262 TRANSACTIONS. 
4, The Town having thought fit to relinquish the horse miln 
which cost the Town great Expenses in Anno 1686, and to 
build a Miln beyond the Water in Anno 1705 or 1706), 
several sums were borrowed on that head, to which I was 
not witness, Mr Thomas Rome being then Provost. 
Account of the Town’s Debis paid from Michaelmas, 1706, to 
Michaelmas, 1708. 
To the Trades to help to build the Meal Mercat conform to 
Act of yl. Community ... ae 3 oe 2 
Spent by B. Barclay £100, and Tone Neilson of Chapel £100, 
abt. Margt. Ramsay’s Inditement, and £200 given her- 
self when she went out of the Kingdom, and £200 as the 
Expences of her Tryal and incident Charges 
All this Tryal being before the Magistrates as Tatoos We 
Expence was an peculate and imposition on the Burgh’s 
Revenue. 
Sept., 1707.—Paid to Barncleugh Maxwell of the Arrears of 
the 100 merks yearly which John Herries, called Butt, 
should have paid him and relieved the Town, and which 
Kelton, as then Provost, and now his heirs, should make 
good to the Town a 
To Dr Geo. Archbald 1000 mer aa: na a year’s @ een pomoned 
by Provost Rome towards building the Mill 
To William Rae in Lintonside another 1000 mks. and a year’s @ 
rent for the Mill ... 
Bought by Coliestoun Beal Bieter aod i! Acres of Ground 
between the Dove-Cote Croft and Castledykes, being a 
continual bone of contention between him and the Town, 
they daily poinding one another’s Cattle, and more especi- 
ally on this Motive that Netherwood had a Charter bound- 
ing said 4 Acres of Land with the Water of Nith, and 
having raised a Breve of Perambulation before the Sheriff, 
by which he designed to have carried away the greatest 
part of the Dock ; but his perambulation being advocate 
and made litigious, I forced Netherwood to sell the 4 Acres 
of Land, whereby the Dock and the same are now worth 
yearly £240 Scots, and for which 4 Acres of Ground dis- 
poned to the Town I paid him Eleven Hundred Merks 
To Gavin Carlyle for an road thro’ his park in prosperity to the 
Town’s Mill on the other side of the Water.. é ‘a 
To John Gilchrist (now Baillie) the balance of his Msnenton 
Accounts 
To Mr M‘Naught £44 10s as 2 years @ ale = 600 a ead 
borrowed for the Mill at Whitsunday, 1705... 
To James Gordon and Janet Real, spouses, £168 6s, as 2 ORs 
a rent of 2000 mks., and £45 10s as 2 years a rent of 600 
mks., both borrowed for the Mill at Lammas, 1705, the @ 
rent being paid to Lammas, 1707 ; both is ... 
Mks. 
900 0 
1100 0 
100 0 
400 0 
66 10 
320 10 
