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Edinburgh, 11 March 1707
The committee having examined the documents produced before them for instructing the losses and sufferings sustained by Hugh Scott, Thomas Simpson, John Graham, David MacDonald and John Liddel, who continued in the colony of Darien after the same was deserted, and likewise the case of Robert Pinkerton, John Malloch, James Graham, Mr Colin Campbell, brother to the laird of Monzie, Andrew Livingstone, surgeon, and Henry Cameron, surgeon, and Thomas Barker in Burntisland, who were taken prisoners at Cartagena and many of them suffered great hardships in Spain, as also having considered the sufferings of Sir Robert Hay, Hugh Scott, brother to Galashiels, Patrick Edmonstone, son to the laird of Ednam, and Captain Urquhart for their services to the company, the committee do recommend the said forenamed persons to the parliament that they may modify such a sum to each one of them for their losses and sufferings in the company's service as they shall think fit, to be paid out of the dead stock belonging to the company.
As also the committee having examined the accounts of James Montgomery, merchant in Glasgow, for the sum of £71 6s 8d sterling, William Arbuckle, merchant there, for £68 8s 2d sterling, James Witherspoon, merchant there, for £25, and William Thomson, surgeon there, for £33 9s 10d sterling, according to the accounts and instructions thereof given in since the stating of the last accounts of the company's debts, the committee are of opinion that the said four debts extending to the sum of £258 4s 8d sterling ought to be paid out of the dead stock belonging to the company.
[Thomas Hamilton, earl of] Haddington, in the presence of the committee
†Edinburgh, 11 March 1707
Her majesty's high commissioner and the estates of parliament, having heard the report within, they approve that part thereof which relates to the payment of the four debts found due within to the persons named within, extending in all to £258 4s 8d sterling, and that out of the fund of the company's dead stock. And likewise approve the other part of the report and grant the remainder of the company's dead stock, after payment of £300 sterling allowed for making up the accounts of the African Company, and £300 sterling allowed to Captain Campbell, Captain Stewart and Lieutenant Turnbull, and £50 sterling allowed to Ensign William Montgomery by a deliverance of this date, and the above sum of £258 4s 8d for the above four debts, to be applied and divided among the persons mentioned in the report within, and among the representatives of Alexander Ogilvie, Andrew Brown, Captain Alexander Montgomery and of Hugh Ross, and no more, by such proportions as the committee shall think fit, to whom they remit the determination thereof.
[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament