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The Storehouse of Foulis / Munro rent register

Munro rent register

August 24, 2015 by Amanda Moffet · Full size is 640 × 427 pixels

This is a copy of the Munro rent register from 1794. Tenants came to the Storehouse to pay their rent in kind as oats, bere (an old kind of barley) and occasionally wheat. A letter from Sir Hugh Munro to his factor in october 1795 states that his tenants should be given a receipt for the grain they bring to the storehouse and they should bring as much as they conveniently can at one time. On February 3rd 1796 at a time when oatmeal was very scarce, a group over 150 people marched on the Storehouse. They believed it to hold stores of oats but, after threatening to break in to the building, a deputation was allowed in by the storekeeper. Finding only barley and wheat they refused to buy saying that they "... lived chiefly by oatmeal and they did not mind tho' he should send away all the wheat and barley... provided he left the oats."

This is a copy of the Munro rent register from 1794. Tenants came to the Storehouse to pay their rent in kind as oats, bere (an old kind of barley) and occasionally wheat. A letter from Sir Hugh Munro to his factor in october 1795 states that his tenants should be given a receipt for the grain they bring to the storehouse and they should bring as much as they conveniently can at one time. On February 3rd 1796 at a time when oatmeal was very scarce, a group over 150 people marched on the Storehouse. They believed it to hold stores of oats but, after threatening to break in to the building, a deputation was allowed in by the storekeeper. Finding only barley and wheat they refused to buy saying that they “… lived chiefly by oatmeal and they did not mind tho’ he should send away all the wheat and barley… provided he left the oats.”

This is a copy of the Munro rent register from 1794. Tenants came to the Storehouse to pay their rent in kind as oats, bere (an old kind of barley) and occasionally wheat. A letter from Sir Hugh Munro to his factor in october 1795 states that his tenants should be given a receipt for the grain they bring to the storehouse and they should bring as much as they conveniently can at one time. On February 3rd 1796 at a time when oatmeal was very scarce, a group over 150 people marched on the Storehouse. They believed it to hold stores of oats but, after threatening to break in to the building, a deputation was allowed in by the storekeeper. Finding only barley and wheat they refused to buy saying that they “… lived chiefly by oatmeal and they did not mind tho’ he should send away all the wheat and barley… provided he left the oats.”