300 Dumfries Treasurers' Accounts. 



fra Jon Craik for the mylnes^ 227 merks 6s 8d 



in my hands as taksman of the greit cus- 



tome for 3 qrters 982 merks 6s 8d 



fra James Newall for the impost of 3 qrters 900 merks 



fra the said James for the mylnes 3 qrters 750 merks 



Item the tounes rentall £^3^ 



My charge ;^246o 13s 4d. 



Unlawes^ ffra Jon Jaksone 2 dollores at 58s ... £^ i6s 



ffra Stephane Hunter ;^6 13s 4d 



ffra Adam Andersone, Bessie Heslop, Margarat 



tate, Margrat Gordoun and Janet Andersone ;^5 16s 



ffra George Rig for Jon Mcmurdie £2 i8s 



ffra Andro McCornok and his spous ;^5 



ffra Robert Russell £3 6s 8d 



ffra Thomas Sharpe and James Wallace ;^5 6s 8d 



ffra Thomas Maxwell £2 i6s 



My haill charge is ;^2498 6s 8d. 



poundlands from which burghs were not excluded. It was first 

 imposed in 1625 to pay the late King's debts and the coronation 

 expenses of his successor, and was reimposed in 1633 (Acts, Scot. 

 Pari., v.). Or it may have related to the impost on foreign wine 

 which was levied in 1629 {E.F.C, iii., 2nd ser., 395), and which till 

 1634 was in the hands of the Marquis of Hamilton, and brought in 

 over £40,000 (B.P.C, v., 2nd ser., 305). But inasmuch as this 

 impost is included amongst the Treasurer's receipts, and there is 

 no mention of the impost so collected being paid to the Crown, it 

 is possible that the impost may refer to the permission granted to 

 the Burgh to levy a scale of lotts at the Brig to pay for its repara- 

 tion in 1621-2. On 17th September. 1634, the Town Council suc- 

 cessfully petitioned the Privy Council for a further seven years' 

 extension of the right to levy a scale of duties, which had been 

 granted in 1609, 1617, and 1627 (R.F.C. 2nd series, v., 367). The 

 scale of dues is given in the Records of the Convention of Royal 

 Burghs, i., 388. It differs from the Bridge dues of later times as 

 given in M'Dowall (app. K), but doubtless formed the basis of the 

 charges established by the litigation of 1866. 



3 The burgh at this date possessed two mills, one at the Mill- 

 hole, the other at the end of the Old Bridge, known as the Sand- 

 beds Mill. 



'^ Fines imposed by the Burgh Court, 



