Drumelzier's Tutor-Account v. His Brother The Earl of Tweedale
Date: 16 July 1680 Case No. No. 199.
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The Lords allowed deduction of rent given to a tenant, the Earl deponing he was not able to keep the room without deduction, and that he could not get another tenant, or set the lands at a better rate. The Lords had done the same before betwixt Oxenfurd and his Tutors, and to Mr. Patrick Home, as factor for his brother; but the Lords refused the Earl a pension of £.16 they had paid to a tenant's relict, and £.100 to the former Laird of Drumelzier, though the minor's father was in use to do it; which use tutors continue where they are not settled in writ; but because of this loss the Lords added £.100 now to the tutor's factor's pension yearly, they having a latitude as to salary.
