How about 'Aighins' = debt, according to the 1911 Scots Dictionary I find on-line?
esp. if you take the 'a' as belonging to the next word?
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924026538813#page/n33/mode/2up/search/debt
Nat Alcock
Dr N W Alcock
University of Warwick
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Hi all,
I am trying to list a document from 1713 that cannot possibly say what it appears to say. It reads:
Received from Gilbert McIlchoan this
day a geing which I oblige me to pay
or allow at demand to him on his order
given under my hand at Tarbert the twenty
and third day of Jun one thousand seven
hundred and thirteen yeirs
The problem is that the only definition I can find for "geing" is "human excrement; filth". Murdo, my predecessor, was here today and looked at it for me, and he agrees on the letters but thinks it sounds like it should be a sum of money although he has never come across it before and has no idea what sum it might be. Someone else suggested it might be fertiliser, but I have never come across a transaction like that before and I don't think it reads like that.
Can anyone stop our minds boggling?
Thanks,
Jackie Davenport,
Archives and Administration Manager
Argyll and Bute Council
01546 604774
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