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I04 The Highland Monthly.
g. Precept of poindino-, at instance of Hospital Treasurer,
against Wm. Robertson of Insches, upon several bonds.
(Meinorandinn.—These bonds commence with one of 1691,
of which the annual rent due was far more than the
principal).
10. Extract bond, be William Robertson of Insches and
others, to James Dunbar, Hospital Treasurer, for bond of
1000 merks.
" Mr Robert Baillie " [then minister of the Second
Charge], " to deliver the said papers to Bailie Dunbar, and
get his receipt." (Kirk Session minutes, 14th July, 1719,
pp. 291-296).
It was during the treasurership of Bailie James Dunbar
that Mr George Duncan, merchant in Inverness (and pro-
bably the same person as the Hospital treasurer from 1701
to 1 706), bequeathed the lands of Diriebught, by disposition
and mortification, dated 3rd March, 171 5, to the Kirk
Treasurer of Inverness and the remanent members of the
Kirk Session, and their respective successors in place and
office, but subject to their being liferented by' his wife, if
she survived him, which she did.
This property was not left to the Hospital or the poor
generally, though it fell under the administration of the
Hospital Treasurer and Kirk Session. The purposes for
which it was left were, " the one-half of the yearly rent
thereof for maintaining, supporting, and keeping in repair
both the Churches of the said Burgh of Inverness, and the
other half thereof for educating and paying the school-
master's fees of six poor boys at the school until they shall
attain the age of fourteen years complete, and also for main-
taining and upholding them in clothes, &c., as far as the
said half of the yearly rents shall extend."
But this bequest was made under the provisions, con-
ditions, &c., underwritten, viz.:— "That, in case the reparation
of the above churches shall not exhaust the half of the said
yearly rent for and at the year immediately preceding any
term of Martinmas, when the saids rents shall fall due, then,