Part 29

Decr. 30th. 4 bottles small clarit 0 6 0

1734.

Janr. 1st. 12 bottles strong clarit 1 4 0

do. 3 bottles ffrantinak 1 6 0

do. 3 bottles shirry 0 5 6

do. 1 bottle more brandy 0 1 6

Janr. 7th. 18 double flint glasses

do. 1 £ double refined shugar

Janr. 8th. 4 dozn. strong clarit to the lodgeing 4 16 0

do. 6 bottles ffrantinak do. 0 12 0

do. 6 bottles shirry do. 0 11 0

do. 6 more double flint glasses to ye lodgeing

do. 12 bottles strong clarit sent out to the burying place 1 4 0

do. 12 bottles more strong clarit at night to the lodgeing 1 4 0

Janr. 9th. 4 wine glasses returned from Dunscore

Janr. 12th. 2 bottles strong clarit to the lodgeing 0 4 0

do. 10 bottles strong clarit wt Carriel & more Gentelmen 1 8 0

Janr. 14th. 2 bottles clarit wt Carriel 0 4 8

8 dozn. empty bottles returned

The Wines amounts to 14 5 5

The Entertainments to 6 10 0

1734. ACCOMPT. OF HORSSES.

Janr. 9th. 2 horses of Lord Stormonds, 2 nights' hay, oats, & beans £0 5 0

do. 2 horses 2 nights, hay, oats, & beans, Sr Thomas Kirkpatrk 0 5 0

do. the smith for Sr Thomas' horsses 0 2 0

Pyd. to Charles Herisse, smith, for iron work to the Hearse 0 5 6

Mr Gilbert's horsses 1 4 6

Grim legend clings around the account of Lag's last illness and his funeral. "During the latter part of his life Sir Robert had taken up his abode in his town-lodging in Dumfries. It was an ancient pile of building of singular construction, facing the principal part of the High Street of the town, known as the 'Plainstones.' This old house was called the 'Turnpike,' from the spiral staircase, a characteristic of it, as of many of the old Edinburgh houses; it was situated at the head of what was called the Turnpike Close, and little more than two hundred yards from the Nith. The best known of the many legends regarding Lag is this: that when he came near his end, and was sorely tormented with gout, he had relays of servants posted so as to hand up from one to another a succession of buckets of cold water from the Nith, that he might cool his burning limbs--but the moment his feet were inserted into the water it began to fizz and boil.