...mortifier of tho names of Gordon and Menzies, bein^ always preferred), and tho male children of any other relations of the mortifier that are of any other name, in the third place, to be preferred to others. After these, male children, or male graudchildren, of any oilier merchants or brethren of guild of...

...the names of Gordon and Menzies being always preferred to any others), and the male children of any relations of the Mortifier, that are of any other...of any other merchants and brethren of guild of the said burgh." The Hospital, then, is chiefly intended for behoof of the sons and grandsons of burgesses...