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Prayer said and rolls called.
The king being present.
The which day the king's majesty and estates of parliament having taken to their consideration the report of the committee appointed by them regarding the particular controverted between Master Alexander Pitcairn, minister of Tannadice, and James Ramsay of Ogill, concerning the bond after-mentioned, after hearing of both parties in relation thereto before the said committee, his majesty and the estates of parliament ordain the bond taken by the committee of estates upon 26 June 1641 and registered in the books of that committee the [...] day of the same month and year, in the which bond the said James Ramsay of Ogill and George [Gordon], lord Gordon, as cautioner for him, are bound to the said Master Alexander Pitcairn for his personal indemnity under the pain of 5,000 merks on every occasion, and for the like sum, in case James Ramsay of Ogill be found art or part of the wrong done to the said minister, to stand in force until 8 January 1642. And in the meantime, between now and that day, ordains the minister to pursue and do such diligence as he will be served for making of the said James Ramsay of Ogill art or part of the wrong done to the minister mentioned in the bond, and if he fail herein, ordains the foresaid bond to be extinct and ineffectual after the said day, but the said James Ramsay of Ogill to find caution for the minister's indemnity for the time thereafter.