The family of Burnett of Leys, with collateral - Electric Scotland

262 THE FAMILY OF BURNETT OF LEYS.
that is to say, to the four waults under the school of Banchorie built be me, to
each wault or house or chamber of the saids four, nyne bolls victuall sufficient
oatmeall yearlie out of my girnell of Leyis, to be payed be me, my airis male and
successouris whatsomever for the sustentation of ane old persone and a young
body to attend them in every one of the four waults, hous or chamber under the
said school ; and it is expresslie provydit be thir presents that the young persones
attending the old as said is goe a part of the day, for sex houres at least, either to
the man's school, if males or boyes, or to the woman's school, being females and
maids, to be instructed and educat, and the rest of the day and all the night tyme
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to waite upon the old persones If ; the old be men, th
to attend them, and if the old persones be women, that they
they haue males or boyes
haue famels or maids
to attend them, and in caise the old faill in hauing their attenders, or in holding
them the space of sex houres (as said is) at least at the scooles, as befor, then,
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caise, whosoeuer faillis, to want thrie of their nyn bollis meill abow
mentionat, for suffering them to neglect their education, and learning which I
haue ordeened to be giuen them, gratis, or for nought, onpaying any thing therfor
to the masters of the mans scool, or to the mistresse of the womans scool;
Furthermore, becaus I, the said Sir Thomas, as air to my said vnquhill Father,
am bound by ane band of mortification, as for the anuall rent of two hunderth
merkis, Scottis money, dotted by my said vnquhill Father, and of one hunderth
merkis, money forsaid, dotted and mortified be vnquhill Mr. Thomas Burnet,
portioner of Curmoir, to giue yeerly, to the number of tuelve poore folkes, in the
said parachen of Banchory, as follows, viz., to sex poore, whether men or women,
for my vnquhill father, sex bollis oate meill yeerly, and other thrie, thrie suitis of
clothes yeerly, and to other thrie poore, for the said vnquhill Mr. Thomas Burnet,
thrie bollis of meill forsaid yeerly : For impliment herof, I, for love and charity,
and for their better support, I, the said Sir Thomas Burnet of Leyis, binds and
obledges me and my forsaidis, to giue to euery on of the saids poore folkes
yeerly (being depauperat and wanting meanes to Hue, and being old indwellers in
the said Parochen of Banchory, at the least for the space of seaven yeers, and
being of honest reputation and good fame, and louers of the trueth, and of
Christian behauiour) as followes, viz. : Ane boll meill yeerly to every one of the
three which befor gott the cloathes, and that together with the saidis cloathes,
and to the other nyne that gott the meall befor, nyne suites of cloathes, together
also with ther saids nyne bolls meall, and, moreover, to every one of said twelve
poor eight, four pounds Scots money yearlie to help them to buy shoes or other
necessares, or half boll meall foresaid yearlie to every one of them instead of the
saids four pounds, because moneyis cannot alwayes be readily gotten, and all to
be payd out of the garner of Leyis, and be the laird of Leyis for the tyme,