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To his grace her majesty's high commissioner and the right honourable the estates of parliament,
The petition of [Alexander] Grant, younger, of that ilk, in name and on behalf of his father,
Humbly shows,
That your petitioner having applied to the last parliament concerning the losses sustained by me through the incursions of highlanders and other rebels joining with them after the late revolution, and the damages done by the regular forces in lying and encamping upon my lands, etc.,
That parliament ordained probation to be taken thereof before the commissioners of supply, which, being reported to and examined by a committee of parliament, the same was thereafter approved by the whole house.
And thereupon your petitioner has extracted and herewith produces an act and recommendation of the parliament approving the probation of my losses and recommending me to the late king for reparation thereof.
And seeing by the common rules of justice, when any person does suffer upon the account and in the service of a society, especially when he is employed by the public authority thereof, his damages ought not to fall solely to his own share,
May it therefore please your grace and the honourable estates to make effectual my reparation in such manner as you shall judge expedient, or at the least to renew the aforesaid recommendation of the former parliament to her present majesty and her royal consideration thereof.
And your petitioner shall ever pray.
†Edinburgh, 13 March 1707
Her majesty's high commissioner and the estates of parliament, having heard this petition, grant the desire thereof, and recommend the petitioner to her majesty's royal and gracious consideration for repairing his losses and damages contained in the report.
[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor†
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13 March 1707
Her majesty's high commissioner and the estates of parliament, having heard the petition of Alexander Grant, younger, of that ilk, in name and on behalf of his father, humbly showing to them that he, having applied to the last parliament (there take in the petition), as the said petition bears, for instructing whereof there was produced for the petitioner the aforesaid act and recommendation of parliament, dated 10 July 1695: Upon the application of Ludovic Grant of that ilk, bearing the parliament to have remitted to a committee for private affairs the consideration of a report of his losses and damages with the instructions thereof, and the said committee to have reported to the parliament their opinion, finding that the laird of Grant's and his vassals' and tenants' losses amounted to £120,486 3s 10d, besides £30,000 as five years' rent of the barony of Urquhart, and his majesty's then committee and the estates of parliament at that time have approved the said report of the laird of Grant's and his said tenants' damages, and to have recommended him to his majesty's royal and gracious consideration for repairing the losses and damages contained in the aforesaid report, as is more fully expressed in the said act and recommendation; and her majesty's high commissioner and the said estates of parliament, having fully considered the said petition now given in to them by the said Alexander Grant, younger, in name and on behalf of his father, as is above-mentioned, they granted and hereby grant the desire thereof and recommended and hereby recommend the petition to her majesty's royal and gracious consideration for repairing his losses and damages covered in the report.