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To his grace [John Hay], marquis of Tweeddale, her majesty's high commissioner, and the honourable estates of parliament, the petition of Elizabeth Maxwell, spouse to Captain Robert Drummond, lately of [William Kerr], lord Jedburgh's regiment, disbanded, and Jean Drummond, his sister, and having right from Captain Thomas Drummond, also her brother.
Humbly shows,
That there is due of arrears to the said Captain Thomas Drummond, as lieutenant in the late [Archibald Campbell], duke of Argyll's regiment, from 1 November 1689 to 1 January 1691, and, as captain therein, to 1 February thereafter, the sum of £214 17s 2d sterling, to which I, the said Jean Drummond, have right by assignation dated 17 May 1701, at the said captain's last going abroad in the service of the Scots Company Trading to Africa and the Indies, for my aliment and subsistence during his absence, and for payment of his debts. Likewise, there are several arrears due to the said Captain Robert Drummond, to which I, the said Elizabeth Maxwell, his spouse, have right for my aliment and subsistence, and for paying also his debts, but cannot now state the same, in regard the papers were left in the hands of James Hamilton, clerk in the Canongate, now deceased, whose papers are not yet inspected. And seeing that all the other officers who had been employed in the service of the said company have been specially noticed and readily paid of their arrears as they made application for the same, and that the said two captains are still abroad in the company's service, and have been employed therein since the very first undertaking, and that your petitioners' subsistence and aliment in their absence does very much depend upon the said arrears, and that a part also is allocated for paying the captains' debt as said is,
May it therefore please your grace and honourable estates of parliament, upon consideration of the said captains' constant service to the said company, and out of compassion upon your petitioners in their absence, to order payment of what shall be found due to the said captains to your petitioners for their aliment and subsistence according to their rights, and for paying the said captains' debts, and that out of any ready fund your wisdom shall think fit. And your petitioners shall ever pray.
†Edinburgh, 23 August 1704
Her majesty's high commissioner and the estates of parliament, having heard and considered this petition, they remit the same to the commission.
[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament