38 THE GANNET. 



Sharp, his heires, and exrs. free of all charges whatsomever 

 incumbant to the delivery of the said Sollen-Geese, and the said 

 Charles Maitland binds him and his heires and excrs. to content 

 and pay to the said Sr. William Sharp and his foresaids, the said 

 sum of seventy-fyve pound sterling, the one half at the date of 

 their presents and the other half upon the twenty nynth day of 

 September next to come in this instant year 1678, with the sum 

 of ane hundred pounds Scots of failzie, to be payed by the partie 

 failziear to the party willing to observe the premises. In witness 

 yrof both parties have subscribed their presents with their hands 

 tyme and place aforesaid before these witnesses, John Robertson, 

 writer in Edr., and David Callender, writer hereof. 



'Charles Maitland is also to give to me in this season two 

 dozen good Sollen-Geese free.'" 



