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7he Hospital of /iivcniess. 149
Laird of Dipple for their Burgher. They have therefore
Impowered Thomas Alves, your acquaintance, and our
present Hospitall Treasurer, to put you in remembrance of
the kind promise you mad, and wee perswad ourselves that
you will do something effectuall in it, which will ingage the
Inhabitants in tliis place to pray for your prosperity and
the prolongation of your life. This, in name and at the
appointment of the Session of Inverness, is signified unto
you by, Honble. and Dear Sir, yoxw most obliged and most
humble servant,
" Sic substr. Ror.KRT Baillie."
The abo\e reminder had the desired effect, for on 24th
January, 1721, " Thomas Alves, Hospitall Treasurer,
Reported th^ in consequence of the applications made to
the Laird of Dipple in the name of the Session, he received
a letter from him. dated the nineteenth day of Januar\'
one thousand se\-en hundred and twenty-one, the tenor of
which is as follows :
—
" Sir,— I recei\-ed \'ours, and am only to mortify five
hundred merks of the sume contained in Inches and AL-
Macbean's Bond, which I am to assign, and as for the
Ballance, which is one thousand merks, I am content to
take \-our Bond in common form, obligeing you and your
successors in office to pay the same against Martinmas one
thousand seven hundred and twenty-one years, Bearing
Literest'from Whitsunday last, since what I assign you to
does the same, upon your sending whereof I shall return
Inches and Air AIcBean's Bond with ane assignation thereto
as you demand. You need make no great scruple about
the term of payment, being I will use no diligence so soon
as that unless I be straitened myself I would have (if the
good Town incline) what mortification I make so constitute
that any poor friend of myne might have the benefite of it
before another at the sight of the Magistrates and Council,
which I expect will not be refused, otherwise I am not to
urge it.— I remain. Sir, your most humble servant,
" Sic substr. Will. Duff."
This proposal to assign Inches and Macbean's Bond
seems not to have been carried out. At the end of Thomas
Alves' accounts occurs— " Also Deleavred to sd. Thesr."
.e., his successor! " ane obligator Lre. from Wm. Duff of