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In a count and reckoning pursued by Murray of Strowan against Mr. John Murray, his tutor, it was alleged, That the tutor could not be charged with greater prices of farm victual than the Candlemas fiars yearly. It was answered, That the tutor consumed most part of the farms in his own house; and that the most of the gentlemen in that country are in use to keep up their victual till summer and Lambmas, and get far greater prices than the fiars; and the fiars are ordinarily less than what is got for victual in these bounds. It was replied, That for what he spent in his house he was content to count for, at such prices as other gentlemen received; but the tutor, to satisfy the pupil's annual-rent, was oft-times forced to sell the victual before it came off the ground, or at Candlemas, for ready money.
The Lords ordained the prices to be proved as the gentlemen thereabout got for their victual; reserving the modification, after consideration of the fiars, with the prices proved.
