| Description | Bundle 17, part 1.
Bonds, discharges and accounts, 16th - 18th centuries. Including:
Indenture between John Gordon, apothecary in Aberdeen, and Thomas Burnet, son of deceased Major William Burnet of Balfour, for 3 years, 4 December 1703.
Bundle 17, part 2.
Account of part of price of arms imposed upon the Earl Marischall's proper lands and for which he must compt, 1643.
Copy letter, unsigned, unaddressed, undated.
Mr Pelham's budget - 4s in the pound by land tax would produce 4 million and the malt tax already voted will produce £750,000, and the sinking fund another million or £1,200,000 while they could do with 2s in the pound next year, that this year's extraordinary expense was due to voting 17000 seamen whereas next year 10000 would do, along with reduction of troops in the Indies, and 'several other little savings'; Pelham's speech folowed by Sir John Barnard, Sir John Cotton, and Mr Pitt, the orator; debates in the Lords about commission by the King to the twelve judges in conjunction with Privy Council to determine all appeals relative to prizes from Court of Admiralty.
Designation by commissioners appointed by presbytery of Dumbarton of three acres and three roods of lands of Wester Kilpatrick, bounds specified, for pasture and foggageland for the minister of Wester Kilpatrick, 25 February 1650.
Antenuptual contract of marriage between Margaret Foulis, eldest daughter of George Fouls, master coiner to the King, one of the bailies of Edinburgh, and Gilbert Kirkwood, goldsmith, burgess of Edinburgh, 1 January 1619. |