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The convention of estates nominate and appoint the earls [William Cunningham, earl of] Glencairn, [John Kennedy, earl of] Cassilis, [John Maitland, earl of] Lauderdale, [John Hamilton, lord] Bargany, [John Carnegie, lord] Loure, [Sir Alexander Falconer of] Halkerton, [Sir Thomas Nicolson of] Carnock, [Thomas Crombie of] Kemnay, [Sir John Shaw of] Greenock, [Sir Michael Balfour of] Denmilne, the commissioners [Robert Fleming and Thomas Paterson for] Edinburgh, [Robert Davidson for] Dundee, [Patrick Leslie of Iden for] Aberdeen, [James Bell for] Glasgow and [George Bell for] Linlithgow (or any nine of them, there being two of each estate) and [John Campbell, earl of Loudoun], chancellor, to be supernumerary, to meet tomorrow at 8 o'clock and to consider the most just and equal way least prejudicial to the kingdom and most sure and beneficial to the armies in England and Ireland for procuring of credit, whereupon a present sum of money may be raised for a present supply of these armies and for their future relief in case of necessity, and that by way of excise or by any other better or more expedient way, and to report their opinion to the estates.
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The estates do declare that in the division of the great committee to be in two quorums, one to be with the army and another to remain in this kingdom, the meaning of the estates was cumulative and not privative in so far as any one of the said two committees is, notwithstanding of this division, a member of both committees, as he shall have occasion to be present and has as free a voice and place in either of the committees as if he were particularly named.
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Forasmuch as the committee of estates have employed Hugh Kennedy, provost of Ayr, to hire and furnish some ships for carrying 4,000 bolls of meal to Ireland for the use of the Scottish army there, and promised by their act to see the charges he should be put to in keeping, embarking and transporting the said meal paid to him, and he having now given this account thereof extending in all to £1,135 Scots 16s, and the same being revised and sufficiently instructed before by the convention, and they finding it reasonable that the same should be paid, therefore the convention of estates ordain and command [Sir Adam Hepburn of] Humbie and William Thomson, his depute, to pay the said sum of £1,135 16s to the said Hugh Kennedy out of the readiest public monies being in his hand, for the which this act, with the party's receipt, shall be their warrant.
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The estates nominate and appoint David Kennedy, James Kerr, Thomas Kincaid and Nehemiah Touch to be surgeons in the army presently sent from this kingdom into England, and that each of them shall have the charge of two regiments joined in one brigade as they shall be directed by [Alexander Leslie, earl of Leven], lord general, and committee with the army, for which service the estates modify the sum of £15 sterling to be presently paid to each one of them for furnishing of their chest, and 5s sterling of daily allowance to each surgeon, and 4s to his two mates, half a crown daily for maintenance of two baggage horse, and 3s daily for maintenance of three saddle horse, and that there be a month's pay advanced for their equipment and furnishing of their horses, and ordain William Thomson to pay the said £15 and month's advance to each of them.