Pullar Mortification 1811-1859 Minute Book - Nine Trades of Dundee

In the third place our said Trustees shall pay the several Legacies following –
To James Pullar, Baker in Dundee Son of John Pullar my Brother and the lawful issue
of his body two hundred pounds Sterling.
To David Pullar also son of the said John Pullar and the Issue of his body
One hundred pounds Sterling;
To Craigie Pullar Son of the deceased Charles Pullar my Brother and the
Issue of his body, One hundred pounds Sterling.
Which Legacies shall be payable at the firs term of Whitsunday or Martinmas
making six months after the death of the longest liver of me and the said Elizabeth
Crawfurd with interest from the said term of payment till paid. Declaring that in case of
the death of any of the aforesaid Legatees without Issue of his body before the death
of me and the said Elizabeth Crawfurd this Legacy shall lapse and not be exigible to
each of my Nephews and Nieces who may be alive at the death of the survivor of me
and the said Elizabeth Crawfurd (excepting the Children of Alexander Pullar my
Brother who are otherwise provided for and my Nephews particularly before
mentioned who are provided for by this deed) the sum of twenty five pounds Sterling
and that at the first term of Whitsunday or Martinmas after the death of the longest
liver of the said Elizabeth Crawfurd & me with the legal interest from the said term of
payment till paid to James Fyffe, Taylor in Dundee and Elizabeth Sellers his Spouse
and longest liver of them, in liferent for their liferent use allenarly and to Mary Fyffe
their Daughter and the lawful Issue of her body in fee the sum of £100 Sterling at the
first term of Whitsunday or Martinmas making six months after the death of the
longest liver of me and the said Elizabeth Crawfurd and failing the said Mary Fyffe by
death without Issue of her body before the foresaid term of payment or before the
death of the longest liver of the said James Fyffe and Elizabeth Sellars the fee of the
said Legacy shall fall and revert to my Trust Estate.
In the fourth place I appoint my said Trustees after my death to allow the Sect
of Dereans in Dundee to continue in possession of that flat of the tenement of land
situated in the Methodist or Mitchells Close for the free yearly rent to five pounds
Sterling exclusive of cess & Repairs so long as they profess the leading doctrines of
the Bereand which are briefly treated in the Encyclopaedia Perthensis and detailed in
the Works of the late Mr John Barklay
And lastly the remainder of the said Estates heritable and moveable hereby
conveyed shall be allowed to accumulate with the Interest to a Capital Stock of three
thousand pounds Sterling after which period the interest on the amount shall be
applied to discharge the following annuities Vizt:
To the Dundee Infirmary Ten pounds Sterling.
To the poor of the Nine Trades of Dundee Five Pounds Sterling.
To the Kirk Session of Dundee for behoof of the poor thereof five pounds
Sterling.
Which last annuity shall be given at the door of the Old Church on the first
Sunday of every year by the Deacon of the Baker Trade in Dundee and after
answering these annuities the One half of the yearly surplus shall be applied towards
maintaining and educating ten poor boys who must not be admitted under Six years.
And the other half of the Interest to be distributed among ten poor old men of
women not below sixty years of Age such Boys and Paupers of the name of Pullar
and particularly those who can prove their pedigree from John Pullar, Farmer in Mill
of Hauchmoor, my father, to be preferred and further that our said Trustees may be
encouraged to accept of the Trust hereby committed to them we declare that they
shall not by liable for neglect omissions or diligence of any kind or for the insolvency
of any person to whom they may lend the proceeds of this Trust Estate nor shall they
be liable singuli in solidum but each only for his own personal intromissions and they
shall be no farther liable for any factor they may appoint (which they are hereby
authorised to do) than that they shall by habit and repute responsible at the time of
entering upon their office.
As also that the said Trustees shall be at liberty and have full power on all
necessary occasions in the execution of this Trust to bind the heirs of me the said
James Pullar and all others concerned in this Settlement to the extent of their
respective shares thereof (the said Elizabeth Crawfurd alone excepted) in clauses of
absolute warrandice in favour of the Debtors or of purchasers of any part of the Trust
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