Five thousandmerks were offered for him, dead or alive.
When the English representatives presented their abbot's petition they were asked whether he was prepared to repay to the Bishop of St. Andrews the 1100 merks already received on account.
Were not we--was not every one who owned the interest of the Covenanted Church of Scotland, bound by that covenant to cut off the Judas who had sold the cause of God for fifty thousand merks a-year?
Here are their descriptions," continued the Cornet, pulling out a proclamation, "the reward of a thousand merks is on each of their heads.
Thus nine-penny merks should be more valuable than six-penny merks, and twelve-penny more so than nine-penny.
The number of merks in each town is known from old records and traditions, or, practically, from the sum of all the proprietors.
When a part of the common is enclosed and farmed, the enclosure is called an outset; but the outsets are never included in the numeration of merks of rental land.
A merk, it is said, should contain 1600 square fathoms, and an ure is the eighth part of a merk; but the merks are everywhere of unequal dimensions, and scarcely two are of the same size.
A tenant taking ten merks in the above supposed town of M.
By looking at the valuation roll, you would find an immense difference between the rents of merks land and the rents of outsets.
The enclosed land in Zetland is divided into what are called merks and ures.
In these circumstances, if a landlord lets to a tenant any given number of merks, it is just giving him a fractional share, of which the total number of merks in the town is the denominators, and the number let the numerator.
The price which William agreed to pay for this ample restitution, was ten thousand merks sterling.
King’s Balistarius, or keeper of the cross-bows for the Castle of Ayr, was allowed yearly two merksand a half.
The burgesses of the towns had, in this short interval, so much increased their means, as to offer six thousand merks on this occasion.
Even in the lawless Galloway of 1508, McGhie of Phumpton was fined six merks for "throwing William Schankis, monk, from his horse.
The gray was a mare, and a right good mare; But when she wan the Annan water, She couldna hae ridden a furlong mair, Had a thousand merks been wadded at her.
After which, they getting notice what I was, some of themselves cried out to spare my life, for the council had offered 3000 merks for me.
There the said Hugh was fined in 1000 merks for reset, harbour and converse with him.
Mr. Welch, and 1000 merks for Mr. Dickson and each of the rest.
Upon Monday the 13, the council issued out a proclamation offering a reward of five thousand merks to any that would discover the actor, and pardon to accessories; but nothing more at that time ensued.
For it showed as manifestly as any other fact the hellish intent of the murderers, that they had taken time, even while I was in the act to come at them, to despoil my master of his purse with a thousand merks of gold therein.
For three merks in silver we got the use of the boat for a month, and with her both suitable oars and sails.
The undertaking was considered so arduous, that the contractor was to receive "200 merks a-year for five years, to assist him; but the speculation turned out so unprofitable that it was soon abandoned.
To stanch this bloody quarrel, the Marquis of Huntly, who was chief to both parties, and who had therefore a right to act as arbiter between them, ordered Frendraught to pay fifty thousand merks to Rothiemay's widow.
A like good fortune did not attend some of those sent to turn the merks of Peter of Ghent into edibles; for several foragers were intercepted in their passage from the country to the besieged city.
The mention of the monoculous knights of France had driven merks and all other moneys from her mind, and she would have rejoiced to have seen Perth taken upon the instant, provided always that she were taken with it.
It were worth a thousand merks a-year to the shire of Banff alone.
Fordun and Wintoun state, that the fine, to be paid by the person taking sanctuary, was twenty-four merks for a gentleman, and twelve merks for a yeoman.
There are only one or two places of Scotland proper wheremerks are in use,--Stirling and Dunfermline, I think.
I shall live by bread (not forgetting beef and brandy), it's my auld friend Nicol Jarvie, the best man that ever counted doun merks on a band till a distressed gentleman.
And, as you say, there's the thousand merks to be settled between us.
To keep the number down to two the canons in residence would admit no fresh colleague unless he spent during his first year from six hundred to a thousand merks in feasting and other useless expenditure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
