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Another kind of payment found in
Scottish records is a bounty or "bounteth". Bounties include payments made or promised to new domestic servants when they were hired, made in addition to their yearly fees. Unpaid servant's bounties are frequently recorded as debts in wills. Notionally, such bounties
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include many gratuities given to servants, especially to those who brought food gifts. However, the only rewards from the king's purse recorded as "drinksilver" were made to the servants of his tailor and shoe maker in March 1540 who delivered goods to him at
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were forbidden in 1597 from requesting drinksilver, but could accept it when offered by the clients or parties. The amount of drinksilver to be given to the "man" or under-clerk working for the town clerk of
Glasgow by those requesting copies of
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have numerous references to gifts of money described as "drinksilver". The money was given to construction workers, artillery-men, tailors, and other makers. The gifts were made during royal visits or at the completion of a phase of work.
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was regulated from 1640. Plague-cleansers working in
Stirling in January 1646 charged for disinfecting pairs of plaids and other textiles, at rates fixed by the burgh council "and no further to be taken, nor yet any drink silver".
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in
September 1491 drinkilver at the "pending" of three stone vaults. The completion of arched vaulting was a significant milestone in a construction project. In November 1497 he gave masons at Linlithgow a tip of 9 shillings.
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on 27 April 1588, he gave the
English commanding officers of the garrison a gift of 100 gold crowns and to the porters (officers of lesser rank) 40 crowns described as drinksilver. In Denmark in 1590, James VI gave 12
151:. Gifts were made to junior craftsmen or apprentices, some of whom were called "childer". The childer of a carpenter were given drinksilver in 1598 when they fitted out a nursery for
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may have been the cash equivalent of shoes and linen for aprons and formed part of a contract between employer and servant. Such bounty payments were akin to
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in the 1620s were given drinksilver at the laying of the foundations, the start of work on the first stairwell or turnpike, and the completing of an
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27:, a sum of money suitable for buying drinks and celebrating. Records of payments give insights into labour, service, and patronage.
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payments made to royal servants. Master masons received bounty payments, including John
Burnhill, who had worked on the tower of
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Lawyers's clerks received drinksilver after consultations or on completion of drafting work. Junior clerical workers at the
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observed that the customs of gift giving and gratuities differed "contrair the fashion" in other countries.
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Diplomatic
Intelligence on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark during the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James VI
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who brought them notice of a gift of wine, but they refused the money saying they would lose their jobs.
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or "ledgement" around the building. The masons and barrowmen on the project also received drinksilver on
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gave soldiers commanded by James
Cunningham 20 shillings in drinksilver for confiscating the goods of
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Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's
English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts',
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as drinksilver to a man who brought a gift of horses from his soon-to-be brother-in-law, the
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Drinksilver gifts were also recorded in the household books of aristocrats. In July 1575
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In September 1561 drinksilver was given to the tailor "boys" who had worked making
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received drinksilver. Clerks and officers issuing royal charters under the
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given to two blacksmiths Alastair and Andrew Smith and their workers. The
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for these payments for drinks. An account for building a bridge over the
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gave 3 shillings to the "boys" (junior craftsmen) who worked for a
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Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh, 1589-1603
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in drinksilver when he was making pistols for her husband the
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and blacksmith in Edinburgh supplying arms to her husband
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Extracts from the Records of the Royal Burgh of Stirling
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Selections from the Family Papers Preserved at Caldwell
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Transactions of the Architectural Institute of Scotland
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gave or sent drinksilver to tailors in the workshop of
304:'Drinksilver', Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
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A Kindly Place? Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
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and her departing French escorts. In November 1569,
635:'Bounteth', Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
625:, Camden Fifth Series, 49 (London, 2016), p. 199.
598:Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow
546:, 'Who was the architect of Heriot's Hospital?',
660:Women, Credit, and Debt in Early Modern Scotland
401:Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, 1566-1574
388:Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, 1566-1574
47:Building accounts written in Latin use the word
476:Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, X
463:(Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1927), p. 348.
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675:(Tuckwell: East Linton, 1999), pp. 36, 227.
531:HMC, 14th Report, Part 3, Duke of Roxburghe
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649:(Tuckwell: East Linton, 2002), pp. 125-7.
352:, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1884), pp. liii, 79.
377:, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1916), pp. 66, 76.
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128:gave drinksilver to the workers making
550:, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1852), pp. 13-40.
447:, vol. 6 (Philadelphia, 1877), p. 277.
588:, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1815), pp. 54-5.
418:Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland
375:Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland
319:The Scottish Mason and the Mason Word
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575:, vol. 23 (Edinburgh, 1908), p. 289.
420:, vol. 13 (Edinburgh, 1978), p. 203.
403:, vol. 12 (Edinburgh, 1970), p. 351.
390:, vol. 12 (Edinburgh, 1970), p. 174.
90:black mourning "dule" riding clothes
586:A Dictionary of the Law of Scotland
68:gave 20 shillings to masons at the
692:, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 415
493:Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland
226:Masons working on the building of
205:Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll
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612:, vol. 1 (Glasgow, 1887), p. 188.
600:, vol. 1 (Glasgow, 1876), p. 421.
563:, vol. 1 (Glasgow, 1854), p. 127.
223:had commissioned them as a gift.
710:Early modern history of Scotland
104:who made gold chains for her to
96:, and her ladies to wear at her
662:(Manchester, 2016), pp, 170-1.
445:Lives of the Queens of England
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478:(Edinburgh, 1965), pp. 20, 38
412:Charles Thorpe McInnes &
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211:gave a gunmaker in Dundee £3
166:The accounts of the purse of
350:Exchequer Rolls of Scotland
338:(Edinburgh, 1831), pp. 96-7
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508:(Woodbridge, 2020), p. 50.
495:(Edinburgh, 1755), p. 135.
474:'Pursemaster's Accounts',
190:Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
690:Accounts of the Treasurer
363:Accounts of the Treasurer
399:Charles Thorpe McInnes,
386:Charles Thorpe McInnes,
175:. When James VI visited
74:University of St Andrews
36:George Heriot's Hospital
34:Construction workers at
520:(London, 1877), p. 657.
161:baptism of Prince Henry
80:gave masons working at
61:Scottish royal accounts
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247:Great Seal of Scotland
228:George Heriot's School
70:College of St Salvator
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43:Payments and contexts
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106:present to diplomats
94:Mary, Queen of Scots
317:& G. P. Jones,
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207:. In 1619
134:lang siege
260:The Hague
201:bow maker
76:in 1461.
55:mentions
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285:Falkland
145:James VI
132:at the '
78:James IV
21:gratuity
283:and at
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277:livery
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213:Scots
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