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Thr Hospital of Inverness. 29
termes, and with the instructions mentioned in the former
mortification, with this alteration that the a rent was to be
employed for buying shoes and abulzements to the sd 8
poor persons in the winter and spring quarters, and meall in
the summer and hai-vest quarters, commencing winter, 1688.
And Bailie Dunbar in token of his receaving the principall
summ subscribed the mortification. The said Baillie
Dunbar granted ane heretable bond of corroboration relative
to the mortification fiist mentioned for the prinll sum of
2000 merks and a rent yrof since Whitsunday, 1689, being
the first terme after the Donor's decease, till Whitsunday,
1703, extending in all to the sum of 3600 merks, obliging
him to pay the said accumulat summ to Mr Hector Mackenzie
and the other minister who should succeed the said
Mr Gilbert Marshall or either of ym or either of their
successors, and yt at any Wliitsunday or Martinmas when
it should be found by John Barbour, aire male of the sd
James Barbour, and the said Bailie Dunbar or be their aires
male or their Tutors or Curarors, and by the sd Mr Gilbert
Marshall's successor or any two of ym by advice of the
Magistrates that the sd prinll summ could be got conveniently
settled on Land in heretage or wadset, with 500 merks
of penalty and a rent from W^hitsunday, 1703 years. To
be employed towards the uses in the Mortification upon the
requisition allways of 60 days. And he, the sd Bailie
Dunbar, for further security obliged him to infeft the sd
patrons for the use of the poor for his half-coble ^ salmond
ffishing, ffour aikers of the Dempster, for real warrandice of
prinll a rent and penalty, redeemable allways and under
reversion in manner mentioned in the said Heritable bond,
which is dated 27 April, 1703, regrt. in the Town books of
Invernes, 4 June, 1706.
" Lyke as by ane other heretable bond of the date and
regration of the former, relative to and in corroboration of
the mortification last mentioned {i.e., the second one) " the
said Bailie Dunbar stands obliged to pay to Mr Hector
Mackenzie and the successor of Mr Marshall, John Barbour,
Bailie, James Dunbar, younger, Alexr. Stewart, and James
Thomson, four of the elders, and their successors, as patrons,
for the use of the eight poor men a mentioned, the sum of
2000 merks, and that any Whitsunday or Martinmas that
it shall be found be the minister or ministers and elders for
^ The half-coble's fishing is entered in Treasurer Mackintosh's accounts
as worth ^{,'2000.