Drinksilver

Drinksilver was a kind of tip or gratuity given to artisans in Early Modern Scotland, a sum of money suitable for buying drinks and celebrating.[1] Records of payments give insights into labour, service, and patronage.[2]

Construction workers at George Heriot's Hospital in Edinburgh in the 1620s and 1630s received drinksilver payments as the project progressed
  1. ^ 'Drinksilver', Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
  2. ^ Douglas Knoop & G. P. Jones, The Scottish Mason and the Mason Word (Manchester, 1939), pp. 38-9.