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98 The Hif^Idand Monihh.
THE HOSPITAL OF INVERNESS
AND
DUNBAR'S HOSPITAL.
(By Captain DOUGLAS WIMBERLEY).
CHAPTER V.
Lower Room in Hospital used as a Grammar School.—Petition of Laying;
Schoolmaster for Lodgings in the Hospital. —Petition Granted.— Laying'.s
Claim for Repayment of Outlay on his Chambers.—Dispute as to Riglit
to Appoint New Schoolmaster.— Session Appoint Man previously
appointed by Magistrates and Council.—Claim by Interim Schoolmaster.
—James Dunbar, Treasurer, 1712-1719.—Duties of Hospital Treasurer
recorded.—Zeal of New Treasurer.—His further Protest.—Protest well
founded.— Patrons chosen by Session to nominate Eight Poor Persons
under Provost Dunbar's Second Mortification.—Inventory of Papers
relative to Provost Dunbar's Two Mortifications made in 1719.—Bequest
of Lands of Diriebught to Kirk-Session.—Purposes of this Trust.
Former Owners of these Lands.— Earlier Resolution of Kirk-Session to
invest part of Hospital Stock in " Soiled" Land.—Purchase thereof by Mr
George Duncan.—Tack of said lands to Mackay of Scourie.
'"T^HE room, however, at the south end of the lower
X floor must have been used as a Grammar School, as
directed ; for we find the following entry in the Session
Records on 24th January, 17 10:
The sd day Mr John Laying, Master of the Grammar SchooU in Inver-
ness, gave in a Petition craveing that the Session (as Patrons of the Hospitall)
would be pleased to allowe and grant him libertie to possess the Chamber
above the school with the closet thereto belonging, both being fire rooms, in
the south end of the Hospitall, to the end he might better attend his school
and wait upon the Librarie ; the Session, taking the same into consideration,
and seeing that none of the hospitall poor did possess the same and being
vacant, did grant the Petitioner's desire, and hei-eby allovvs the said Mr John
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to possess the same during the vacancie and their pleasure.
It may be noted in passing that, at the same meeting,
it was " ordered that James Thomson, Hospitall Thesaurer,
repair all the windows of the Hospitall with the first con-
venience."
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