Notice for expenses for the banquet held for
Jonson
in Sept.
1618 in the
Town Treasurers'
Accounts
. (The banquet is further noted in Life Record 57, the
Edinburgh
Town Council Minutes .) The notice appears in
the accounts for 1617-1618 in a bound series of accounts for 1612-1623.
Eugene Giddens
[p. 597]
Item yer
aucht to be allowed to ye compter payit be him to
James
ainslie baillie for
expenssis Debursit vpone ane bancquett maid to Benjamin
Johnstoune conforme to ane act of counsell of ye dait ye [A
space is left deliberately blank here, presumably so that a date could have been
inserted in the future.] day of September 1618.
ij.c xxj.lib. vjs viijd
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David Laing (1858-9), 206-8
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