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Most sacred sovereign,
As upon the first notice the council received of the apprehending of [Randall MacDonnell], earl of Antrim, they did humbly acquaint your majesty forthwith by their letter of the [...] of this instant, so do I now, in name of the convention of estates, present to your majesty the enclosed copy of the depositions of the earl and his two servants and of the letters found upon them, which were written by [Robert Maxwell], earl of Nithsdale and [James Gordon], viscount of Aboyne, whereby your majesty will perceive this kingdom and the peace thereof closely interested and the presumptions whereupon he was first apprehended to be now confirmed. And so etc. Signed, [John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor. In presence of the convention, Edinburgh, 29 June.
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Right honourable,
The convention of the estates of this kingdom, being informed that various ships going with victual and other necessaries from several parts thereof for supply of the Scottish army in Ireland have been set upon by some Irish and Dunkirk frigates full of Irish soldiers upon our north coast, their passengers tortured and the ships spoiled and burnt, have commanded me to represent to you the hard condition our army in Ireland will be brought to if such proportions of victual and other necessaries as we spare to them, and without which they could not have subsisted until this time, may not without danger be transported from any part of this kingdom; and therefore earnestly to desire you to represent this to both houses of parliament, that not only ships of war may be appointed for guarding the passage between Scotland and Ireland according to the treaty, but also that some ships of war be presently sent to guard our north coast since great numbers of Irish and Dunkirk frigates do appear thereupon, whereby both provision to our army and all other traffic and commerce by sea is hindered. I rest etc. Signed, [John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor. In presence of the convention, Edinburgh, 29 June.