[1643/6/41]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Forasmuch as the convention of the estates have thought fit that the sum of £800,000 be advanced by this kingdom by way of loan, and that five parts thereof be paid by the shires out of the spirituality and temporality, and the sixth part by the burghs, and to the effect that the said five parts be laid on in an equal proportion, the estates give warrant and commission to [Archibald Campbell], marquis of Argyll, the earls [William Keith, earl] Marischal, [John Gordon, earl of] Sutherland, [John Kennedy, earl of] Cassilis, [John Maitland, earl of] Lauderdale, [David Carnegie, earl of] Southesk (or in his absence, [John Carnegie, lord] Loure), [John Elphinstone, lord] Balmerino, [Robert Balfour, lord Balfour of] Burleigh, [Sir Adam Hepburn of] Humbie, [Sir Michael Balfour of] Denmilne, [Sir John Shaw of] Greenock, [James MacDowall of] Garthland, [Alexander Brodie of] Brodie, [Sir Alexander Falconer of] Halkerton, [Sir Robert Grierson of] Lag and [Sir John Veitch of] Dawyck, the commissioners for burghs Sir John Smith [of Grotehill] and James Dennistoun for Edinburgh, Thomas Durham for Perth, Patrick Leslie [of Iden] for Aberdeen, John Rutherford for Jedburgh (or in his absence, Gideon Jack for Lanark), Mr Robert Barclay for Irvine, Mr Alexander Douglas [of Downies] for Banff, Thomas Bruce [of Weltoun] for Stirling and James Airth for Pittenweem, or any fifteen or more of them, there being five of each estate, to take trial and information by all such lawful means as they shall think convenient for the time, according to their best knowledge and conscience, to appoint and set down without partiality what they shall judge to be the just and equal proportion of that sum that is to be advanced by each several shire. And the convention declares that there shall be no leading case hereafter, and is to be set down in the act as is expressed in the act of parliament.
[1643/6/42]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The estates of this kingdom recommend to the convention of burghs, which is to be at Dumbarton, to grant warrant and commission to Thomas Cunningham, merchant in Campvere, authorising him in the interim until a conservator be established to attend to the privileges of the merchants of this kingdom trading there or any other place in the Low Countries, and to assist them in enjoying the same, and to gather in such duties as are imposed upon staple wares and commodities there, and to be accountable thereof to the burghs. As also with power to him arbitrarily to decide in all causes of the merchants, skippers and factors which used to be judged by the conservator, and which they for themselves and those whom they represent shall submit to him as arbitrator, without prejudice always of his majesty's right of presentation of a conservator.
[1643/6/43]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Forasmuch as upon information made to some of his majesty's council by [...] Giffen, merchant in Glasgow, upon oath that several persons who are now presently in the Dunkirk ship which is in Leith were about a year since in a frigate which brought over [...] O'Neale to Ireland, order was given for sequestration of some of the said persons until they should be examined. And the convention of estates finding it necessary that this business be exactly tried, they do therefore approve of the said proceedings of the councillors aforesaid, and give warrant and commission to the general of the artillery and to the commissioners of the burgh of Kinghorn and Queensferry to call before them the captain and company of the said Dunkirk ship, and to try the truth of this information and what persons are in the said ship presently, or if there be any put away, and to put them to their oaths thereupon and as they shall think fit to give warrant for sequestration of the persons, and to report.