In this poser, taken from the poor fund accounts of Abercorn kirk session, 1701 (National Records of Scotland, CH2/835/9 page3), we asked what the poor fund supported in addition to the poor.
Answer: The poor fund paid for repairs to the school window: To David Mather for Meason
for the school window one pund 13s~ 8d~ .
Transcription
Given out of Supplyes the tyme the min[iste]r was in
the north wh[i]ch was approven this day are
as followes viz To David Mather for Meason
for the school window one pund 13s~ 8d~ patrick
Borthwick 8s~ Janet Mothrie one pund George
Paul 10s~ James & Janet Borthwicks poor
schoolars Quarters one pund 4s~ Gavin
Simpson 12s~ To a poor stranger one pund
Patrick Borthwick 12s~ The 12 Feb[rua]ry to the sex
pentioners 4lib~ 5s~ To a poor stranger one
pund Patrick Cuninghame 12s~ Gavin Simp-
son 12s~ Jean Bennie 8s~ John Thomson 12s~
Bessie Tenant 12s~ Mathew Cuming half-
Quarter 6s~ James Gib 12s~ Thomas Irwin
half Quarter 6s~ patrick Borthwicks Coffine
Two pund & Margaret Muire 10s~ inde 18 [lib~] 14 [s~] 8 [d~]
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