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To the king's most excellent majesty and the most honourable estates of this present parliament,
We, the lieutenant colonels and majors of horse and foot in the last Scottish army, do humbly show that whereas we, besides our charge as lieutenant colonels and majors, had also our several particular companies committed to us, and that in all armies whatsoever officers of our condition have pay as captains of their particular companies by as good right as their pay for they charge in chief aforesaid.
May it therefore please your most excellent majesty and most honourable estates of this present parliament to take to your gracious consideration the equity and justice of our demands, and we doubt not but upon true information it will not be denied to us that right which is universally observed in all armies. And we as in duty bound shall pray etc.