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The estates of parliament, haveing taken to ther consideratioune ane supplicatioune given in be Sir Williame Dick, makand mentioune that whair be dissapoyntment of publict payment in Scotland and Ingland he and his childring for him are daylie straitned be his creditors with all rigoure of law, and swa are forced to uplift and persew for any soumes of money that he hes awand to him or his sones, wherin ther dilligence of horning againes their debtoris is daylie gone about to be wrongouslie suspendit be thame, contrair to justice and equitie and to the ruine of the said supplicant be the want of ther owne to pey these rigorous creditors for publict ingadgmentis. Humblie thairfore craveing that ordour be given to the clerk register and his clerk to the billis and suspentiounes that no suspentioune be past againes the said supplicant or his sones upone chairges of horneing to be used at thair instance againes their debtors upone band or decreit without reall consignatioune, nor louseing of arreistment be granted without guid and sufficient cautioun fund to the said supplicantis contentment, and that moneyis swa consigned may be given up to the supplicantis be the clerk to the suspentiounes upone his owne and his childringis securitie, as at mair lenth is contenit in the said supplicatioune. Whilk being heard and considderit be the saidis estats of parliament, they have dischairged and be thir presentis dischairges the clerk of register and his clerk to the billis to pas any suspentioune upone any chairge to be given at the instance of the said Sir Williame Dick or his foirsaidis unles the pertie chairged ather consigne the haill soumes of money chairged for, at leist so much therof as cannot be instructed be writt to be peyed, or utherwayes that befoir any suspentioune be granted that the perties, chairger and chairged, be heard befoir thrie of the ordinar lordis of sessioune, and are heerby ordained to intimat to the saidis Sir Williame Dick and his sones that they are to considder the reassones of the suspentiounes to be craved againes thame in maner foirsaid, to the effect that the said Sir Williame and his sones may be present for ther defences in the contrair; and, efter hearing of the perties, sall grant and condiscend to the suspentioune and the bill to be past and subscryved be the haill thrie lordis. And lykwayes ordaines that no louseing of arreistment be granted againes the said Sir William Dick and his sones without guid and sufficient cautioune fund at the sight of the saidis thrie lordis.