Tack or Lease by John, abbot of Sweetheart, granting to Cuthbert Browne of Land a lease of half the corn mill of the parish of Lochkindeloch, c5th July 1559

Tack or Lease by John, abbot of Sweetheart, granting to Cuthbert Browne of Land a lease of half the corn mill of the parish of Lochkindeloch [Cuthbert having the other half in occupation also], to endure for nineteen years from Lammas 1559, at a yearly rental from the said half mill of twenty-one bolls of meal, i.e. ten and a half bolls of white meal and ten and a half bolls of grey meal. Dated at Sweetheart Abbey, - July 1559; perhaps same date as two other writs. Seal of convent attached, in fair preservation, as in a previous lease, with a background of flowers. Under the figures is a device like a monogram JB. Legend : 'Sigillum Commune Monasterii Dulcis Cordis'. The writ is signed by the abbot and by Thomas Murray, prior, William Johnston, John Kyrkpatrik, Thomas Dicson, Patrick Welche, Patrick Cowll, Andrew Donart, John Logan, Robert Hynd, and Gilbert Browne. Note. - It does not appear that this Gilbert Browne is identical with the abbot of that name, as their signatures differ.