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To his grace her majesty's high commissioner and the most honourable the estates of parliament, the petition of Doctor George Stirling of Letham,
Humbly shows,
That whereas from the time of the meeting of convention of estates in 1689, by the space of two and a half years, the deceased George Stirling, surgeon, apothecary in Edinburgh, your petitioner's father, was not only employed in attendance upon and furnishing medicaments to the prisoners of the government and others concerned therein, such as [...] Kendle, taken coming from Ireland, [...] Strachan, a priest, Mr Thomas Gordon, sometime regent in Glasgow, Esquire Paine, Colonel MacGregor and his servants, [...], provincial sergeant in Sir Thomas Livingstone's regiment, but also all those that were wounded at Killiecrankie, with many others, as occasion offered. And seeing your petitioner's said deceased father did, during the said space, most readily bestow his pains, gave his attendance, cure and furnished medicines to the said persons, as he was then from time to time ordered and appointed by the privy council and those in the government for the time, and thereby supplied the place of his majesty's surgeon and apothecary, who is in use to receive £100 sterling yearly of salary over and above his payment of the medicaments and drugs,
May it therefore please your grace and most honourable estates of parliament to take the premises and your petitioner's circumstances into your serious consideration, and seeing your petitioner's father did, during the space aforesaid of two and a half years, at the time when the same was most requisite, supply the place and office of her majesty's surgeon and apothecary, and was at great expenses for medicaments to the sick and wounded over and above his said pains and attendance, to order the payment of such a sum as your grace and most honourable estates shall think suitable for my said father's pains, attendance and medicaments during the space aforesaid, out of the funds allocated for payment of the arrears of the army, or any other effectual fund.
And your petitioner shall ever pray, etc.
Gi. Burnet
†Edinburgh, 7 March 1707
Her majesty's high commissioner and the estates of parliament, having heard this petition, they remit to the committee to consider the same and to report their opinion relating thereto to the parliament.
[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament