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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†