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change the Gate as I told you. I hope you planted the fire ^ 

 thick as many may chance to die. Did it take all the firs ? 

 Pray Water the New planted fruit trees in dry Weather as 

 also the new planted Artichokes. You 're in the right to sell 

 what you have in the Garden above what my Wife wants. 

 Let the Ashes that were cut in the Haining be cut for proper 

 Country uses such as I may want for farming business and 

 carried up to the Girnel.^ I did not promise Ch: Cokburns 

 Davidson's land. I cannot do it as Davidson had a Lease. I 

 must settle this when I come down, but in mean time I expect 

 Kinghorn to pay up his rents, and what is due for Davidson's 

 feu at this term. I have nothing to do with what is between 

 Yule and him. 



8*h May 1742. 



[The following Mem. is written on the back of the above 

 Letter by Mr. Yule.] 



The Oak Ash and Birch in this Wood with the exception of 

 several reserved Oaks was sold and Cut in 1796. 



(Signed) J. Y. 



XXVI 



30 Sept. 1742. Charles, — I have wrote several times to J. Dods to tell you 

 what occurred to me at the time, and upon Saturday last I 

 wrote a long letter to yourself. I hope you dont delay or 

 neglect forwarding such things as the season allows of being 

 done now. This ought to be the chief time of all the year for 

 field plantations. Ditching, gathering Seeds, Sneding and 

 many other necessary things which may all be gone about now 

 better than at any other season. If you trifle away this 

 Season and this weather you cannot do things so well when 

 the weather changes and at double expense. Don't lose a day 



^ * Fire ' is a slip for firs. ' Field without,' i.e. outside the fence enclosing 

 the firs. 



^ The girnel or granary on a barony to store the kain or corn rents of the 

 tenants. There are, in the Letters, few traces of the old feudal tenure. Note 

 that * Cokburns ' is written for Cokburn under the influence of ' Davidson's ' 

 following. 



