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146 The Highland Monthly,
Obligation from Wm. Duff,
of Diple, dated 19th Jany.,
1721, to mortify 500 merks £>1)ZZ 6 8
Obligation by John Jackson,
to pay out of the estate of
the deceased Robt. Jack-
son to the Hospital 500
merks 333 6 8
A. Mackintosh's bond ... ;^I33 6 8
Annual rent thereon ... 23 6 8
;^24,732 9 2 ;^2974 1 5 2
It will be observed that the amount of the Hospital
property was now steadily increasing, and that the amount
of arrears of annual rents due was now comparatively small.
The accounts, however, were not kept distinct for the
various branches, in accordance with the Treasurer's instruc-
tions, nor were the upper stories of the Hospital occupied
by poor bedesmen. In Thomas Alves' accounts we find,
"To II months' rent of the Hospitall Upper Loft, till 7
June, 1721, ;" £11 and "To the Magistrates' obligation for
the Rent of the Upper Storie of the Hospitall, for a Hospi-
tall to the Regmt., pay. 7 June, 1722, ^^36." This regiment
was " a regiment of Fusaleers."—Kirk Session records, 20th
June, 1 72 1.
At the commencement, however, of Thomas Alves'
Treasurership, the Session had to authorise him to borrow
i^200 Scots, " for payment of the Hospital pensioners, since
there's no money delivered him by the late Hospital
Treasurer, and to give armual rent therefor from the term
of Marts, last, if he cannot have it other ways." His
predecessor had a balance due to him.
At this time the new Hospital pensioners were
appointed at meetings of the Kirk Session, and their
names, with the amount allotted to each, generally to be
paid quarterly, entered in the records. The usual allowance
was twenty pounds Scots yearly ; in some cases ten, in
-some as much as forty.