, 23. For my quarters at Ro: Cuningham , that night in Falkirk, Drinksilver to the servants there, For my bait at Arnbrue, Custom paid at Cartintalloch, 24. Left of Drinksilver in Pollock, To beggars on the road from Edin 1 ', To Pasley kirk box and beggars, For hay to my horses at Pasley, Spent in meat, drink, coall & candle since our entry to our chamber Nov r 4 till my coming home at Yuille, . 26. To James Patieson when he payd me a litle dear bargane, 27. To a poor man at the gate, . £0% 18 0 04 16 0 06 6 0 00 4 0 21 16 0 12 12 0 00 14 0 03 5 0 02 12 0 00 14 0 00 6 0 00 6 8 00 1 0 00 10 4 00 0 4 03 6 0 00 8 0 00 9 0 00 0 8 01 15 0 00 2 4 00 1 4 00 1 6 43 13 2 00 4 0 00 0 4 86 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1676 Dec. 30. To Andrew Arthur in drinksilver for a horse I bought fra his brother, . For 4 ells harn to be a sheet for the sd horse, .... To my man in part of his fie, To Ja: Black and John Thomson when they payd me their rent, to drink, 31. To Pasley kirk box & beggars, For a drink between sermons, Summa of Discharge 1676. £01 0 01 8 0 01 10 0 00 1 4 00 2 2 00 2 4 Januarii, . £379 3 6 Februarii, 114 15 2 Martii, . 096 10 10 Aprilis, . 082 12 10 Maii, 028 3 4 Junii, 103 18 4 Julii, ... 063 5 4 Augusti, 079 2 2 Septembris, 065 9 6 Octobris, 032 16 6 Novembris, 174 0 8 Decembris, 159 18 8 Discharge 1676, £1379 16 10 Brief Note shelving how the said £1379 16 10 was expended. I. Impr: Given to my wife of it, II. It: That she & I had both alike hand in as follows — ■ 1. Boarding, for horses and all, £665 13 6 2. Horse furniture & shooing, 020 15 10 £686 9 III. It: Depursed by myself — 1. On mybodie's abulyiements, £230 18 10 2. Other little buyings, . 017 1 8 3. Charity, greater, . . 010 0 8 4. Charity, lesser, . . 013 14 4 5. My gifts, . . . 030 6 8 1677] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 87 6. Drinksilver, . . ^033 17 8 7. Travelling & Taverns, . 048 13 4 8. Other incident expenses, . Oil 10 8 9. Payd of my man's fies, . 050 17 6 10. Lost through miscounting, 000 8 10 £U7 10 2 IIII. It: Spent by neither of us, being the burden of lands, as follows — 1. Public burdens or cesse, . £009 13 4 2. Teinds, . . . 000 10 0 010 3 4 Summa, . . ^1379 16 10 DISCHARGE 1677. 1. To Mat. Allason in neargift, =£00 12 0 2. To Cuninghamhead in nuregift, 03 0 0 To Ninian Burns in nuregift, 00 6 0 To Bardland's nurse in drinkmoney, . 01 9 0 Payd for my quarters that night in Irwin, 03 0 To the servants in drinkmoney, 00 3 4 3. Compt fitted with my father, and therin payd him for a firlot corn gotten to my horses in Dec. 1675, 01 10 0 It: payd him that he gave Mat. Allason and James Patisoun to bring in the horses upon that carried us West in August 1676, . 03 0 0 It: Payd him that he had lately payd for me to my Ld Dundonald as my fewdutye for the Achans and Rywraiths for two years, viz. 1675 & 1676, 33 6 8 Thus Jar comes my fathers compt. 4. To my mother for boarding, . 66 13 4 To young Arch: Arthur in pay 1 of a horse, .... 106 13 4 88 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS mending boots & Jan. 4. To John Lyle for shoots, . . ' . 6. To John Thomson, smith, in pay* of his compt of horse shooing since April 4, 1676, & some horse graith mending, . To him to bleed my black horse, To Ja: Forfar in NewVgift, . 7. To Kilbar: box, 8 To Gavin Moodie in NewVgift, For my bait at Cartintalloch, Payd of custome at the bridge, 9. For my quarters at St Ninians, Drinksilver to the servants there, For my bait at Oktor-Erdour, 11. Left of drinksilver in Freeland, 12. Left of drinksilver in Burlay, For my fraught at Queensferry, To beggars on the road, 13. For a mutchkin wine in our chamber For a quair of paper, 17. To Ashenyeard's man to take home the grey pownie out of Edin., 18. To my wife, . It: To her that she gave out in house compt the time I was out of towne, being three weeks, It: To her that she gave out as the first of the said week's chamber maill, .... 20. To our landlady as 3 weeks more chamber maill, 21. To the kirk box, 25. For a prognostication, 26. For a pair of gloovs, . For Apples, . 27. For straw to my brown horse 15 nights, & to the pownie 6 nights, at 3s. the night, ^00 6 0 05 4 0 00 4 0 00 6 0 00 4 0 00 12 0 00 5 0 00 0 8 01 16 0 00 4 8 00 7 8 01 9 0 02 16 0 00 13 0 00 1 0 00 5 0 00 4 0 00 12 0 25 1 0 07 16 10 04 4 0 12 12 0 00 1 0 00 0 4 00 4 0 00 2 0 03 3 0 1677] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 89 Jan. 27. For 10 pecks £ corn to them that space, .... A U sCO. ±0 K.11K DUX, uu 1 A U 29. For apples, .... A A uu A 2 U For a mutchkin wine in our chamber, AA UU 5 u Spent in the Coffie house, AA UU 4 u To beggars upon the street in Jan., . AA UU 6 0 1. To Pasley post with a letter home, AA UU 6 4 For ink, .... AA UU U a O 2. To Andrew Purdie in pay* of my tctiiour COllipL, 1 1 11 A U x"or d ciioppiii wiiic ttu ciimicr, no uu 1U A U xor coniections, AA UU o 0 U 3. For a pair of new shoots, 02 1 A U lo the kirk box, 00 1 u o. 10 i asicy post ioi uriiigiijg a cnccsc, 00 7 A U ror a quair or paper, 00 5 u 11. lO LIlc Kll K UOX, 00 1 A U 12. For 11 ells Barragon to be a cloak, . 17 12 u For 10 ells Baise to line it with, 08 10 A U For silver clasps to my cloak, weighing 13 drop J, & 18s. for workman- ship, .... 03 9 A U io. jlo my wire to give ivo v^unmgiiam, 02 16 u 15. To Pasley post with a letter, 00 2 A U 16. For a choppin of wine at dinner, 00 10 A U 17. .bor a choppin or wine at dinner, 00 10 A U Urmksilver ror my cioakmakmg, 00 6 A U 18. To Dameny Kirk box & beggars, 00 3 A U To the door keeper for my seat, 00 3 4 For my horse stabling there, 00 2 u 19. For a pint of wine in our chamber, 01 0 A U 21. Spent in the Coffie house, 00 4 A u jlo jrasicy post wilii a icllci. 00 2 o 24. To 24 nights' straw to my brown horse, For 12 pecks corn to him that space, 03 12 0 04 16 0 To the stable boys in drinkmoney, 00 6 0 For a housing girth, . 00 6 8 For mending my sadle, 00 6 8 90 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1677 Feb. 24. For remooving my horse shoots, £00 5 0 ^r>f»nt in frtiiininv of T atMi OUC11L 111 CUllllJd.ll V CK L JLiClL.ll, . 00 o u For oraticrps s\\ T.Pitli 00 12 o n r»T* a r'nonmn winp in out* fliflinnpr X V 7 1 d C11UUU111 VV 111C 111 UUl ciiciniuci, 00 uu 10 JLU o u 25. To Dameny Kirk box & beggars, 00 3 0 For my horse" 1 stabling there, 00 2 0 28. To my wife, .... 30 0 0 Tn tnp Afpppr'" , s lviv>! in "Hip TToikp X U L11C ITXCCCCl o UU y o ill L11C XXULloC, 00 uu u 8 1 r> r"»e»frfrfi rs on nip chvpp'h in h phi' X V7 Llc^gclla Ull LllC StICCI 111 X CU1., 00 uu 15 10 xu Afnrrh 1 To PflV1L11 Ct It L LI I 1 1 v-M 1 1 v « • 00 uu 2 o Spent in company, 00 13 4 2. For a stirrup leather mending, 00 1 0 Stiprrh in n f a vpnip jii" T.pitli | /L 1 1 I 111 Ct 1(1 > ^1 UL (.11 X^idLll, . 00 10 o 3. StiptiI" in trip 1 1 ornp lionV11C, .... 10 X u o o Siipnt in tlip pottip Iioiisp ■^/UCllL 111 LllC CU111C HULloC, • • 00 4 0 Tn Affit Aljj«;on hivep« Ullll^lllg 111 L»U llUlaCoj . . 01 u 0 For 2 flo7Pn of Orancrprs; 01 9 0 WVyi - IiqIt n A'/pn nt lpninne X Ul 11 till ULU.6C11 Ul 1C111U11S, . . . 00 uu 10 o PflvH as 47 nio'hts 1 f'hambpv ma ill JL Ct/^J V.1 CCO X | 111^11 I/O VIJlllll'/vL 11KL111* . 24 7 o Tn mv wiip^sj woman as iiart nf hpi* tip J. U Illy V> I1C o VV Ulllclll do IJCLl 1/ Ul 11C1 11C, 01 10 o 8. To James Mortoun as part of his fee, 03 0 0 For nipnnincr thp phnin of a mm 11 JL Ul lllCllvllllii LllC Cllcllll Ul CX llicilll, . 00 1 o Hot* q lr»f»b" tn q mm 11 JL Ul ct 1UL/1V LU ct lllcllll, • . 00 uu a o For a choppin wine gotten the night UC1U1C, .... 00 uu 10 o Spent on house compt, viz., meat, n v\ n k r*oa 1 fv pa n n 1 p si n pp m v LlllllJY, CUCll vV LO/llULC^ olllCC -HI/ last coming to town, Jan. 12, till my sroins: out of it, March 8, 1677, .... 57 7 2 Given Ro. Cuningham to give Pasley post with a letter & bagage, 00 6 0 To my wife to give of drinkmoney at our leaving the chamber, 01 4 8 1677] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 91 8. For hay to my brown horse 12 nights, cv to nth pi* two 1 nicrht VV L v7 *_JL11C1 L >» U X lll£^llL, . • 10 u T*Vir / npf ks porn to tlipiii tnat sjtipjpp X v 7 1 | UCviVo CU1 11 LU L11C111 LUCtL oUCtCC, 02 16 n I o thfi ctalilp liovs: in MvmL'ninnpir XU LllC oLctUXC UU\S 111 LU 111 IV111U11C y , 00 6 Q O H or* q hnviP Iiiva to "Hi a LinppneTPrrv X Ul Ct llUXSC lillC LU LllC v^/ LICCHSICX 1 y, 01 3 Q O r£i \, r H ot irfiiio'nf' tit tlip cri tppvv X CtyiX Ul llctLl£^llL CX. L LllC OLl Icll V, . 00 18 n u 1 o ct ctsiolP oov in tlip \ nvt h tpt"t , at' i \j ct slciuic uuy 111 liic j.*»uilii iciiy, . 00 1 o \j Q c. Hot niiv nnflvtpi's + m q +■ mfylit nt Innpv. X Ul UI.U l|udl IClo L11CIL lll^llL Ct L X1111C1 k pit Inn ct 1VC1 Llllll£^, • • • • 02 10 0 u To the servant lass of drinksilver, 00 6 0 F01* f$ lini'sps 1 mpnt that" nio'ht X Ul tJ 11U1 oCo lllCctL LllCtL 111 lie* • 01 2 V/ 1 o tnp chciMic»i» iir»v x u liic aLctuici uuy, ... 00 2 o u I<\ii» O l"^/~^T•c XU LllC XV111V UU.v ctL XVI U11C, • • 00 1 8 For* mv linrsp''>s stplilmo* thprp JL \JL Illy oC o oLCtUXlLl^ LllvJXC, • 00 1 0 XT*. 1 o "\irito to nair in nQi»t ot hnaminfT XU 111V Wile LU pdy ill [Jell L Ul UUdiLllllg iiugc, 00 1 o j;ur a oaiL lo our norscs du vjidaguw, . 00 7 o r 1 \ \ C^-q r*n In vl^c nurco ot rlrnikmnn PV xu vxdriiK.1! K b inline ui ui iiiKinunc y , . 02 13 4 xu xdsiey j^.iiiisiiuu»c, 00 1 0 To beggars on the road, 00 1 0 1 rvct ot vrlc nmir oviri t n pn 111 n /llTI j-iOSb at caius now dim men in j_juiii., 11 12 6 lfi XU. To Kilbar box XU XVllUCtl. UUA., ... 00 1 0 17. To the contribution for the prisoners in the Basse, 01 9 0 18. To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 19. To Pasley post with a letter East, 00 2 0 For mending a sadle at Pasley, 00 3 4 92 CUNNINGHAM OF CHAIGENDS [1677 Mar. 21. I gave further to the contribution for trip con pt*< p.t flip TIqccp L11C IJ1 loUilCl 0 CLL L11C XJdooC, ^02 16 u 90 1 o oprrrravc fit T^fiiilc»v A, A*. X KJ UCl^yalS CtL X (l.TlC V . . . 00 V/V/ s n u 23. Pasley Kirk box, 00 1 X o 24 To .Tp. • f 1 owip cfnoolmrjctpi* nc lnc tip *"vTT. X 17 CL. v-U>t ICj oCil VJ17111 Icto LCI , do lllo 11C tov 11 iv Inline in K il licnvripm vnliin- IK J I Illy IclllLlo 111 JVlll7cll C11CI1, > cllUCl- tion being 431. 13. 4, between Mart 1fi75 & Afqrt 1 9fl(\ IVXdl L. XU 1 U 111. V> L1I1 llli^lltllll, IclLllCl o livotliPT* c con at tlip cpIiooI ot H71V7L11C1 o oL/11, 'o to Trwin with *S»-L7. 1 VI f > 111 itlUUlUC H7 J"*i Li/ XI >> ill W1L11 1C L LCI c>, . . . . 00 12 X o u 9m to a nnnr man tncit lmn CI Lvy L11C oCl > CL11 Lo L11C1 C, . 00 uu O o u XU Ucggcilo UpUll Lllc iUclU, no uu 1 1 u 1 To tliP TCirl- Hoy of TironP X. XU Lllc Xvlllv DUX (Jl X^/lUllc, no uu 4, u 4^ To littlp "RpII VJntlivPii tr. XU 11 L Lie XJcll XVHLll>cllj 00 3 4 TP S To T^ronp TCirk liox on uu 9 o 1 O 1 s-\ o i"\/^ov mon "Tiiat Iiqm q toctmioniQ 1 X/C. XU d UtJUI llldll LIldL lldLl d Leo LllllUllldl, 00 4 u 1/^ To bpcrcrnrs: pit tlip D'atp of "Duncviih X f-/. 1 V7 LJC^^CXl O CLL L11C ^CVLC Ul X_/ Ll 1 1V^ 1 LI iJ, • 00 V/V/ n V7 10 1U 1 Fi To trip TCitk riov of Dronp 1 f V . 1 U L11C 11 11 IV i 7 v 7 -V 171 X-/1L711C, • • no uu 9 o 1Q To Tolm Will at Frpplnnrl XiJ. XU UUllil XXlll dL X?lccldllLl ? . . 00 3 4, TP 20. To Robert Black at Freeland for bleed- ' ing my horse & keeping him, 00 12 0 22. To the Kirk box of Drone & the beggars, .... 00 4 4 23. To a beggar, .... 00 0 4 24. To my wife of Camrick she bought in winter to be the gravats, . 01 14 0 1677] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 93 April 24. To James Mortoim to bear his & a horse's charges home, and a night in Irwin & back to Freeland again, i?01 16 0 roi* a shoo to thp iin whip J_ v/ 1 Cl OllWU L V ' LIlvT 17 V 7 11 lllvT, • • 00 4 0 V/ X 171 cl LI llclll Ul M a I , . 00 \J\J 4 o O^v fii vpn of firinksil vpv a +" T^rpplonrl IVTill .^•7. VJ1VCU 171 1X1 llltVoll V Cl Cl L J- I CClclillA 1VX111, 00 v/v/ a u V/ O^ 1 r\ Yin rHar>Lr Tnr 1/ pom n (V i"»T\r linrco rCO. 1U X\U. XJlclLlv 1UI KCCjJlll^ my IlUloCj . 00 V/V/ u o V/ OQ ^ 1 \ 1 l^ViO TCll'L" l"»r»V it TlVrillA AvT" llOfTfTQT'C ~,/. X U LIlC XYllK UU\ clL I'lUllc CV UcggciiS, 00 V/V/ 4 n To hpcro'fiTS at thp Cxatp of Frppland 00 o 8 3. To the ferry boat of Erne, 00 4 o 4i Son 4" 4t» ^'1" .Tnliiie' L T»i in "f"o cmqtm"» 0 x • OC11 L LU OU tJ UIlllSlAllllI IA7 Midi 17 Id/iU 111 • • • • 00 4 o 6. To Drone Kirk box & beggars, 00 3 8 11. To a violer at Freeland, 00 12 0 1 r |\-\ "Drnnp Tv"h*k lin\ - X T liPOFCTflvs: 1 f 7 • 1 U XVI 1711C J V 1 1 IV uu.\ tv L»C£^£^Cll O, . 00 V/ V 7 3 8 T^ot* ttiv li orsp stalilp nt T)i*nnp manv 1 v / 1 Illy 111.71 3t OIC1171V7 Cl L JL/IU11C 111C111 y UoVya, .... 00 4 o 1 4< For a thin littlp hroarli 1 Tt X l/l Cl till 11 11U11C 171 V/ClX^l 1 , • . 00 o 6 IS TVt thp fprrv T boat of Frnp XV7. X U 111L Id 1 V 17V/CIU 171 JL.J111V, . 00 0 8 90 i o Tironp Kivk Ikiv rv liPffffars V HC 1U1 llfcJI (JW11 Use LUc LllllC X Lllcll SLaycCl 111 X 1 1 eeicllKl, 23 0 o To hpr that slip oavd for boardi'iif us. -M~ v>/ li I lull onv ijlaj y v*. iwi uwcviuinc t_*kj^ 42 16 o nils, wiui xA/ in Uciyu in ivxcucn, maKes Jt iu ius Uciyii uciuic x came home. 24. For 2 removes to my brown horse, 00 3 0 To John Hill, 00 2 8 Left of Drinksilver in Freeland, 02 18 0 25. For my quarters that night at Sauchy, 00 16 0 To the servants of drink money, 00 4 0 Custome at Cartintalloch bridge, 00 0 8 For a bait Si Mutchkin wine at Calder, 00 13 6 To beggars on the road, 00 1 0 94 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS 26. To James Black for unshooing mv o J brown horse, 0 8 To Johnstomvs nurse in drinkmoney, 01 9 0 27. To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 31. For Ink, .... 00 0 6 1. To Pasley Kirk box, . 00 1 0 For mv sadles mending at Pasley, J o J " 00 8 0 For a pint of ale to the sadler, 00 1 8 For a choppin of wine in Tho. Wilsons, 00 10 0 8. To Kilbar: box, 00 2 0 To Kilbar: box, 00 1 0 Sent to Paslev for turpentine, 00 1 6 For 3 ells white cloth for livery cloaths, 05 0 0 For 3 ells stringing to the breechknees, 00 1 6 10. To Kilb: box & a beggar, 00 2 4 1 1 . Sent in to Paslev post for carrving some baggage from Edin. in March last, oo o " 01 4 0 To the sd post witli a letter to Edin., 00 2 0 Sent in to be given the post of St. Johnstoun to carry a letter from Edin: to Freeland, 00 4 0 13. To Kilbar. Kirk box, it beino* the Fast, " o " 00 2 0 14. To George Cuningham of charity, 02 18 0 15. To Kilbar: box, ' 00 1 () For a quair of paper, . 00 5 6 16. To Alex Miller when he payd me a bargane of meall that he lost of, . 00 13 4 17. To Killillan Kirk box & beggars, 00 4 4 18. To Kilbarchan box, . 00 2 0 19. To Killillan box & a beggar, . 00 3 () To my father to be sent to Ireland to my Uncle John, being in strait, . 29 0 0 To Ja: Mortoun to complete his year's fie betwixt Whits. 1676 & 1677, . 14 6 0 It should have been 14 lb. 10s., but I rebated 4s. for a housing girth he lost. 20. For my quarters with Richard that night at Cartintalloch and 3 horses, 01 17 0 1677] JJlAJttl x\j>JJ nUUk5xlirlUL.JJ BOOK 95 June 20. To the servants of drinkmoney, £00 5 0 To Cartintalloch bridge of custom, 00 0 Payd at Lithgow for my bait, A \J To beggars on the Road, 00 V/V/ ± For a lemon & oranger. 00 3 21. For a drink in the Coffie house, 00 V/V/ 2 0 For paper, .... 00 1 V/ For exchange of silver buckles to shoots, .... 00 V/V/ Q 0 V/ For ten orangers & two lemons, 00 J- £7 0 V/ For a creel to send them in, . 00 4 6 For Laur: Dae to take my horses to Freeland upon, 00 18 0 For mv two horses meat two nisrhts in Edinburgh, 01 13 0 For a plaister to my horse back, 00 3 0 To Pasley post with a letter home, 00 2 0 22. Spent in the Coffie house, 00 a 0 23. For nine dozen silver buckles to cloaths, .... 08 2 0 For a pair silk stockins, 06 18 0 To the tailour boys at cloathsmaking, 00 4 0 24. To Leith kirk box & beggars, 00 2 0 25. For a pair broidered garters, 02 18 0 For 9 dozen livery buttons, 00 15 0 For a pair new silver buckles of 12 drop weight, 03 6 0 26. To Andrew Greg in part of his fie, 02 0 0 To him to pay his brothering with, 01 4 0 For 2 ells \ purpur cloath for cloaths, 28 10 0 For 4 ells callico to line the coat, 03 4 0 For spflvorp to thp brpprh kupps. 00 17 8 27. For a quair of paper, 00 5 0 28. For a dozen more silver buttons, 00 18 0 To Pasley post with a letter home, 00 2 0 30. Pavd to Andrpw Pnrdip his com lit 07 10 0 July 1. To the Kirk box, 00 1 0 3. For 13 nights chamber maill, 03 18 0 To the servant lass in drinkmoney, . 00 9 0 96 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS 1 1677 July 3. For my fraught and my man's at Leith, .... i J 00 8 0 For a bait at Kinghorn, 00 4 0 For a chop, ale by the way, . 00 0 8 4. For alme to my horse back, . 00 1 0 To my wife, .... 34 16 0 5. To my wife again at parting", . 03 0 0 It. That I bade her give the haugh keeper, but she gave it not, 00 6 8 For 2 horses hire from Kinghorn, 05 8 0 To Freeland & back again, to the boy that ran of drinkmonev, 00 0 Payd at Bruntiland for a bait, 00 8 0 For my fraught & mans over again. . 00 8 0 6. Spent at night in company, . 01 9 0 7. For a quair of paper, . 00 5 8 8. To the Kirk box, 00 1 0 9. Lost at tables, 07 9 6 10. Payd for 5 nights chamber maill, 01 10 0 For a glass & ink, 00 1 8 To Mar: Scot who came with a letter, 00 6 0 11. To Irwin post with a letter, . : 00 4 0 For ane ell, wanting a nail, of tiffany to my wife 02 8 8 Spent with James M c bride and Al: Wilson, .... 01 0 13. For three nights chamber maill, 01 11 4 To the servant lasse of drinkmoney, . 00 6 0 My fraught & my man's at Leith, 00 8 0 14. My quarters that night at Bruntiland, 00 12 0 Drinksilver to the lasse, 00 2 0 For a pint of ale at a horse hiring. 1 0" 00 1 4 For a horse hire to Freeland, . 01 16 0 Drinksilver to the boy that ran, 00 2 0 Left to give Pasley post with a letter, 00 2 0 To my man going on foot to Freeland, 00 2 0 For a bait at Kinaskwood, 00 3 6 To old Henry Kinsman at Freeland, . 00 12 0 15. To the Kirk box of Drone & beggars, 00 3 0 1 677] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 97 July 16. To Laury Dae & my man going to Bruntiland on their foot, 16 0 To Ro: Black to take care of horses^ . 00 12 0 To Laur Dae to take back the horses. €0 6 () For a bait at Auchtertuill, . 00 3 0 For cherries ik. berries in the boat, 00 1 4 Payd of fraught for me & my man, . 00 8 0 17. For my quarters that night at Leith, 00 15 () To the servant lasse of drink money, . 00 2 0 18. Spent at night in company, 01 2 8 19. To Pasley post with a letter home, 00 2 0 Spent at night in company, . 00 5 0 21. For cherries, 00 0 8 Spent at night in company, . 00 11 0 22. To the Kirk box, 00 1 8 23. To Irwin post with a letter & a hat, . 00 6 0 Spent at night in company, . 02 0 6 25. For my dinner at my Ld Ross 1 man's brydall, .... 02 18 0 To the \ iolers at the brydall. 00 6 0 To Pasley post with a letter, . 00 6 0 To John Thomson for neeps, . 00 1 0 27. To Jo: Cuningham with a letter to Freeland, .... 00 6 0 28. For ane ell taip & sewing my pockets, 00 2 8 I gave out for my Lady Ruthven, which she payd my wife, . 00 5 0 30. For a key to my watch, 00 12 0 31. For a stick of wax, 00 6 0 For apples & grosarts, 00 3 4 1 1. To Irwin post with a letter & little sword, .... 00 4 0 2. To Pasley post with a letter home, 00 2 0 For a letter from Richard out of post house, .... 00 5 0 5. To the Kirk box, 00 1 0 6. For pears & apples, . 00 1 0 To the Lady Foord, which she wared for particulars to my wife, 07 14 4 G 98 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS August 7. To the boy that was sent fra Freeland, £00 IS 0 For two letters from France to my Lady Ruthven & my wife, my Lady Ruthven paying my wife for hers, .... 01 9 0 Given of contribution for a poor gentlewoman's burriall, 00 11 4 s. For the proclamation anent Conven- ticles, .... 00 1 0 For my chamber maill, 23 nights, 06 18 8 To the servant lasse of drinkmoney, . 00 12 0 9. Left for Pasley post with a letter home, 00 o 0 For my fraught to Kircaldie, 00 4 4 My reckoning there, . 00 7 6 For a drink at Kineskwood to the boy, 00 0 8 For a horse hire from Kircaldie to Freeland, .... 01 14 0 To my wife, . 14 8 0 10. To the gardener of Freeland, 00 6 0 11. To the haugh keeper's boy, . 00 Q 0 12. To Dron Kirk box and beggars, 00 & 6 13. Ro: Black at Freeland, 00 13 4 To La: Dae at Bruntiland, . 00 16 0 To keep the horses that night, 00 12 0 Payd of fraught to Leith, 00 5 0 14. For quarters that night there, 00 10 0 Drinksilver, .... 00 Q 0 For pears, .... 00 1 0 Given in to the post house with a letter, 00 5 0 For a pound of sweet powder, 00 10 0 To my man in part of his fie, 00 8 0 15. For a staff', .... 00 10 0 Spent at night in company, . 00 3 6 16. Spent in company, 00 12 0 To Pasley post with letter home, 00 2 0 17. Lost at the Billiards, 00 15 0 18. To my Lady Strathnaver's boy for carrying a lanthern to me, 00 6 0 For pears, .... 00 2 0 1677] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 99 23. 24. Aug. 19. To the Kirk box, 20. For brandy gotten long ago to a horse back, For a pair of gloovs, . Spent in company that night, For apples & lighting me home, For threed to my wife, For oranges to Mrs. Jean Rnthven, 25. To my man to keep my horses upon for some days at Bruntiland, For pears at Leith, . 28. Spent at night in company, . 30. To Pasley post & letter home, For my shoos mending a little, For razing me, For plums & pears, . To my man in part of his he, Sept. S. For a little mending to my shoos, 4. Spent in the Come house, 5. Spent in the Coffie house, 8. For my fraught at Leith, 9. For my quarters that night at Auchter tuill, For a bait at Kinneskwood, . For a horse hire from Kinghorn to the Kirk of Drone, To Drone Kirk box, . 10. To the bairns at Freeland, For a compt of horse shooing there, 13. For my quarters that night at Kin- neskwood, For a bait at Bruntiland, and owing formerly when my horses were there, To La. Dae -to take back the horses, Payd of fraught, For my dinner at Leith, For carrying my Maill to Edin., To Pasley post with a letter home, £00 1 0 00 2 6 00 13 4 00 10 0 00 1 0 01 12 0 01 0 0 02 0 0 00 1 4 00 6 8 00 2 0 00 0 8 00 6 0 00 2 0 01 6 8 00 0 6 00 4 0 00 2 6 00 4 0 00 14 0 00 4 8 01 14 0 00 2 0 00 1 0 00 9 0 00 13 4 01 9 0 00 00 00 00 00 100 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS 1 ll 19, 1 o cue post house with a letter to r ranee, i 00 5 0 14. Pot a butt' sword belt, For letters out of France to my wife & 04 4 0 Mr ]{o. Anderson, he paying her his. 01 19 8 15. To my man to bear him to Freeland. 00 10 0 580. For applet, .... 00 0 8 lo l aslev post with a letter home, . 00 Q 0 For about weeks chamber maill. 10 14 0 Drink money to servant lasse. 00 9 0 lor my ordinary diet all the time I i ' i ■ 1 1 i was m Earn: that summer, 54 18 0 Lost at bowling green in that space, . 10 5 () To beggars on the street in that space, OS 9 0 81, For my dinner at Keith, 00 18 () For pears & a new prognostication, . 00 9 0 For my fraught «K: my mans, . 00 «s 0 For a pynt of ale at Kinghorn, 00 o 0 88, For my quarters at Kinaeskwood, For £ horses hire from Kinghorn to 00 10 0 Freeland, .... OS 18 0 8& 1 o the Kirk box 01 Drone, 00 4 0 SO. Twy 1.1 i. r "ii i' i \ I o t he l\ n k box 01 1 Jrone, 00 .'J 4 Lett of drink mone) in Freeland, To Laur: Dae in paymenl <»t* some- thing when mv horses waited on me OS 10 0 at Brunt Hand. 00 10 s For my quarters 0 7. To Killillan Kirk box, 00 o 0 8. For a horse mane-cloath «V making it. 00 17 0 12. To Kilbarchen box, . 00 1 0 i6;7| DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 101 1 A 14. 'I 1 1) 1 V " 1 I u 1 lo rasley Kirk box <\ beggars, £00 2 0 11 1 * ml l l \ f • l rayd m 1 no V\ ilsons, 00 12 10 15. ror corn to my horses, 02 3 4 16. rii f » 1 1 i ■ ' ■ | .. lo .Ma: Allason to maintain linn ox. 00 1 0 To Jo: Lyle for mending boots & shoes, 00 8 0 SI. 1 o Kilbar: Kirk box, 00 0 22. ' 1 " A f l 4 1 1 1* 1* 1 lo Mat: Allason tor rydmg my horse at Uugland rair, 00 6 0 ' 1 ' . V i. 1 I' 1111 1 o my rather tor a boll horsecorn, To my boy Andrew to carry him upon 01 lo 0 his foot to Freeland, 00 16 8 rayd m smalls by my wile to my T 1 . 11 1.1 £ 1.1 L Lady Kuthven in further payment or hoarding, 53 7 8 To my wife for her own use, . 13 5 8 24. To Gavine Moody at my parting, 00 14 0 To dames Farquhar, . 00 6 8 1 o James Jameson, . (H) a o U For a bait at Glasgow . 00 8 6 lo Mr ( has Mowat in paymt or a compt of my wifes, 27 4 0 25. For my quarters that night at Arnbrae, 01 12 0 For a bait at Black foord, 00 6 0 To beggars and for nuts, 00 1 8 26. To And: Greg in part of his fie, 01 6 8 28. To Drone Kirk box and beggars, 00 4 4 To my wife to give the sd box, oo uu 1 13 9 o Q O. \^ luiriiy y ^reciter, . 36 14 TP 4. V_y 1 1 CA<1. X u y • XV oo\_ 1 « • 12 11 6 5. Mv o-ifts 8 3 8 6. Drinksilver, 38 Q 8 7. Travelling & taverns, 23 1 9 8 8. Other incident expenses, . 7 1 1 j. i 4 9. Payd of my man's ties, 31 5 i n 10. Lost at games, 30 8 u Spent by neither of us, being the bur den of land, as follows — 1. Few duty, 2 years, ^33 6 8 Q Schoolmaster's ties, 3 12 4 ^330 17 6 36 19 0 ^1392 12 1 1678. Jan. 5. For a link to light us through the street, . . . 00 3 4 12. For 10 Ells J scarlet ribbon to my sisters, . . . 06 6 0 For a new piriwick to myself, . 13 4 0 To the piriwick maker's boy, . . 00 6 0 For 4 new thin Hoods to my sisters, 03 0 0 For a brow lace to my sister Rebecca, 02 0 0 18. Expenses of my horses coming in for me, .... Payd in John Mitchells for my 2 horses meat 3 nights, and a dinner with wine when I came in with my wife in November, . . 05 17 0 30. Payd for my quarters, 2 nights, in Glasgow, drinksilver and all, . 07 4 0 For a horse brush there, . . 00 12 0 Feb. 5. To the 2 servant lasses in Craigends, . 01 4 0 9. For my boy's bed a month & more, . 00 13 4 01 6 4 106 CUNNINGHAM OF CKAIGENDS [1678 r eo. 1 0 1-4. For a staff, .... lo u For a knife, .... nn uu o o u 16. ueain, .... m Ul Q O n 19. x or ane all 01 ^ounseu, uu J, n u 28. To the Placers hov in Parliament House, .... nn uu /? O w o March 2. For pens, ink, & knife sharping, nn uu 1 a A •i. For a Consultation of lawyers about the public business of Lawburrows, on o n u 11. For 4 ounces Sope to raze me with, . nn uu o o n u lo. For Thrpprl lbs 4< X Ul JL ill CCLl, . . rj 11)7* T5 x rins, . . os 1 Q 111 1*1 L' I / 1 L'O -l/'iiw OH/1 ^dlliriLK LO IIlclKc Icttfs ,111(1 gravata 01, . . ou> n^ uo o u 351. Drunk at barganing tor niv horse, nn uu A •i o 1 in 1 n L' 0 1 r\oi'niuut (vuffiudp T/11* Mini xvruiiK at payiiitriii gcLimg lor 111m, . nn uu n u cm To my boy for drinksilver he should have gotten at my horse selling, . nn UU 1 O IJc u April 0. to Enterkin s ]\Iaissons at the tomb. nn uu 1 0 n u 11. To my wife to buv a gown, ol 1 O LA, u For the double of Cassills complaint, nn uu A U LO. For a dozen & half silver buttons for cloaths, m Ul i n iu u xo Liie lanour uo\ lor mtriiuiiig them, .... nn uu u For silk to them, nn uu 1 1 17. x or iu ciozcii iivciv uulluiis, . 00 4 i 18. x or Liie nariaii\e 01 piiiiieci paptri, uu 4. u To my wife to pay her gown-making, i T i ± J. n u |/i mv u*i TP 4- r\ l~niv a cforf jl \J ill y vv lie LyJ U Ll V ct oi_cvli, . 08 14 o 19. For a dozen of oranges, 00 uu l ft io n u 23. Snpnt at mv Fadv Naniprs wonian\ brydall, .... .03 16 0 29. Given of charity upon the streets since January, 02 0 0 May 1. For dressing my sword a little, .00 2 0 For a pair of bootstockins, .01 16 0 DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 107 Q O. To James Cowie, Schoolmaster of Kil- barchen, as his fie for my lands liphi-PPTi Mart 1 ft7fi Sir Mart 10 m, lo A. -b i n 1U. For 2 ells ^ cloath to be mv boys ll\ei> LiOdllls, no 1 ft lo n u 1 7 For 6 quarters searge to be my boy breeches, .... m Ul 9 0 For 3 ells stringing to the knees, 00 2 0 To Kilmardinnie's son at Pasley, 00 6 0 9ft jl o >v in. oiia>N , uargarrcii s sou, no q u 1 1 . To Robert Houston for blood-letting, i 1 Po Doctor Johnstoun whom I sent for, I allowed to Ninian Parker, at his rent- paying, as the half of the burden Oft 1 0 IU u he bare of the souldiers, 07 U i 10 u I allowed to James Walkinshaw, on the said account, . OQ 10 t o. I allowed to Arch: Arthur, on the said account, the souldiers being there Oft A n-vra xo da\s, .... Oft ft o n u I allowed to Peter Waker, on said dllULllll, .... 06 15 6 i n 1U. I allowed to Hugh Cochran, on said account, .... Ofi 0 9 ^» 11. To Erskine Ferry on my way East, 00 UO 0 i ft lo. For a pair shoos & a pair slippers, 04 U 4 * 2 U To the shoemaker's boy, 00 uu a 0 For 3 pieces of small satin ribbon. i l) ror 6 ells broad ribbon, 09 1 7 o u Th\^t* 1 1 nn7on cilL' hnttniK X Ol Li. LlO/lcll S11K UULLU11S, 02 15 0 For 3 dozen small buttons, 00 Q c o 22. For milk out in the park, 00 uu 0 u For 5 ells of broad blue ribbon, 09 o o 26. Spent in company with young Greenock, 00 13 4 27. For ane horn comb, . 00 8 0 28. To Doctor M c Gill for his pains about my wife & me, 20 0 0 7. For whey in the park, 00 9 0 108 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1678 July 1 Q It). ror 0 ells ^ <5 1 1 1 s to he my cloatns, at Q 11-. O, , . ^ .11 0 lb Jss ane ell, 1 V lo u For 3 ells ^ searge to line the coat, . (\A U4 A. 0 For 3 ells black ribbon for stringing, uu 1 O 1U U For a pair silk stockins, u / A. U 15. For a pair of gloovs, . 00 15 0 LO. For a knife, .... uu 1 0 1U u ror a rrencn riatt, Uo u u 1 I. For clierries, .... UU 1 0 22. For grosarts, .... 00 1 (i /CO. Mo 17/1 I f\ r OTl'U'L 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I >' 1 ) • 1 1 1 1 1 \T *Jllil i dyu lo x an ilk i^uiiiiigiiaiii 01 apo- thecary compts — For myself, 06 4 6 For my wife, 27 7 6 24. To the Macer's boy. . To a goldsmith for exchange of 8 ounces 00 6 0 4 drop of old silver buckles of a sword belt into a new Caddell pot of 12 ounces and 5 drop, at 8s an ounce for workmanship, and 3s an ounce more because the buckles were not of the best silver, 18 4 0 25. To Andrew Purdie in payment of my last cloath's making, 08 13 0 27. For a book called Clerk's Lives, 11 14 0 29. For mending my breeches & furniture, For my sword keeping twice at the 00 6 0 Tolbuith, . 00 2 0 August 1. To my wife, .... 29 0 0 2. For a staff to myself, . 02 4 0 For a little pocket brush, 00 2 6 5. For grosarts, .... 00 1 0 6. For stringing of my watch, 00 12 0 7. For a buff sword belt, 00 4 0 8. For 7 quarters broad blew ribbon, 00 14 0 13. To a tron man for transporting coffers, 00 4 0 15. For the Act of Convention of Estates, 00 12 0 To Pasley Post with a cloath bagg, . 01 2 8 For coach hire to Leith, 00 6 8 1678] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 109 7. T hIIoWpH to •Tohll AllflrPW iit rpnt paying, as depursed by him for liunntpiiiiiirp of thp soiildipvs that lay heir in March, £01 12 0 17. To Will Shaw, Bargarren's son, 22. To mv mstpv Crva 111 dtp's midwifp A IIXV OlulLl VJi A CClllC^Vw O llllvl •< 111^, • 01 fi g 26. For soiiip r]i*no*o'*i 0*0+ from .Tim Knriipll J. KJl. OUlllv HI U^^o ^Ul/ 11U111 ~ f ( 1 1 T k . ' J ,/ 1 H L 1 1 ^ 03 2 0 5. T iillowpd to .Tonpt Upio 1 fit thp rom- pleiting of her rent, as the half of her burden for the blew coat soul- diprs w lipii thpv wpt*p hpir V I 1 L. 1 0 II 11x^11 L 1 1 V- J »' V. 1 11K.11 , • 09 11 22. To a private contribution for a minister, 04 5 0 25. To Pasley Post to take home my horses, 01 0 0 L For exchange of a pair silver shoo- buckles, .... 00 18 0 2. FoT* fi POOV of tllP UPW^ JlllOllt tllP Tnot 00 2 0 7. For a new proclamation, 00 1 0 Po iTiv nov "fni* lii<; li'itt nrpwnff 1 1' illy uu y lkjl 111s littLL incooiii^, 00 4 0 r or thp livnpl n mil ti on of thp Fast X KJL \jilKZ IJ1 Uv Ictllld L1W11 Ul Lllw 1 CVo L , • 00 1 0 Fni* i*00 rlm^tpiis to spud to Fvpplfnid 01 7 0 -T ui a pi 111 Leu. papei, . 00 v/l / i _i u 19. To Auchinharvie's woman for red hering, 00 6 0 28. For wine and chastens, 00 8 6 29. To my wife to give Auchinharvie 1 s midwife. .... 02 13 4 Sumrna of Discharge 1678. Januarii . . £74 7 6 Februarii, 60 0 8 Martii, . 166 16 8 Aprilis, . 141 9 10 Maii, 100 7 0 Junii, 232 7 6 Julii, 121 5 4 Augusti, . 209 15 4 Septembris, 14 7 6 Octobris, . 60 11 4 110 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1678 Novembris, . . . £89 10 8 Decembris, . . . 85 11 0 Discharge 1678, . ^1356 10 4 Brief' Note showing June the above was expended, I. Imp. Given to my wife of it, . . £251 & 6 II. That she and I had both a hand in, as follows : — Boarding, for horses and all, . £556 11 2 Horse furniture & shooing, 112 6 567 13 8 III. Debursed by myself, — 1. On my bodie's abuilzie- ments, . £188 9 8 2. Other little buyings, 47 17 2 %. Charity (greater), . 08 0 4 4. Charity (lesser), . 08 4 2 5. My gifts, . 18 0 10 6. Drinksilver, 15 15 4 7. Travelling and taverns, 24 1 6 8. Other incident expense, . 30 7 8 9. Payd of my men's ties, 21 0 2 10. Lost at games, . 09 7 6 371 6 4 IV. It: Spent by neither of us, being the burden of the land as follows — Public burdens, Schoolmaster's fie, &c, . 66 6 10 Summa, . £1256 10 4 I lent out at Martimas 1678 for @ rent to my father, . . . . 666 13 4 ^2023 3 8 This beside the 800 Merles lent him at Marti- mas 1677. For both which I have one band of him for 1800 Merles. 1679] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 111 1679. Janry. 3. For chesnuts and walnuts to send to the Craigends, . . . ^01 1 0 10. To John Dick, who came from home with an express and money, . 00 18 0 24. For stockings soalling, . . 00 3 4 25. For a Coach roome from Leith, . 00 2 0 For buttons to my breeches, . . 00 2 0 28. Spent at David LumsdaTs brydale, . 02 18 0 Feb. 14. For a stick of wax, . . 00 6 0 For pay of my boy's bed 8 weeks, . 01 4 0 He ran away with my money, . 01 4 10 For a coach hire to my wife, . . 01 6 0 March 4. For a little book called the Apollogy, 00 13 4 11. To buy a Bible to David Smith, . 01 10 0 13. Paid for the cloath of my winter west- coat, . . . 02 10 6 14. For physick to take at home, . 03 10 0 For a mutchkin sack at taking coach, 00 11 0 17. For a mourning cloak gotten on the 29 Jan r but omitted, . . 00 12 0 18. For my picture drawing, . . 23 18 0 27. Spent at the hunting, . . 00 12 0 29. I payd my Father's compt, making the first yeir's duty due at Martimas 1678, which I am to pay him yeirly for Robert Lyle's entresse silver, which I got, . . 40 0 0 Sent to Pasley for ink, . . 00 1 0 April 3. To James Spreull for bloodletting of me, . . . 01 16 0 14. Spent at the hunting, . . 00 3 10 21. To my uncle Richard's children at Irwin, . . . 00 16 2 May 31. Left in Mr Gab: Cunninghames of drinksilver, . . 00 18 6 June 6. For a horse hire to the Craigends, . 00 8 0 27. To my wife to give Margaret Dick at parting from Craigends, . . 00 13 4 112 CUNNINGHAM OF CKAIGENDS [1679 June 27. To little Allan Glen, . ^00 3 0 30. To Ja: Jamieson to take home the horses, .... 01 0 0 To himself for his pains in that voyage, 00 14 0 July 9. For razour-berries in a yeard, 00 4 0 10. To Pasley Post for bringing west our baggage in March last, 03 8 0 To my wife that she gave for a night gowne, .... 28 0 0 For a book called 4 Allan's Alarm," 01 9 0 July 15. For ale and berries in bowlling green, 00 3 0 24. For a new Bible and pock to it, 03 4 0 26. For seeing the plav acted, 01 9 0 30. For grosarts in the bowling green, 00 3 0 A ug. 7. Left of Drinksilver at Burlav, 01 15 0 To the plaisterers there, 00 6 0 Custome at the Bridge of Earne, 00 1 8 9. At the Ferrv boat of Earn, . 00 1 0 16. For the Proclamation Indemnitory, . 00 1 0 Sept. 1. To the maissons building the dyke, . 00 6 8 15. To Jo: Lvle for a pair of shoos, 02 0 0 To the sd John for mending shoos, . 00 7 0 19. For half a dozen of "irthheads, 00 3 0 27. To James Cowie for writing four doubles of the Apollogie about London businesse, 03 0 0 28. Payd of Expense in Pasley, . 00 2 0 Oct. Given to answer at the Head Court and Regalitie Court upon Proxie, 00 13 0 13. Payd as my half of the assessment of 2 mk. on the 100 lb. upon the paroch of Kilbarchen for repair- ing the Kirk, my valuation ther being 431. 13. 4.,' 02 17 6 I payd as my half of the scholmaster's fie in Kilbarchen, at 17s. 4d. on the 100 lb., for the yeir ending at Martimas 1678 for the said 431. 13. 4. valuation, 01 17 6 1679] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 113 Oct. 15. For furnishing to a suit of cloaths 3 ells J searge to line them, i?02 6 11 dozen mandel buttons at 3s., 3 dozen small buttons, 12 drop of silk, . 1 ell of waiting, 1 ounce of thread, 1 quarter of stenting, 01 00 00 00 00 00 13 4 16 2 1 1 8 0 6 0 4 8 10 Tndp in haill £05 6 0 Snpiit fit iiiiAnTio" t npni 00 o 10 nr»v ri'H'incT "Hid r»lr»Q"fli "Mia cmn 1 Ul llLLlIlii Lilt ClUclLIl L\t LIlc ftdlLl 0 V_ H 'cA l 1 • • • • 01 8 Qt) L gdv c my VVllc 111 iVldlLIl IctaL dllc Carolus, or broad 20s. sterling peice of gold that fell in my hand at gaming but stood me, 16 16 0 31. For dressing my sword and making a new scabbard to it, 01 17 0 Nov. 1. For nuts, .... 00 2 8 10. For a quilt night cap, 00 10 0 19. For dressing my hatt, 00 2 0 26. For apples, .... 00 1 0 Dec. 6. To a boy James Gemmill in arles, having fied him to be my man, . 00 6 0 10. For the Appendix Church History, . 00 9 0 26. For a book called Allan's Remains, . 01 6 0 Summa of Disc Januarii, . Februarii, Martii, Aprilis, Maii, Junii, Julii, August ii, Septembris, H harge 1679. £61 1 2 68 9 8 239 12 10 07 18 2 09 1 30 0 94 9 141 4 13 11 114 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1679 Octobris, . . . £306 4 10 Novembris, . . . 128 9 2 Decembris, . . . 243 15 2 £1343 17 2 Brief note shewing how the Jbrsaid 1343. 17. 2. was expended. I. Imprimis: Given to my wife of it, . £310 13 8 II. It: That she and I had both alike hand in, as follows : — 1. Our boarding and horse meat, . . . £539 12 8 2. Horse furniture & shoo- ing, . . . 02 14 4 542 7 0 III. Depursed by myself — 1. On my body's abuilzie- ments, . £86 11 0 2. Other little buyings, 13 0 4 3. Charity (greater), 141 13 0 4. Charity (lesser), . 11 6 10 5. My gifts, . 32 10 6 6. Drinksilver, 19 1 10 7. Travelling and Taverns, . 27 0 6 8. Other incident expenses, . 15 0 4 9. Payd of my mens fies, 12 17 10 359 4 2 IIII. It: Spent by neither of us, but otherwise debursed as the burden of lands : — 1. Public burdens, or cesse, . £58 5 8 2. Few duties, . 33 6 8 3. The duty I pay for Robert LyUe, . . 40 0 0 131 12 4 £1343 17 2 1680] DIARY AND HOUSEHOLD BOOK 115 Jan. 2. Faydatthe Weigh-nouse tor weighing me. o£00 4 0 8. Given at the Playhouse, 01 7 0 13. lo my boy having his hat robbd, 00 13 4 For a link, .... 00 3 0 20. Jbor a Proclamation ; Pens and Ink, . 00 3 2 28. For a little old sword, 00 16 3 Feb. 7. For a Proclamation, . 00 0 10 lb. lor Pens, .... 00 1 0 25. rp„ i 1 _ l 1 x* j_ 1 T i ' • lo the doorkeepers oi the Justiciary, 00 12 0 27. lor a Confession oi laith and Catechism, 01 5 0 Mar. 10. For a pair of new boots, 12 1 0 13. For two printed papers, 00 2 2 15. ror a pair oi spurrs, . 00 16 8 16. lor mending my boys sword, 00 6 0 17. lor a Main Pullion and Crirths to it, 00 16 0 18. lor a new Proclamation, 00 2 4 oo lo a poor Widdow on my own ground, 00 13 4 April 15. Criven to help to ransome a captive (jrreenock man from the lurks, . 00 13 4 May 3. lor ribbon to ty my sleeve, . 00 4 4 21. Spent for horse meat at Pasley, 00 1 10 June 12. For a sight of the Elephant, . 00 16 8 15. For a Pad and Pad -covering to my wife, 08 0 0 16. For a printed paper and oranges, 00 4 0 17. lor Pools Nullity of the Koman laith, 01 8 0 For a Funerall of the Masse, . 00 8 0 21. For Corbet's Kingdome of God, 00 4 0 25. For a nightgown to my wife, 28 0 0 For a ounce of threed to her, 01 16 0 Nota. — Beside this I have a compt of my expense in that voyage to Edin: being 34 lb. 18s. 8d., which, seeing it was only upon other folks business, and that I was keept from being at home, I ought to have off these, besides my depursements of law for them. July 17. To John Millar for an iron bullet lie found, . . . 00 2 0 116 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS [1680 July 30. For a black Cawdebink Hatt, . £06 V/ Aug. 17. Sent for turpentine to my horse back, 00 2 4 Sept. 20. For materialls to make ink of, 00 a u o 30. For Will: Shaw, Bargarren's son, 01 8 yj o Oct. 1. To a boy for a quick partridge, 00 rii 2. For a pigg to make ink in, . 00 2 o 4. For a poor man, once landward school- master, .... 00 18 o 12. Given to Ro: Park to take out a proxy, and for instrument money, and his pains to answer at the Head Court and Regality Court, 02 0 Nov. 6. For a light hunting Sadie, 04 16 o For curpeltee, bridle, and stirrup leather, 05 8 8. To my wife to give her woman for her bountith shoo's, . 01 6 8 17. To a broken family that came through with a testificat, 00 14 o Dec. 3. For 8 dozen buttons to mount an old suit for myself, 01 12 0 7. Sent to Glasgow for 76 apples, 01 6 Q o 9. Spent at the ice, 00 16 K) 21 . To the Kirk beddall for crying, and pay- ing for list providing preachings, 00 11 o Summa of Discharge looO. Januarii, . . . <£T24 4 0 Februarii, .090 16 6 Martii, . . . 132 3 6 Aprilis, . . . . 93 17 4 Maii, . . . 40 17 10 O Ullll, .... lt/1 -Li7 6 Julii, . . . 33 5 4 Augusti, . . 45 8 10 Septembris, . . . 112 16 4 Octobris, . . 33 10 0 Novembris, . . 20 12 6 Decembris, . .300 14 4 Discharge 1680, . ,£1226 6 0 APPENDIX. SCHEME Probation of the Rental and Value OF THE Lands and Estate of the deceased ALEXANDER CUNING- HAM of Cralgends ; And of the yearly Feu-duties pay- able forth of the same : As proven by the Tenants, and Walter Turnbull the Factor concurring, their Testimonies, the Tenants Tacks, and the Vassals Feu-rights produced ; in Obedience to the Lords Act and Commission, in the Process of Sale and Ranking at the Instance of Ensign William Cuningham, his only Son and apparent Heir, against his Father's Creditors, and with their Consent. 118 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS PARCEL l*/. BY William Paterson, in Mains of Craigends, for Part of the said Mains, of yearly Rent, .... On the yearly Rent of the Gardens of Craigends, . By Gavin Houston, for Part of Mains of Craigends, of yearly Rent, By Ditto, of Vicarage, by and attour his Rent, . By John Carswall Tenant there, for Part of the said Mains, of yearly Rent, ....... Robert White and John Black, upon the yearly Rent of the Parks of Craigends, ....... The 12 Kain Fowls, as by Depositions of the said Witnesses, con- verted at Five-pence per Piece, inde .... To be deduced a Proportion of 13 s. 4 d. Sierl. of Schoolmaster's Salary, conform to his Receipt, effeir- ing to this Parcel, inde . . . L. 0 2 1^ There being 7 Bolls of Parsonage-tiend payable out of these Lands, and the other Lands of Craigends after-named, in the Parochine of Kilbarchane, and 4> I. 6 s. 11 d. Sterl. of yearly Vicarage ; with the Burthen of both which, the Heritor has Right to the Teinds ; a Proportion of the said Parsonage- tiend, valued at 10 Merks per Boll, as by the Depo- sitions of William Wood and Alexander Finlayson, effeiring to this Parcel comes to . . 0 16 0 And of the said Vicarage, . . . 0 15 10— After the above Deductions, there remains of free Rent, By Charter produced, the above Lands hold Taxward of the Prince ; 1 and by the Depositions of the said William Wood and Alexander Finlayson upon the Value, they are deponed upon to be worth 24 or 25 Years Purchase of the free Rent. Inde the above free Rent, at 24 Years Purchase, . The House of Craigends, Office-houses, Ground of the Woods of Craigends, and Timber thereon, and Coal in the Ground, are, by the foresaid Depositions of Messrs. Wood and Finlayson, valued at ...... Inde Total Value of this First Parcel, .... 1 Certain lands, lying mostly in the shires of Ayr, Renfrew, and Ross, were in the reign of Robert in. erected into a Principality for the King's eldest son, the Prince of Scotland. The Prince's Vassals, equally with the Crown Vassals, were entitled to vote for the Commissioners of shires. The Prince of Wales holds the title ' Baron of Renfrew.' — [Ed.] APPENDIX 119 Sterling. L sh. d. Q 6 8 3 6 8 3 6 8 0 1 5 0 0 50 0 0 64 1 0 5 0 64 6 1ST 1 14 0 T 2 2 62 12 lj% to >j D b a s. ^ *s "* a s s 0:0 0 6 0 0 0:0 0 b 0 0 0:0 0 12 0 0 L. 1502 10 4 300 0 0 1802 10 4 I 120 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS PARCEL 2d. BY Robert White, of yearly Rent, for the Lands of Nether Craigends, ....... By Ditto, of Vicarage, by and over his Rent, 28 Bolls Victual, as by the foresaid Depositions, converted at 10 Merks per Boll, inde . And 30 Kain Fowls, converted, as by the Tenants Depositions, at 5 d. per Piece, inde ...... 12 Days Service, converted, as by the said Depositions, at 10 d. per Day, ....... To be deduced, a Proportion of the said School- master's Salary, effeiring to this Parcel, . L. 0 1 1 T G ^ And of Parsonage, . . . . 0 8 4 ^ And of Vicarage, . . . . 0 8 4 After the above Deductions, there remains of free Rent . These Lands of Nether Craigends, holding of a Subject; by the Depositions of the foresaid Witnesses on the Value, they are deponed upon to be worth 23 Years Purchase of the free Rent. Inde the above free Rent, at 23 Years Purchase, . PARCEL 3d. BY John Caldwell, of yearly Rent, for the Lands of Achens, By Hugh Cochran, of yearly Rent, for the Lands of Hywrays, By James Hall, for the Lands of Bootstoun, of yearly Rent, And the said 41 Bolls 8 Pecks and a half of Victual, as by the foresaid Depositions, being converted at 10 Merk per Boll, inde The 24 Kain Fowls, converted, as by the Tenants Depositions, at 5 d. per Piece, inde ...... And the 4 Days Service, being valued, by the said Depositions, at 10 d. per Day, inde ...... APPENDIX 121 Sterlmg. Z. sh. d. 16 13 4 0 7 6 17 0 10 15 11 1^ 0 12 6 0 10 0 33 14 5 T % 0 17 9i§ 32 16 7ft 13 17 9ft 9 3 4 3 0 2ft 26 1 4 23 0 10 0 0 3 4 4.9 16 1ft .5. p. 20:0 16:0 4 : 81 5:0' 14:8J 0 12 0 12 [2 0 8 30 0 12 35:81 6 24 0 755 2 4J 122 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS From this to be deduced a Proportion of the said School-master's Salary, effeiring to this Parcel, . . . L. 0 1 7^% And of Parsonage-teind, . . . .0 12 4 T 4 ^ And they pay, per Je, of Vicarage-teind, . . 0 1 1 T 4 ^ The said Lands of Achens, Rywrays, and Bootstoun, with the Superiority of the Lands immediately after-men- tioned, holding of the Crown for the Relief of 1 /. Sterl, yearly to the Lord of Erection, the said Duty falls to be deduced, inde . . .10 0 Remains of free Rent, after the above Deductions, The said Lands, holding of the Crown, by the foresaid Depositions of Messrs. Wood and Finlayson, are valued to be worth 24 or 25 Years Purchase of the free Rent. Inde the Value of the Lands, at 24 Years Purchase of the free Rent, extends to ..... By Hugh Cochran, of yearly Feu for Clippens, and Two-thirds of Windyhill and Bootsmailen, ... By Margaret Cordiner, of yearly Feu for her North Third of Ditto Windyhill, &c. . By Depositions of Messrs. Wood and Finlayson on the Value, the Superiority of Feu-holdings is deponed upon to be worth 30 Years Purchase of the above Feu-duty, inde . L. 1 3 1 5 1 0 And to be worth one Year's Purchase of the free Rent of the Lands, which, by Hugh Cochran, John Paterson, and Margaret Cordiner, (the 25th, 26th, and 27th Witnesses on the yearly Rent) is deponed to be as follows, viz. Hugh Cochran of Rent for the Lands of Windy- hill, . . . . . L. 3 0 8 And Do. for Clippens, . . . 5 5 11 And Margaret Cordiner for her Third of Do. 112 0 9 18 7 So that the total Value of this Third Parcel, and foresaid Feu duties, is ....... APPENDIX 1^3 Sterling. I., s/i. d. 1 15 l r 4 o 48 1 0^ 0 7 10 T 4 Y 0 1 4 0 9 2 T % B. P. ! 3 In all L. 115.3 4 4 23 14 5 1176 18 9 124 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS PARCEL Uk. Property Lands in and about the Burgh of Barony of Kilbarchan. BY a yearly Rent out of Waterstoun, of . By Alexander Millar, of Rent for a House, two Acre of Land and a Yard, in and about Kilbarchan , . Do. for another Piece of Ground contiguous, Do. of Rent for another House and Yard in Kilbarchan, . By John Barber, of Rent for his Possession in and near Kilbarchan, Do. of Vicarage, over and above his Rent, By Mr. George Warner, for the Rent of three Rood of Land near Kilbarchan, ....... By the Widow of N id Mac \ id, of Rent for a House and Yard there, By Humphrey Barber, of Rent for a House and Yard, Barn, Land, Sfc. there, ....... Do. of Vicarage, over and above his Rent, By John Boyd, of Rent for a House and Yard in Kilbarchan, By John Park, of Kent for Houses and Yards there, By Robert Barr, of Rent for half an Acre of Land at Kilbarchan, . By William Moodie, of Rent for a House and Yard there, By Archibald Scot, of Rent for a House and Yard there, . By James Hair, of Rent for a House, Yard, and Acre of Land there, By John Hair, of Rent for a House and Yard there, By William lloustoun, of Rent for a House and Yard there, By Robert lloustoun, of Rent for a House and Yard there, By Janet Gardiner, of Rent for Houses, Yard, and three Rood of Land there, ....... By John Li/le, of Rent for half an Acre of Land near Kilbarchan, . By William Bryden, of Rent for an Acre and 22 Falls of Ground there, By James Young, of Rent for a House and Yard there, By James Aiken, of Rent for two Houses and an Acre of Land there, The above Parcel of Lands, being the Vicar Lands of Kilbarchan, by Charter-hold of the Crown, for the yearly Feu of 10/. Scots, which is to be deduced from the above Rental, bide . . . 0 16 8 To be further deduced a Proportion of the said School- master's Salary, hide . . . .0 0 And a Proportion of the foresaid Vicarage-teind,comingtoO 5 8 Remains, after these Deductions, of free Rent, And the said Lands, holding of the Crown, are, by the Deposi- tions of the said Messrs. Wood and Finlayson, deponed upon to be worth 24 or 25 Years Purchase. hide the Value of this Parcel, at 24 Years Purchase of the free Rent, APPENDIX Sterling. L. sh. d. 0 16 8 2 10 0 0 8 4 0 11 2 13 4 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 3 16 8 0 0 5 0 11 1 3 4 0 8 4 1 1 0 0 6 8 1 7 0 6 8 0 6 8 0 15 0 1 10 0 0 () 8 0 15 0 0 10 0 1 13 6 22 18 9 T * 1 3 1 T 2 ^ 21 15 8^ 126 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS By Thomas Young, of yearly Feu, for Ground at Kilbarchan, as described by his Charter, ..... By Robert Harvieson, of yearly Feu, for Ground there, as described by his Charter, ....... By John Bryden, of yearly Feu, for his Lands there, as described in his Charter, ....... By John Lyle, of yearly Feu, for an Acre of Land near Kilbarchan, By William Bryden, for two Houses, a Yard, and Acre of Land near Kilbarchan, ...... By John Houstoun, of yearly Feu, for a House and Yard there, By John Spier, of yearly Feu, for a House and Piece of Ground there, ........ By Alexander Spier, of yearly Feu, for House, Yard, and Acre of Land there, ....... By John Barber, of yearly Feu, for Ground there, as described in his Charter, . By Depositions of said Messrs. Wood and Finlayson, it is deponed upon, that the Feu-duties are worth 30 Years Purchase, hide . . . . L. 57 1 8 And one Year's Purchase of the Rent of the Lands, deponed upon to be as follows : By William Bryden (and the 23d and 24th Witnesses) on the second Act and Com- mission, the Rent of his Feu-subject, to be yearly . . . L. 7 0 0 And by John Bryden the 14th, (23d and 24th Witnesses) the Rent of his Feu-subject yearly to be . . . . 2 10 • 0 And by John Lyle, (and the 23d and 24th Witnesses) the yearly Rent of his Feu- subject to be . . . .4114 And by Robert Harvieson the l6th Witness, (and 23d and 24th Witnesses) the yearly Rent of his Feu-subject to be . . 4 14 3^ And by John Houstoun the 17th Witness, (and 23d and 24th Witnesses) the yearly Rent of his Feu-subject to be . . .18 2 T 6 ^ And by Alexander Spier the 18th Witness, (and 23d and 24th Witnesses) the yearly Rent of his Feu-subject to be . .3 7 0 T \ APPENDIX 127 z. sh. d. 0 5 0 0 8 4 0 1 8 0 5 0 0 3 4 n V/ o n 0 3 4 0 0 10 0 5 1 18 OA Sterling. Z. M. r the 19th Witness, (23d and 24th Witnesses,) that the yearly Rent of the said Robert Millar s Lands in Over Johnston , holding Feu, as said is, of Craigench, is . .4100 L. 15 11 5^ So that the total Value of this 5th Parcel and Feu-duties, is . PARCEL 6th. Tons, Craigbait, Butts and Three-plies. BY Ninian Parker, of Rent for Torr and Torrhill, (beside 10 /. Sterl. of Grassum paid) ..... Ditto, of Parsonage-tiend, over and above his Rent, And of Vicarage, By James Parker in Middle-Torry , of yearly Rent for these Lands (beside Grassum of 100 Merks paid) .... Ditto, of Parsonage over and above his Rent, By Depositions on the Value, where Grassums are paid for a 19 Years Tack, there is to be added to the Rental 10 Merk yearly, for each 100 Merks of Grassum, and so proportionally. hide to be added to James Parker s Rent, .... And to Ninian Parkers Rent, on account of ditto, . By John Kelso, for a Part of Tony, of yearly Rent , Ditto, of Vicarage, by and attour his Rent, By James Lyle, for Rent of Hall of Craigbate, (beside Grassum of 16 /. 13 s. 4 d. Ster. paid) . . . . Ditto, of Parsonage and Vicarage attour his Rent, Added to his Rent proportionally to his Grassum, By James Burr, for the yearly Rent of Butts, (beside Grassum of Ills. Sterl. paid) . Ditto, of Vicarage beside his Rent, .... Added to his Rent, proportionally to his Grassum, By Alexander Cochran, of Rent for Threeplies, (beside Grassum of 100 Merks Scots paid) ...... Ditto, of Vicarage beside his Rent, .... Added to his Rent, proportionally to his Grassum, APPENDIX 133 Sterlim sh. d. 11 2 2_sj 1 2 0 3 6 9 0 0 0 3 7 0 11 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 1 6 5 16 8 0 2 0 1 13 4 2 8 0 0 0 9 0 2 6 18 0 3 6 0 11 44 18 B. P. In all 0:0 2 10 0 0 2:0 0 0 0 0 0:0 2 3 0 0 2:0 0 0 0 0 6:0 2 12 0 0 4J : 0 2 6 0 0 2:0 0 0 0 0 0:0 0 4 0 0 10:0 0 6 0 0 261:0 8 41 0 0 L. 381 55 19 9A 437 9 8 T 8 ^ 134 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS Brought over of PARCEL 6th, . The said 34? one half Bolls of Victual, at the above Conversion And 4-1 Kain Fowls, converted at five Pence, as above, . The Heritor having Right to the Tiends of the Lands in this Parcel, with the Burden of eight Bolls Parsonage-Tiend to the Minister, the said eight Bolls, at the above Conversion, falls to be deduced. hide, . . . . L. 4 8 Item, A Proportion of the Schoolmasters Salary, 0 2 1 T 8 2>* And of the Vicarage to the Minister of Kilbarchan, 0 16 0 ) Remains of free Rent, .... . The above 6th Parcel, being a five Pound Land, holding Taxt- ward of the Prince, is by the said Depositions on the Value, depon'd upon to be worth 24 or 25 Years Purchase of the free Rent. Inde, the said free Rent at 24- Years Purchase PARCEL 7th. The four Merk Land of Caimhill, and the three Merk and a half Land of Locherside, and four Pound Land of Manswray, and four Pound Land of Auchincloigh. BY William Semple, of yearly Rent, for Part of the Lands of Caimhill, ....... Ditto, of Vicarage beside his Rent, By Robert Aikin, of yearly Rent, for Part of the said Lands of Caimhill, ....... By Ditto of ^icarage, beside his Rent, .... By John Horn, of yearly Rent, for Part of ditto Lands By the foresaid John How of Vicarage, beside his Rent, . By John Black, of yearly Rent, for the Lands of Locherside and Hairhill, ....... By Ditto of Vicarage, by and attour his Rent, By Ditto of yearly Rent, for the Mailing of Brokstoun, By Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, .... By William Millar, for Meadow-Brow, of yearly Rent, APPENDIX 135 Sterling. L. sh. 44 18 19 3 0 17 3* 4 1 B. P. B. 64 18 | 59 11 10 1 2 L. 1409 19 8 4 6 8 0 1 10 4.6 8 0 1 10 T 'v 2 13 4 0 1 3 5 13 4 0 1 8 2 4 5 T V 0 0 10 2 10 0 . "4 : 0 2 5| : 0 2 6:0 0 6:0 0 0:0 0 0 : 0 0 6 0 4 6 0 4 6 0 4 9 o o 4 0 0 6 0 0 136 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS Brought over of PARCEL ?th, By Mary Wallace, of yearly Rent for the Lands of Littletoun, By Ditto of Vicarage, beside the Rent, .... By James Aitkin, of yearly Rent for Milside and Lochennill, By Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, . By John Stevenson, of yearly Rent, for Locherlip and Clay- faulds } ........ By John Orr, of yearly Rent, for the Lands of Hardgate, By Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, .... By Andrew Stevenson, for the Lands of Bankend, of yearly Rent, . . . . . . By Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, .... By John Hair, of yearly Rent, for the Lands of Manswray, By Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, .... By Matthew Aikin, of yearly Rent, for the Lands of Coalbog, By Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, .... By Allan Aikin, of yearly Rent, for the Lands of Lintwhite, Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, .... By James Caldwall, of yearly Rent, for the Lands of Hallhill, By Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, .... By William Aikin, of yearly Rent, for Part of the Lands of Auchincloigh, ....... Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, .... By John Clark, of yearly Rent, for Part of the said Lands, And by Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, By William Fleming, of yearly Rent, for Part of the Lands of Auchensales, ....... And by Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, By Robert Blair of yearly Rent, for the Lands of Upper Auchinsale, And by Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, By Archibald Arthur of yearly Rent, for another Part of Auchin- sales, ........ And by Ditto of Vicarage, beside his Rent, Sixty-eight Bolls and a Half of Victual, converted as by the foresaid Depositions, ...... Sixty-two Kain Fowls, converted, as by the foresaid Depositions, at five Pence per Piece, ..... And 12 Capons, converted, as by the foresaid Depositions, at eight Pence per Piece, ..... APPENDIX 137 Sterling. Meal. Bear Bot Kain Fo Capons. Days Se) L. sh d. B. P. ja 21 12 23 :0 4 37 0 12 2 10 0 0 :0 0 3 0 0 0 0 10 2 0 0 20 : 0 0 2 12 0 0 1 3 3 16 8 0 : 0 0 6 0 0 1 8 2h : 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 6 g 0 0 9 5 0 11 1 n 7 :0 0 0 0 6 3 6 8 4 : 0 0 4 0 4 0 1 9 5 0 1 1 2 1* 4 0 : 0 3 6 0 6 3 0 2 2 2- 8 - 12 1 5 : 0 0 4 0 4 7 1 10 0 15 4 6 8 0 Q 8 o 2 n 0 4 OA 8 f) 8 Q 13 0 . 0 0 6 107 16 «A 61 :0 7 62 12 34 38 l iA 1 5 10 0 8 0 138 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS Brought over of PARCEL 7th, And 34 Days Service, converted (as by the foresaid Depositions) at 10 Pence per Day, ..... Out of which to be deduced a proportional Part of seven Bolls of Parsonage-tiend, payable to the Minister of Kilbarchan, inde . . L. 1 17 0 And a proportional Part of the said 4 /. 6 s. 11 d. Sterl. of Vicarage, inde . . . . 1 16 10 And a proportional Part of the said School-master's Salary, . . . . . . 0 4 11^ Remains of free Rent, after the above Deductions, Which Parcel holding Taxtward of the Prince, as by Charter produced. By the Depositions of the said Messrs. Wood and Finlayson on the Value, they are depon'd upon to be worth 24 or 25 Years Purchase of the free Rent. Inde the above free Rent at 24 Years Purchase, . PARCEL 8th. BY Thomas Pollock of yearly Feu, for a Part of the five Merk Land, of old Extent, of Arthurlay, .... By James Airstori, of yearly Feu for the fifteen Shilling Land of Nether Arthurlay, By James Pollock, of yearly Feu for the Lands of Arthurlay and Wrays, and Hodgeglen, ...... The said Lands holding Blench of the Crown, by Depositions of the said Messrs. Wood and Finlayson, the Feus are depon'd upon to be worth 30 Years Purchase of the Feu-duty, inde And a Year's Purchase of the Rent of the Lands, which, by Depositions of James Pollock of A rthur- lay (and the 9th Witness on the second Act and Commission) is depon'd upon to be as follows, viz. The yearly Rent of the said James Pollock, his Lands of Arthurlay, to be . . . L. 15 2 6 And the yearly Rent of his Lands of Hodgeglen and Wrays, to be . . . . 11 13 4 APPENDIX 139 Sterling. L. sh. d. Sterling. L. sh. d. 147 11 1\% 1 8 4 a B. P. Bear Bolls. Kain Fowls. § Days Serv. Sterling. \ 148 19 I4f 3 18 9 T % 145 1 L. 3481 8 4 0 11 4 T % 0 12 6 1 10 10 2 14 8 T 8 2 - 82 1 8 140 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS Brought over of PARCEL 8th, L. 26 15 10 And by Thomas Pollock the 9th Witness and the 11th, that the said Lands of Arthur lay, possessed by Thomas Pollock, is of yearly Rent . <) 8 10 T 8 2 And by James Airston and Robert Maxwell, the 10th and 11th Witnesses, that the Lands of Nether Arthurlay, belonging to the said James Airston, is of yearly Rent . . . . 8 3 11^ hide total Value of this 8th Parcel, PARCEL ^th. BY the yearly Feu-duty, payable out of the Lands of Rivoch, a nine Shilling and six Penny Land, The said Lands of Rivoch hold Tax t ward of the Prince, as by Charter : By Depositions of Messrs. Wood and Finlayson, the Feu is deponed upon to be worth 80 Years Purchase of the Feu-duty, inde ....... And a Year's Rent of the Lands, which by John Pattison, Anna Pollock, and Henry Wilson the 1st, 2d and 3d Witnesses in the second Commission, is deponed upon to be 110 /. 2 s. 8 d. Scots, inde in Sterl. ...... Inde total Value of this 9th Parcel, . PARCEL 10M. Feu-duties of the Twenty Shilling Land of Ladymuir. BY James Clark, of yearly Feu-duty, for his Half of the said Lands of Ladymuir, ..... By Hugh Blair, of yearly Feu, for his other Half of the said Lands of Ladymuir, ...... APPENDIX 141 Sterling. L. sh. d. 0 13 4 Sterling. L. sh. d. ba B. P. Sterling. L. 82 1 8 44 8 8 126 10 4 20 0 0 9 3 6& 29 3 6 T \ r 2 15 2 15 6 T \ 5 11 1 T V 142 CUNNINGHAM OF CRAIGENDS Brought over of PARCEL 10th, The said Lands of Ladymuir, holding Taxtward of the Prince, by Depositions of the said Messrs. Wood and Finlayson, the Feu is depon'dupon,to be worth 30 Years Purchase of the Feu-duty, inde And a Year's Rent of the Feu-Lands, which, by the Depositions of James Clark, Hugh Blair, Ninian Parker, and John Kelso, the 4th, ,5th, 6th, and 7th Witnesses on the second Commission, is depon'd upon to be Inde total Value of this 10th Parcel, PARCEL lltk. The four Pound Land, of old Extent, of Craigends, Deniston. BY Alexander Cochran, of yearly Rent for Easter Craigends, Denistoun, ....... Ditto of Vicarage and Parsonage, beside his Rent, By John Laird, of yearly Rent for the Lands of Xether Denistoun, Ditto, attour his Rent of Vicarage and Parsonage, By Alexander Hatridge, of yearly Rent for a Part of the said Lands, And of yearly Vicarage, beside his Rent, By Walter Leitch, of yearly Rent for the Corn-mill of Denistoun and Mill-lands, ....... Ditto, of Parsonage and Vicarage attour his Rent, The said 18 Bolls and one Half of Victual, being conform to the foresaid Depositions, converted at 10 Merks Scots per Boll, inde And 12 Kain Fowls, converted at five Pence per Piece, inde And six Capons, converted at eight Pence per Piece, Rent subject to Teind .... The Heritor having no Right to the Teinds of these Lands, a 5th of the above Rent must be dedue'd for Teind, inde . . . . . L. 5 10 10i£ Remains . . L. 22 3 7f°- From which to be dedue'd, as the Schoolmaster's Salary, as per Receipt, . . . 0 2 3 T % Remains of free Stock, . . 22 1 4^ APPENDIX 143 Sterling. L. sh. d. 54 11 Sterling. L. sh. 11 2 9j\ 8 10^ 1 8 10^ 1 4 T C 1 1* 17 0 0 10 5 ()\ 0 5 0 0 4 0 27 14 6 T % 5 10 10} J 22 3 7ig 0 2 3^ 4 0 0 6 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 8 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 18J 0 0 12 6 0 Sterling L. 166 13 6 16 8 173 10 0 22 1 4 T octetp* — ♦ — LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. MEMBERS. Abernethy, James, 11 Prince of Wales Terrace, Kensington London, W. Adam, Robert, Brae-Moray, Gillsland Road, Edinburgh. Adam, Thomas, Hazelbank, Uddingston. Adams, William, Royal Bank of Scotland, St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh. Agnew, Alex., 1 1 Reform Street, Dundee. Aikman, Andrew, 27 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh. Airy, Osmund, The Laurels, Solihull, Birmingham. Aitken, Dr. A. P., 18 Dublin Street, Edinburgh. Alexander, William, M.D., Dundonald, Kilmarnock. Allan, A. G., Blackfriars Haugh, Elgin. Allan, George, Advocate, 5 6 Castle Street, Aberdeen. Allan, Rev. William, Manse of Mochrum, Wigtownshire. Allen, Lady Henrietta, Tusculum House, North Berwick. Anderson, Archibald, M.D., C.B., Sunny-Brae, Pitlochrie. Anderson, Archibald, 44 Connaught Square, London, W. Anderson, John, Jun., Atlantic Mills, Bridgeton, Glasgow. Anderson, William, C.A., 149 West George Street, Glasgow. Andrew, Thomas, Doune, Perthshire. Arnot, James, M.A., 57 Leamington Terrace, Edinburgh. Arrol, Archibald, 18 Blythswood Square, Glasgow. Arrol, William A., 1 1 Lynedoch Place, Glasgow. Baird, J. G. A., Wellwood, Muirkirk. Balfour, Right Hon. J. B., Q.C, 14 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh. 4 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Ballingall, Hugh, Provost, Dundee. Begg, Ferdinand Faithfully 10 North St. David Street, Edin- burgh. Beith, Donald, W.S., 43 Castle Street, Edinburgh. Bell, Beatson, Advocate, 2 Eglinton Crescent, Edinburgh. Bell, Joseph, F.R.C.S., 2 Melville Crescent, Edinburgh. Bell, Russell, Advocate, Kildalloig, Campbeltown. Beveridge, Alex., 9 James Place, Leith. Beveridge, Robert, 36 King Street, Aberdeen. Black, James Tait, Gogar Park, Corstorphine. Black, Rev. John S., 6 Oxford Terrace, Edinburgh. Blaikie, Walter B., 22 Heriot Row, Edinburgh. Blair, Patrick, 4 Ardross Terrace, Inverness. Bowie, J. H., Union Bank, Coatbridge. Boyd, Sir Thomas J., 41 Moray Place, Edinburgh. Brand, David, Advocate, 9 Albany Street, Edinburgh. Bremner, James, Greenigoe Manor, Wick. Brodie, John Clerk, C.B., D.K.S., 26 Moray Place, Edinburgh. Broun, A. M., W.S., 18 Morningside Place, Edinburgh. Broun-Morison, J. B., of Finderlie, The Old House, Harrow-on- the-Hill. Brown, Professor Alex. Crum, 8 Belgrave Crescent, Edinburgh. Brown, J. H., Dunipace, Larbert, Stirlingshire. Brown, Robert, Underwood Park, Paisley. Brown, William, 26 Princes Street, Edinburgh. Browning, Oscar, M.A., King's College, Cambridge. Brownlie, James R., 10 Brandon Place, West George Street, Glasgow. Bruce, Hon. R. Preston, Broom Hall, Dunfermline. Bryce, James, 35 Bryanston Square, London, W. Bryce, William Moir, 5 York Place, Edinburgh. Buchanan, T. D., M.D., 24 Westminster Terrace, West, Glasgow. Burnett, George, LL.D., Advocate, Lyon-King-of-Arms, 21 Walker Street, Edinburgh. Burns, George Stewart, D.D., 3 Westbourne Terrace, Glasgow. Burns, John William, Kilmahew, Cardross. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 5 Caldwell, James, Craigielea Place, Paisley. Campbell, Lord Colin, Argyll Lodge, Camden Hill, London, W. Campbell, James A., Stracathro, Brechin. Carne-Ross, Joseph, M.D., Shian Lodge, Penzance. Carrick, John, 6 Park Quadrant, Glasgow. Chalmers, Patrick H., of Avochie, 27 Albyn Place, Aberdeen. Chambers, R., 339 High Street, Edinburgh. Chiene, Professor, 26 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. Christie, Thomas Craig, of Bedlay, Chryston, Glasgow. Clark, G. Bennet, W.S., 4 York Place, Edinburgh. Clark, James, Advocate, 30 Castle Street, Edinburgh. Clark, James T., Crear Villa, Ferry Road, Edinburgh. Clark, Robert, 42 Hanover Street, Edinburgh. Clouston, T. S., M.D., Tipperlinn House, Morningside Place, Edinburgh. Cochran- Patrick, R. W., LL.D., of Woodside, Beith, Ayrshire. Cockburn-Hood, T. H., Walton Hall, Kelso. Coldstream, John P., W.S., 6 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh. Colley, Rev. Reginald, S.J., Stonyhurst College, Blackburn, Lancashire. Condell, Claude E., Summer Lodge, Trinity. Constable, Archibald, 1 Nelson Street, Edinburgh. Cowan, George, East Morningside House, Clinton Road, Edinburgh. Cowan, Hugh, St. Leonards, Ayr. Cowan, J. J., 38 West Register Street, Edinburgh. Cowan, John, W.S., 7 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh. Cowan, John, Beeslack, Midlothian. Cox, Edward, Lyndhurst, Dundee. Craik, James, W.S., 9 Eglinton Crescent, Edinburgh. Crawford, Donald, M.P., 18 Melville Street, Edinburgh. Crole, Gerard L., Advocate, 1 Royal Circus, Edinburgh. Cunningham, Rev. John, D.D., Principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews. Cunningham, Geo. Miller, C.E., 2 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh. Cunynghame, R. J. Blair, M.D., 6 W T alker Street, Edinburgh. Currie, James, 16 Bernard Street, Leith. 6 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Currie, Walter Thomson, Glendoick House, Glencarse, Perthshire. Cuthbert, Alex. A., 14 Newton Terrace, Glasgow. Dalgleish, John J., 8 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh. Dalhousie, The Earl of, Brechin Castle, Forfarshire. Dalrymple, Hon. Hew, Lochinch, Castle Kennedy, Wigtownshire. Davidson, Hugh, Braedale, Lanark. Davidson, Thomas, 339 High Street, Edinburgh. Davies, J. Mair, C.A., Sheiling, Pollokshields, Glasgow. Dexter, Henry Martin, Greystones, New Bedford, Mass. U.S.A. Dickson, Thomas, LL.D., Register House, Edinburgh. Dickson, Walter G. W., 3 Royal Circus, Edinburgh. Dickson, Wm. Traquair, W.S., 11 Hill Street, Edinburgh. Dixon, John H., Inveran, Poolewe by Dingwall. Doak, Rev. Andrew, M.A., Trinity Free Church, Aberdeen. Dodds, Rev. James, D.D., The Manse, Corstorphine. Dods, Colonel P., United Service Club, Edinburgh. Donaldson, James, LL.D., Principal, St. Andrews University. Donaldson, James, Sunnyside, Formby, Liverpool. Douglas, Hon. and Right Rev. A. G., D.D., Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney. Douglas, David, 15a Castle Street, Edinburgh. Dowden, Right Rev. John, D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh, Lynn House, Gillsland Road, Edinburgh. Duncan, J. Dalrymple, 211 Hope Street, Glasgow. Duncan, James Barker, W.S., 6 Hill Street, Edinburgh. Dundas, Ralph, C.S., 28 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh. Dunlop, Archibald, 13 Both well Street, Glasgow. Dunn, Robert Hunter, Belgian Consulate, Glasgow. Dunsmore, W., Advocate, 42 India Street, Edinburgh. Dunsmure, James, M.D., 53 Queen Street, Edinburgh. Easton, Walter, 125 Buchanan Street, Glasgow. Ewart, Prof. Cossar, 3 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh. Falconer, Alex., Mossbank, Glasgow. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 7 Faulds, A. Wilson, Knockbuckle, Beith, Ayrshire. Ferguson, Charles C, Bridge of Allan. Ferguson, James, 41 Manor Place, Edinburgh. Ferguson, John, Town Clerk, Linlithgow. Ferguson, William, Kinmundy, near Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire. Fergusson, T. M., Ayton House, Dowanhill Gardens, Glasgow. Findlay, J. Ritchie, 3 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh. Findlay, Rev. Win., The Manse, Saline, Fife. Fleming, D. Hay, 173 South Street, St. Andrews. Fleming, J. S., 16 Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh. Flint, Prof., D.D., LL.D., Johnstone Lodge, Craigmillar Park, Edinburgh. Forbes, Peter, 132 Hill Street, Garnethill, Glasgow. Forbes, William, Advocate, 17 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh. Forrest, James R. P., 26 North Nelson Street, Edinburgh. Foulis, James, M.D., 34 Heriot Row, Edinburgh. Fraser, A. Campbell, D.C.L., LL.D., 20 Chester Street, Edinburgh. Fraser, The Hon. Lord, 8 Moray Place, Edinburgh. Fraser, Patrick Neill, Rockville, Murrayfield. Fraser, W. N., S.S.C., 41 Albany Street, Edinburgh. Fraser-Tytler, Prof. James S., Woodhouselee, Rosslyn, N.B. Gaedeke, Dr. Arnold, Professor of History, Polytechnikum, 3 Liebigstrasse, Dresden. Gairdner, Charles Broom, Newton-Mearns, Glasgow. Galletly, Edwin G., 22 Albany Street, Edinburgh. Gardner, Alexander, 7 Gilmour Street, Paisley. Gartshore, Miss Murray, Ravelston, Blackhall, Edinburgh. Geikie, Archibald, Geological Survey, 28 Jermyn Street, London, S.W. Geikie, Prof. James, LL.D., 10 Bright Crescent, Edinburgh. Gemmell, James, 19 George iv. Bridge, Edinburgh. Gemmill, William, 150 Hope Street, Glasgow. Gibson, James T., LL.B., W.S., 28 St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh. Gillespie, G. R., Advocate, 5 Darnaway Street, Edinburgh. Gillies, Walter, M.A., The Academy, Perth. 8 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Gloag, W. E., Advocate, 6 Heriot Row, Edinburgh. Goldsmid, Edmund, F.S.A. Scot., Lufra House, Granton, Edin- burgh. Gordon, Charles, 24 Stafford Street, Edinburgh. Goudie, Gilbert, F.S.A. Scot., 39 Northumberland Street, Edin- burgh. Goudie, Robert, Commissary Clerk of Ayrshire, Ayr. Gourlay, Robert, Bank of Scotland, Glasgow. Gow, Leonard, Hayston, Kelvinside, Glasgow. Grahame, James, 101 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. Grant, James, 25 Tavistock Road, Westbourne Park, London, W. Grant, Robert, 107 Princes Street, Edinburgh. Grant, William G. L., Woodside, East Newport, Fife. Gray, George, Clerk of the Peace, Glasgow. Greenshields, J. B., Kerse, Lesmahagow. Greig, Andrew, 36 Belmont Gardens, Hillhead, Glasgow. Grub, Prof. George, LL.D., University, Aberdeen. Gunning, Robert Haliday, M.D., 30 Hazlitt Road, West Kensing- ton Park, London, W. Guthrie, Charles J., Advocate, 13 Royal Circus, Edinburgh. Guy, Robert, 120 West Regent Street, Glasgow. Halkett, Rev. Dunbar Stewart, Little Bookham, Surrey. Hall, David, Elmbank House, Kilmarnock. Hall en, Rev. A. W. Cornelius, Alloa. Hamilton, Sir Frederick W., K.C.B., Pitcorthie, Colinsburgh, Fife. Hamilton, Hubert, Advocate, 55 Manor Place, Edinburgh. Hamilton, The Lord, of Dalzell, Motherwell. Harrison, John, 36 North Bridge, Edinburgh. Hedderwick, A. W. H., 79 St. George's Place, Glasgow. Henderson, Joseph, 1 1 Blythswood Square, Glasgow. Henry, David, 2 Lockhart Place, St. Andrews, Fife. Herdman, Robert, R.S.A., St. Bernard's, 12 Bruntsfield Crescent, Edinburgh. Hill, William H., Barlanark, Shettleston, Glasgow. Hislop, Robert, Solicitor, Auchterarder. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 9 Honeyman, John, 140 Bath Street, Glasgow. Hunt, John, Fingarry, Milton of Campsie, Glasgow. Hunter, Charles, F.R.S., Plas Coch, Anglesea. Hunter- Weston, Colonel G., West Kilbride, Ayrshire. Hutchison, John, D.D., Afton Lodge, Bonnington. Hyslop, J. M., 22 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh. Imrie, Rev. T. Nairne, Dunfermline. Inglis, Right Hon. John, Lord Justice-General, 30 Abercrombv Place, Edinburgh. Irvine, Alex. Forbes, Advocate, Drum Castle, Aberdeenshire. Jameson, J. H., W.S., 12 George Square, Edinburgh. Jamieson, George Auldjo, C. A., 37 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh. Jamieson, J. Auldjo, W.S., 14 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh. Japp, William, Solicitor, Alyth. Johnston, David, 24 Huntly Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow. Johnston, George Harvey, 9 Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh. Johnston, George P., 33 George Street, Edinburgh. Johnston, T. Morton, Eskhill, Roslin. Johnston, Sir William, Kt., Kirkhill House, Gorebridge. Jonas, Alfred Charles, 4 St. James' Crescent, Swansea. Kemp, D. William, Ivy Lodge, Trinity, Edinburgh. Kennedy, David H. C, 27 St. Vincent Place, Glasgow. Kermack, John, W.S., 10 Athole Crescent, Edinburgh. Kinnear, The Hon. Lord, 2 Moray Place, Edinburgh. Kirkpatrick, Prof. John, LL.B., Advocate, 24 Alva Street, Edin- burgh. Kirkpatrick, Robert, 1 Queen Square, Strathbungo, Glasgow. Kitchin, Rev. F., M.A., 4 Rothesay Place, Edinburgh. Laidlaw, David, Jun., 6 Marlborough Terrace, Kelvinside, Glasgow. Lang, James, 9 Crown Gardens, Dowanhill, Glasgow. Law, James F., Seaview, Monifieth. Law, Thomas Graves, Signet Library, Edinburgh, Secretary. 10 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Lawrie, Professor S. S., Nairne Lodge, Duddingston. Leadbetter, Thomas, 122 George Street, Edinburgh. Lindsay, Thomas M., D.D., Free Church College, Glasgow. Lorimer, George, 2 Abbotsford Crescent, Edinburgh. Lorimer, Professor J., LL.D., 1 Bruntsfield Crescent, Edinburgh. Macadam, W. Ivison, 6 East Brighton Crescent, Portobello. Macandrew, Henry C, Aisthorpe, Midmills Road, Inverness. Macbrayne, David, Jun., 17 Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow. M f Call, James, F.S.A., 6 St. John's Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow. M'Candlish, John M., W.S., 27 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh. M'Cubbin, Wm. Fergus, Glendoon, Ayr. Macdonald, James, W.S., 7 Albany Street, Edinburgh. M'Dowall, William, 17 Cresswell Terrace, Dumfries. jVFEwen, W. C, W.S., 2 Rothesay Place, Edinburgh. Macfarlane, George L., Advocate, 14 Moray Place, Edinburgh. Macgeorge, B. B., 19 Woodside Crescent, Glasgow. M'Grigor, Alexander, 172 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. Macintyre, P. M., Advocate, 12 India Street, Edinburgh. Mackay, JEneas J. G., LL.D., 7 Albyn Place, Edinburgh. Mackay, Rev. G. S., M.A., Free Church Manse, Doune. Mackay, James R., 37 St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh. Mackay, John, 41 Hamilton Terrace, London, N.W. Mackay, Thomas A., 14 Henderson Row, Edinburgh. Mackay, William, Solicitor, Inverness. M'Kechnie, Dugald, Advocate, 60 Northumberland Street, Edin- burgh. Mackenzie, David J., Sheriff-Substitute, Lerwick, Shetland. Mackenzie, Thomas, M.A., Sheriff-Substitute, Ross. Mackinlay, David, 6 Great Western Terrace, Glasgow. Mackinnon, Professor, 14 Dalrymple Crescent, Edinburgh. Mackinnon, William, 1 1 5 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow^. Mackintosh, Charles Fraser, 5 Clarges Street, London, W. Maclagan, D. J., 7 James' Place, Leith. Maclagan, Professor Sir Douglas, 28 Heriot Row, Edinburgh. Maclagan, Robert Craig, M.D., 5 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 11 M'Laren, The Hon. Lord, 46 Moray Place, Edinburgh. Maclauchlan, John, Albert Institute, Dundee. Maclean, Andrew, Viewfield House, Partick, Glasgow. Maclean, William L., 31 Camperdown Place, Great Yarmouth. Macleod, Donald, D.D., 1 Woodlands Terrace, Glasgow. Macleod, Rev. Walter, 112 Thirlestane Road, Edinburgh. Macniven, John, 138 Princes Street, Edinburgh. Macphail, S. R., M.A., 77 Cannon Street, Liverpool. M'Phee, Donald, 4 Kirklee Road, Kelvinside, Glasgow. Macray, Rev. W T . D., Bodleian Library, Oxford. Main, David M., Doune, Perthshire. Main, W. D., 29 St. Vincent Place, Glasgow. Makellar, Rev. William, 8 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. Marshall, John, Caldergrove, Newton, Lanarkshire. Martin, John, W.S., 19 Chester Street, Edinburgh. Marwick, J. D., LL.D., Killermont House, Maryhill, Glasgow. Mason, Robert, 6 Albion Crescent, Dowanhill, Glasgow. Masson, Professor David, LL.D., 58 Great King Street, Edin- burgh. Maxwell, Alexander, 9 Viewforth Street, Dundee. Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, Bart, M.P., Monreith, Whauphill. Maxwell, W. J., Terraughtie, Dumfries. Millar, Alexander H., 2 Norman Terrace, Downfield, Dundee. Miller, P., 8 Bellevue Terrace, Edinburgh. Miller, William, S.S.C., 59 George Square, Edinburgh. Milligan, John, W.S., 10 Carlton Terrace, Edinburgh. Milne, A. & R., Union Street, Aberdeen. Milne, Thomas, M.D., 13 Mar Street, Alloa. Mitchell, Professor Alexander,. St. Andrews. Mitchell, Sir Arthur, K.C.B., M.D., LL.D., 34 Drummond Place, Edinburgh. Moffat, Alexander, Southbar, Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. Moffat, Alexander, Jun., M.A., Southbar, Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. Morice, Arthur D., Fonthill Road, Aberdeen. Morison, John, 11 Burnbank Gardens, Glasgow. Morrison, Hew, Abercorn Place, Portobello. 12 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Morton, Charles, W.S., 1 1 Palmerston Road, Edinburgh. Muir, James, 27 Huntly Gardens, Dowanhill, Glasgow. Muirhead, James, 5 Eton Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow. Muirhead, Professor, 2 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh. Murdoch, Rev. A. D., All Saints' Parsonage, Edinburgh. Murdoch, J. B., of Capelrig, Mearns, Renfrewshire. Murdoch, Thomas, Argentine Consul, Dundee. Murray, Rev. Allan F., M.A., Free Church Manse, Torphichen, Bathgate. Murray, James, 21 Balmoral Place, Aberdeen. Murray, T. G., W.S., 11 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh. Napier and Ettrick, Lord, Thirlestane, Selkirk. Ogilvy, Sir John, Bart., Baldovan House, Dundee. Oliver, James, Thornwood, Hawick. Omond, G. W. T, Advocate, 4 Royal Circus, Edinburgh. Paxton, George A., F. R.S.E., 95 Colmore Row, Birmingham. Paton, Henry, M.A., 15 Myrtle Terrace, Edinburgh. Patrick, David, 339 High Street, Edinburgh. Patten, James, 16 Lynedoch Place, Edinburgh. Paul, Rev. Robert, F.S.A. Scot., Dollar. Pillans, Hugh H., 12 Dryden Place, Edinburgh. Pollock, Hugh, 25 Carlton Place, Glasgow. Prentice, A. R., 18 Kilblain Street, Greenock. Pullar, Robert, Tayside, Perth. Purves, A. P., W.S., Esk Tower, Lasswade. Rampini, Charles, Advocate, Springfield House, Elgin. Ramsay, John, Kildalton, Port Ellen, Islay. Rankine, John, Advocate, 23 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh. Reichel, H. R., University College, Bangor, North Wales. Reid, Alexander George, Solicitor, Auchterarder. Reid, H. G., Stationery Office, Westminster, S.W. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 13 Reid, J. J., B.A., Advocate, 15 Belgrave Place, Edinburgh, Treasurer. Reid, John Alexander, Advocate, 2 Drummond Place, Edinburgh. Renwick, Robert, Depute Town Clerk, City Chambers, Glasgow. Richardson, Ralph, W.S., 10 Magdala Place, Edinburgh. Ritchie, David, Hopeville, Dowanhill Gardens, Glasgow. Ritchie, R. Peel, M.D., 1 Melville Crescent, Edinburgh. Robertson, Professor, 1 Park Terrace East, Glasgow. Robertson, D. Argyll, M.D., 18 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. Robertson, John, Elmslea, Dundee. Robson, William, Marchholm, Gillsland Road, Edinburgh. Rogers, Rev. Charles, D.D., LL.D., 6 Barnton Terrace, Edinburgh. Rogerson, John J., LL.B., Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh. Rosebery, The Earl of, LL.D., Dalmeny Park, Linlithgowshire. Ross, A. Mackenzie, Launceston, Kilmalcolm. Ross, T. S., Balgillo Terrace, Broughty Ferry. Ross, Rev. William, LL.D., 7 Grange Terrace, Edinburgh. Roy, William G., S.S.C., 16 Dublin Street, Edinburgh. Russell, John, 23 Dick Place, Edinburgh. Scott, John, Hawkhill, Greenock. Shanks, James Kennedy, 18 West Cumberland Street, Glasgow. Shaw, Rev. R. D., B.D., Burnlea, Hamilton. Shiell, John, 5 Bank Street, Dundee. Simpson, Prof. A. R., 52 Queen Street, Edinburgh. Sinclair, Alexander, Glasgow Herald Office, Glasgow. Skelton, John, Advocate, the Hermitage of Braid, Edinburgh. Skene, W. F., D.C.L., LL.D., 27 Inverleith Row, Edinburgh. Skinner, William, W.S., 35 George Square, Edinburgh. Small, W. J., Ellen Bank, Dundee. Smart, William, M.A., Nunholm, Dowanhill, Glasgow. Smith, Rev. G. Mure, 6 Clarendon Place, Stirling. Smith, J. Guthrie, Mugdock Castle, Strathblane, Milngavie. Smith, Rev. R. Nimmo, Manse of the First Charge, Haddington. Smith, Robert, 24 Meadowside, Dundee. Smith, Prof. Robertson, University Library, Cambridge. 14 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Smythe, David M., Methven Castle, Perth. Sprott, Rev. Dr., The Manse, North Berwick. Stair, Earl of, Oxenfoord Castle, Dalkeith. Stevenson, J. H., Advocate, 10 Albyn Place, Edinburgh. Stevenson, Rev. Robert, M.A., The Abbey, Dunfermline. Stevenson, T. G., 22 Frederick Street, Edinburgh. Stevenson, William, Towerbank, Lenzie, by Glasgow. Stewart, John, 8 South Lindsay Street, Dundee. Stewart, R. B. M., 11 Crown Terrace, Dowanhill, Glasgow. Stewart, R. K., Murdostoun Castle, Newmains, Lanarkshire. Stewart, Prof. T. Grainger, M.D., 19 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. Stirling, Major C. C. Graham, Craigbarnet, Haughhead of Campsie, Glasgow. Stoddart, James H., LL.D., Leddriegreen, Strathblane. Strathern, Robert, W.S., 12 South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh. Strathmore, Earl of, Glamis Castle, Glamis. Struthers, Rev. Dr., Prestonpans. Sturrock, James S., W.S., 110 George Street, Edinburgh. Sutherland, George M., Solicitor, Wick. Sutherland, James B., S.S.C., 10 Windsor Street, Edinburgh. Sutton, Henry S., 18 Yarburgh Street, Moss Side, Manchester. Swinton, A. Campbell, Kimmerghame, Duns. Tawse, John W., W.S., 49 Queen Street, Edinburgh. Taylor, Benjamin, 10 Derby Crescent, Kelvinside, Glasgow. Taylor, Rev. James, D.D., Rosemount, Murrayfield. Taylor, Rev. Malcolm C, D.D., Professor of Church History, 6 Greenhill Park, Edinburgh. Telford, Rev. W. H., Free Church Manse, Reston, Berwickshire. Tennant, Sir Charles, Bart., The Glen, Innerleithen. Thorns, George H. M., Advocate, 13 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. Thomson, John Comrie, Advocate, 24 Great King Street, Edinburgh. Thomson, John Henderson, Hightae, by Lockerbie. Thomson, John Maitland, Advocate, 10 Wemyss Place, Edinburgh. Thomson, Lockhart, S.S.C., 114 George Street, Edinburgh. Thorburn, Robert Macfie, Uddevalla, Sweden. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 15 Trail, John A., W.S., 8 Royal Circus, Edinburgh. Trayner, the Hon. Lord, 27 Moray Place, Edinburgh. Tuke, John Batty, M.D., 20 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. Turnbull, John, W.S., 49 George Square, Edinburgh. Underhill, Charles E., C.E., 8 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh. Ure, Alexander, Advocate, 26 Heriot Row, Edinburgh. Veitch, Professor, LL.D., 4 The University, Glasgow. Waddell, Alexander, Royal Bank, Calton, Glasgow. 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