The bailies and council decree that St Nicholas board silver be given to sustain the folk who are infected with the pest. They also order that Andrew Lawson give the board silver he got last Sunday to be distributed to the sick folk etc.

The said day, the bailzeis and counsale present for the tyme, with avise of the nychtbouris present for the tyme, decernit and ordinit that Sanct Nicholace braid siluer be given to the sustentatioun of the seik folkis of the pest, during the tyme thairof, and the townis will; and als ordinit Andro Losoun to gif the braid siluer he gat one Sonday last was, to be distribuit to the seik folkis; and als consentit, all in ane voce, that the rest of the last taxt siluer aboun the ij c vj lib. xiij s. iiij d., quhilk is ellis pait for the same, and bering and deliuering thairof, be takin and gevin to the sustentatioun of the said seik folkis, and Robert Cullane deliuerit instantly xxxii thairof to John Bruise, officiar, to the effect forsaid.