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III

A FEW DESYRES too my Wyfe if it please God she
survive me, wch I pray she may Long doe it.

16th July '99

1.  I desyre the old chamber to be rebuilt and sklated. The tennants will bring thm home.  It will cost about 300lib Scotts.  The valnutt tree will spoil the house, so it must be cutt.  you will gett for it fra Leith people 40 or 50lib.

2.  Cause lead along ye ston dyk at parkhead what is not built.  Let it all be fyve quarters high.  The pryce of ye rood you will find in my new pocket book, and doe it as you can gett it done.  The feriton and other neighbours will lead ye stones fra ye wood as they have done before to ye rest.

3.  Iff I be surprised by death, bring home ye bairnes to my buriall and then Lett them return to ther masters.  Let them be kept but on night ; for I will have no share cloath, and non invited but the Gentlemen of this shyre and my neir friends and my honest neighbors, without any hand bell, and those that comes, Let them have ale and aquavita to the full, and claret and sack if there be any.  I desyre you to doe nothing for me, but what I wold do my self for you. ....1 see evry wise body does so.

FR. MASTERTONE.


1 Worn away in the original.


4.  Cause Jo. Sawers advertise all Alloway Toun ; Jo. Chryste to clackmanan ; a Lad to ye barony of Alloway, and a Lyne to Ja. Simpson for Sauchie people ; a Lad to Feriton and Kenet ; a Lad to Linmiln and ye tenants thrabout ; Long kerss will advertise Tillibody folk ; My sons must invite all ye place, mr. Turnbull, mr. Allan.
Give to Riche Hog, babees to evry poor, and two ss scots to evry on of or own poor, and I shall spend no more.
Give Jo. main 40 ss peece for ye grave and ringing ye kirkbell.
The mort-cloath and ye kirkbell pryces are known.
Cause ye bairns bring home wt thm blackcloath, kreps, and stokens and gloves.
As for ye land you may sett it, you may gett two chalder bear and a chalder oat meal, ane cow and ane horse grass and fodder in winter, and they may have ye use of ye horse in a throng.  They may have da. Horns house, our stable and byre.  The litle stable will serve you.  and they must lead home yor coals, and help to Lead dovats when need is to ye town houses.
Lastly.  Gett ane thousand mrks for feritown conform to ye last Tack, if the bargain doe not hold you know of.  Gods blissing be with you now and evermore.  Amen.  Farewell.

FR. MASTERTONE.


you know that Kathrens tocher is payd by the ferritown room.  And now lastly I desyre you to distribute amongst ye bairnes what you can purchase als equallie as you can, for they are all our own without any partialiti.  you know mary, christan, and nanie hes some thing left thm be others, and Kathrin is satisfied, but this and all other things I refer to yorself.  I know you will mynd the representative of yors,

FR. MASTERTONE.

13 Martch 1702.