Transcription of lines 1 – 10

  1. I John Blain principal Commissary of the Commissariot

  2. and Diocess of the Isles By the tenor hereof (after due warning

  3. made by the public form of Edict openly as effeirs ) Ratify Ap-

  4. prove and Confirm this present Testament Dative and

  5. Inventory in So far as the same is leilly and truly made and

  6. given up and give and Committ full power of Intromission

  7. with the Debts and sums of money abovewritten to the said John

  8. Hamilton Tenant in Glenshant lawfull brother German and

  9. Mary Janet Jean Margaret Elisabeth Anne and Geills Hamil-

  10. tons lawfull sisters German and Executors Dative qua nearest of

Transcription of lines 11 – 18

  1. Kin Decerned to the said Defunct their brother And if need be to

  2. call Charge and pursue therefor as accord of the Law Because

  3. Henrie Bannatyne shoemaker in the Cladoch of Arran has

  4. become Cautioner for making the said sums forthcoming to all

  5. partys having Interest as the Law directs In witness whereof

  6. these presents are subscrived by me and my Clerk of Court at

  7. Rothesay the fourth day of July one thousand seven hundred and

  8. sixty three years John Blain Inventary

Crown copyright, National Records of Scotland, CC12/3/6, p18