336 Dumfries Treasurers' Accounts. 



to Mr Cuthbert Cunynghame for his fiall and 



pensioun ^^ 



Page ^^235 8s 8d.i'= 



fol. 4] 



Mair for skletting abone the Maxwells queir and 



naills yrto ;^i 4s 



to James Wilsone and Thomas Trenent — for 6 



dayes at the Willies^ ^^4 8s 



to the said James his sone and ye said Thomas 



Trenent at the said Willies, g dayes y£g 



to Jon and Michaell Jacksones for fetching the 



murderer peites ;^i 4s 



to sustene the witch in ward ;£i 12s 



in wyne quhen the money wes borrowit frome 



George Sharpe 15s 



In drinksilver at tua seuerall tymes to the 



workers at the mylne i6s 



for aik treis^ to be lintells to the mylne ^£^2 



for ane uther trie to be heid stocks and billyetis ;^i 12s 



to Jon Bek glasiner £33 6s 8d 



Mair to the major captane and serjant 



mair to the handshinant^ Jon Mckie 



to Danniell Kirkpatrik saidler £^7 



to Robert Smyth for goeing under the fell for 



mair lyme 8s 



to Henrie Logane for 8 dayes wynyng stanes... £2 13s 4d 

 In expenss at the lifting stone £2 8s 



ic If the payments given are correct, the total should be £231 

 8s 8(1. 



2 The willies were the island in the river and the west bank 

 of the Nith. 



3 Oak trees. 



4 This word is not in Jameson. Probably " ansinant " is 

 meant, which means ensign, from French enseigner — to instruct. 

 In the Ckjmpt of the Common Guid of Dumfries, 1612-13, occurs 

 the entry : "12 ellis of taffatie of the cord quhyte and yellow to 

 be ane handseinzie for serving his Majeste, £32" (MS. at Gen. 

 Register House); c.f., also 2 Hen. IV., ii., 4, 74: "Sir, ancienb 

 Pistol's below, and would speak with you;" and Othello v., 1, 51: 

 "This is Othello's ancient, as I take it." 



