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Ihc Hospital of Ihverness. 269
THE HOSPITAL OF INVERNESS
DUNBAR'S HOSPITAL.
(By Captain DOUGLAS WIMBERLEY).
CHAPTER \TII.
Raining's School.—Provost John Hossack, 'rrcasuicr, 1731-1751.—Change
from Scots Money to Sterling in Hospital Account.s.— Increase in the
Hospital Stock.—His Charge and Discharge. —How the Hospital Stock
was invested at this time.—William Mackintosh, Senior's, Mortification.
The Laird and Lady Mackintosh's Mortification. — Mrs Anne Duff, Lady
Mackintosh's Jlortification.— Elspet Fowler's Mortification.—Provost
Hossack's Accounts.- -Report of Comniittec u|)on iheni approved.
Resolution of Kirk Session to grant a discount to Tenant of Fi'.hings.—
Delay and difficulty in getting payment of Laird and Lady Mackintosh's
Mortification.— Principal Sum paid and Presentation of Beneficiaries by
Anne, Lady Mackintosh.—A separate or particular Treasurer appointed
for Geo. Duncan's Mortification.— Provost Hossack's wish to resign office
of Treasurer in 1749, and Thomas Alver. appointed, but Provost Hossack
continued till 1752.—Anecdote about him.
TOWARDS the close of the Treasurership of Gilbert
Gordon, part of the Hospital began to be used for that
useful institution, Raining's School. A merchant in Norwich,
named John Raining, a Scotsman, left by will in 1722
^1000 to the General Assembl}- of the Church of Scotland
*' to plant a school in any part of North I'ritain where they
think it is most wanted." The General Assembly, however,
shortly afterwards, in 1724, handed over the bequest and
its administration, with consent of Mr Raining's executors,
to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in Scot-
land, which had then been in existence about twenty years
and took much interest in the Highlands and Islands.
The records of the Kirk Session show that on 20th
September, 1725, a letter from a Dr Alex. Dundas to the
above-mentioned Society, relative to the granting of the
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