This addition of a fifth to every actual payment was augmented to a third by Earl Patrick’s similar aggravation of the Mark to 12 ounces; and increased penal conversions were exacted for all arrears, rests, or unpaid balance of duties beyond what the Islands could produce, till their actual burdens thus aggravated, and valued at the current averages of conversion, amounted to— 1600. _Butter_, 87½ Barrels at £20 £1,750 0 0 _Do._ loose, 1055 Lispunds at £2 2,110 0 0 _Grain_, 306 Lasts at £60 18,360 0 0 _Flesh_, 130½ Lasts at £16 2,088 0 8 _Swine_, 3 at £4 12 0 0 _Hawkhens_, &c., 3242 at 1s. 162 2 0 _Peats_, &c., about 23 5 0 _Money_ 144 13 0 ————— —— —— Total Crown Rental of Earl Patrick £25,650 0 0 ===== == == But besides this large revenue, and that derived from the Grassums, Droits, Tolls, Customs, Fines, and other unrentalled, unacknowledged, and unestimated perquisites, to the amount of about £6000 more, the Stewart Earls were also Commendators of the Estates of the Church, to which they proved no less dutiful as nursing fathers during their possession of about half a century. The Rental of the Bishopric at the Impignoration or beginning of the sixteenth century cannot be ascertained, but at the time of James V.’s visit, the articles composing the Church Rental (as shortly afterwards attested, and valued at the prices of the period), amounted to the following sums and quantities:— 1540. _Butter_, 180½ Barrels at £3 £541 10 0 _Grain_, 79 Lasts at £5 395 0 0 _Flesh_, 12½ Lasts at £3 37 10 0 _Marts_, 4 at £1, 10s. 6 0 0 _Hawkhens_, 217 at 6d. 5 8 6 _Swine_, 2 at 15s. 1 10 0 _Wax, Peats_, &c., about 13 1 6 _Silver_ 251 2 6 ————— —— —— Total Rents and Teinds of Bishopric in 1540 £1251 2 6 ===== == == These quantities were officially attested by Bishop Adam in 1561, and in 1568 (the date of his first contract with Lord Robert), amounted at the current prices to the value and quantity following, viz.—