Transcribing Inventories, Wills & Testaments

[LesleyB]

Hi Alan
Looks like you've done pretty well so far. At work just now, but will look at the document and your transcription later and get back to you with any bits I can add.

Best wishes
Lesley

[LesleyB]

Hi Alan

I'm afriad I've not been able to make much more out than you have already so far. It is not the neatest of hands - a bit all over the place.... I'm not 100% sure of any of these additions, they are just suggestions.

PAGE 1

(Para 1)

1. THIS Inventarie & Testament Dative of the giude[s]
2. geire & debtis of umquhile William Foules in Cambo
3. within the parochine of Kingsbarnes & Kingdome
4. of Fyffe the tyme of his deceis quha deceissit
5. in the moneth of august 1645 yeires ffaithfullie
6. maid & gevin up be William Foules in Cambo
7. faither to the s[aid]d defunct in name of ...........him as
8. ......................................................... bairnes .............
9. where............................. the s[ai]d defunct and ...........
10. decernit to him be decreit of my lord Comisshr
11. of ..................... of the dait the ~~~ Day of ~~~ 1648

(Para 2)

1. Item....................... xxx oxene pryce of the peice
2. xxxiij £ vj s. & 8 d. inde jaj £. Item five ky pryce of the
3. peice xxvj £ xiij s. 4 d. inde j C* xxxiij £ vj s. 8d.
4.Item of ..............totil.......est.............pryce of ........
5.lxxxxiiij £ vj b 8d item of for
6. ........ pryce of the .peice. lxvi £. xiij s. 4d. Inde vi
7. ...........by ............ the ground...
8. ..............................lxxxiiij ...
9. beare................................
10. bollis beare pryce of the boll with the fodder v £ inde
11. jaj ij C lxxx £ item ...Item......of peis.....
12. ...
13. of the boll with the fodder iiij £. iij s. 4d inde ......
14. ....... in .... .....the......yeire ........
15. .....
16. pryce of the boll with the fodder ......inde
17. £ Item ** £ inde iij C £ Item ...................................
18. pryce of the ..........................Item the
19. ....domeceile .....the abulziementis of his bodie &....
20. .... geare........ij C £

PAGE 2

1. his ferme The s[ai]d yeire 1645 yeir- .........beare pryce
2. of the boll iiij £ xiij s.4d ...................
3. f ferme ...........yeire
4. iij £ xiij s. 4d inde iij (*) xxxviij £ vj s 8d...................
5. ..................

(Para 9)

1. This p[rese]nt inventorie ....befor...........
2. the...........upon the xxviij of July
3. <Juinj> 1648 yeires Wm. Foules faither....... [th]e defunct
4. of the.................M[aste]r
5. Lyall of Boghallis.......................the said............
6. ............................

Sorry I was not able to help more with this - this is a fair bit earlier that most documents I've dealt with so far, and the hand does not help!
Best wishes
Lesley

[Fife49er]

Hi Lesley

Apologies for not replying sooner - life in the real world has been unbelievably hectic recently!

Thanks for your contributions, which have been duly added to the transcription. I agree, it's a difficult hand. I sometimes leave it for a bit, then when I go back for another look I find I have to "train" my eye back into it.

Ah well, back to the coalface....

Regards

Alan

[Liz Turner]

Hi

but he also left 6 properties to be disposed of. I take that there is no way to find how much was realised in the disposal of these properties?

There should be a way to follow up land or houses through the sasines. These are held at NAS, and there are plans to put the abridgements online. Most of the abridgements are digitised already, and can be looked at on the PCs at NAS, but I don't know when they are due to be made public. Don't think this would tell you the amounts that the properties realised though....

Best wishes
Lesley

Lesley/Alan

As a small aside here, back in the late 1980s I worked at the University of Paisley, in a small unit called the Land Value Information Unit. At that time we purchased sasine current abridgements of all the Scottish counties. We got the information from extracts produced by the Keeper's office. It gave names of buyer and seller, and exact location - often including old measurements of rods and perches (!!) - and also the amount paid by the purchaser. We put this information into a computer database which we then sold to the likes of builders, surveyors, local authorities etc.

At that time we were obviously working on current data which was being produced contemporaneously by the Keeper's office, so I'd think that they would be well able to spot an opportunity to raise more income by doing the same for historical data.

Liz