Life of Adam Smith by John Rae
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Glasgow College, with a view to obtaining a Snell exhibition to
Oxford. FOOTNOTES: [1] Original letter in possession of Professor Cunningham, Belfast. [2] A COUNT OF MONEY DEBURSED ABOUT MR. SMITH'S FUNERALL To eight bottles of ale £0 12 0 To butter and eggs to the seed cake 1 4 0 To four bottles of ale 0 6 0 To three pounds fresh butter for bread 0 14 0 To one pound small candles 0 4 6 To two pounds bisquet 1 4 0 To sixteen bottles of ale 1 4 0 To money sent to Edinr. for bisquet, stockings, and necessars 25 4 0 To three expresses to Edinburgh 2 14 0 To a pair of murning shous to Hugh 1 10 0 To horse hyre with the wine from Kinghorn 0 15 0 To the poor 3 6 0 To six bottles and eight pints of ale to the beadels, etc. 1 10 4 To pipes and tobacco 0 4 0 To four pints of ale to the workmen 0 12 8 To the postage of three letters 0 6 0 |
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