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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...of which he had not received, or did not possess the particulars. Thus-- The compt of the yron maid in crookis and windowis, that come frome Leith, extending to auchten stainis and sex poundis. and ten restis of the yron being ane hundreth stein and two stains, four seoir thrie stainis and ten pound--this 19th of Janii 1641. Iron is not the only commodity brought from Leith. It is singular enough that the Morayshire laird should have had to send to the same quarter--between two and three hundred miles off--for six score bolls of lime. The laird occasionally stops and goes back upon the whole preceding expenditure; and its contemplation generally seems in some measure to alarm him. Thus, --Summa of the money above wreatten is 740. Item, the victuall extendit to thrie seoir bollis, at ten merkis the boll, is four hundreth poundis. Summa alevin hundreth and fourtie poundis; and with the formar compt maid in October 1643, is sewin thousand three seoir pound, and this by and attour my cartis, the expenses of my work horsis, yron crookis and leid, and my smith his comptis. Item to the wrightis--twa bollis ane peck meall, and for their squaring the gestis and sawin. The account begins on 4th September 1640, and ends on 13th June 1653. The sum-total is 15,266 Scots, amounting to 1,221, 3s. 4d., sterling--no contemptible sum for a Morayshire laird to pay for his house in the middle of the seventeenth century. The owner of this edifice was the representative of the old territorial family of Innes of that Ilk, occurring in charters of the twelfth century. It ramified into various worshipful north country families of the name of Innes, and made repeated alliances with other neighbouring houses. The mother of Duncan Forbes, the celebra...

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