286 AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LAIRD 



Isobell M'Calla chambermaid 20 Scots . .1130 



Janet M'Cuillam, dairymaid 16 Scots . .168 



Margaret Anderson, a help to her . . .100 



Janet M'Guffack, washer, 12 Scots . . .100 



Andrew Jamieson, Gardiner . . . . 7 10 



92 10 



This is eleven hundred & ten punds Scots which is more 

 free money as many a Gentleman has to Live on & Maintain 

 their familie. 



Add, to Duncan Craufurd's salary for buying 



nolt 30 



To my factor Mr Lawrie 20 



142 o o; 



The servants, of course, received board; the cook 

 had as perquisite the ' shoreland skins,' whatever they 

 were ; and vails, or, as we now term them, ' tips,' to 

 servants bore a much larger proportion to wages than 

 they do at the present day, and extended to every grade 

 in the household. 



The tower where Sir Alexander and Lady Jean spent 

 their days together stands grey and roofless now on 

 the green eminence beside the broad lake. It was en- 

 nobled by the presence of royalty once ; for James IV., 

 that prince of adventure, lodged there on one of 

 the many pilgrimages which he undertook to the 

 neighbouring shrine of St Ninian at Whithorn. As in 

 many other instances, the deserted dwelling stands 

 upon a site far preferable to the modern mansion which 

 a later laird's lady persuaded her husband to build, ' as 



