VI. TAVERN BILLS. MR. DUNBAR Of Kincorth was a younger son of Sir William Dunbar of Durn, Baronet, and a brother of Anne Countess of Findlater and Seafield. He would be treated as an honoured guest. The money is Scots. 'Accompt Wm. Dunbar of Kincorth to Margaret Stewart, spouse to Wm. Brodie, merchant in Elgin. 22d Decer. 1699. Imprimis by ane subscribed oblige ment, By another obligement, . Janry. 1700. Item with ffaskin, Mr. Archbald Dunbar, and John Chalmer four 26 12 6 08 05 0 06 16 0 05 02 0 . 00 04 0 01 17 0 01 05 0 wards, 00 15 0 Item when he went at that tyme to the west, for his own, and his servant and horse, meat and drink, 02 00 0 Item for his horse therafter for corn Copy of a bill paid. in 1769 to Robert Gordon, Land lord of the "British Arms :" BRITISH ARMS, To MAGNUM BONUMS, ELGIN To 35 bottles Claret, bottles Champaign, . 476 Το The Royal Arms are slightly different in the original, which is a printed form, with the numbers and prices written. VII. FIELD SPORTS. HAWKING was long a favourite sport in the North. The Earl of Buchan appears to have replenished his falconry from the Gordonston stock. "To my honorabel and loving frinde "SIR ROBERT GORDON, geve this. "BAMFE the 10 May, 1619. SIR, I have wryten thir fewe lynes to deseir you to doe me the favor as to send me ane facon of this yeir, with this berer, and wharin I can doe you anny pleseur or service you sall find me ever redie to obay your imployments, so hoping you will grant me this my first sent, I tak my leive and rests your loving frind, to my pouer, BUCHANE." Having received a couple of hawks from the Earl of Seaforth, the Laird of Brodie asks his friend to get them trained. "To Mr. ARCHIBALD DUNBAR, "of Thundertone. "ffORRES 6th Aug. 1712. 66 SIR,-I am glade to hear that you are weell, and that you are nothing the worse of your fatigue att the |