[1644/1/73]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Forasmuch as George Porterfield, merchant in Glasgow, has in April and May 1643 sold and delivered to General Major Munro for the use of the Scottish army in Ireland 847 barrels of wheat at 34s 6d sterling each boll, amounting the sum to £1,460 11s 6d sterling; as also clothes and shoes amounting to £575 11s 6d sterling, which sums, with three quarters annualrent from the time aforesaid until Candlemas [2 February] next, extends to £2,147 13s sterling, as the certificate under the hand of General Major Munro and William Thomson, commissary of the said army, and shown to the estates more fully purports. And the estates, finding it most just and reasonable that timely and thankful payment be made to the said George of the said sum out of the arrears due by the kingdom of England to that army or any other monies lifted for the use of the said army, do therefore declare that the same, with the annualrent thereof during the non-payment, shall remain and be a debt and burden to be paid of the first of the arrears that shall come for that army. But in case the said George shall not get payment that way, then and in that case the said estates declare that he, or any having his warrant assigning them or their committees to the said sums and arrears due thereof, that they and this kingdom shall be full debtors to him thereof, and accordingly give warrant and command to the general collector of the loan and his deputes to pay and deliver to the said George Porterfield, or any having his warrant, the said sum of £2,147 13s sterling out of the first and readiest of the loan not already disposed on by public warrant, they always receiving assignation to the same and arrears due thereof as said is, for the which this act shall be their warrant.
[1644/1/74]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Forasmuch as David Wemyss, merchant in Dundee, did in the month of November 1642 sell to [Alexander Leslie, earl of Leven], lord general, for the use of the Scottish army in Ireland 426 barrels of wheat at 28s sterling the barrel, extending both to £711 8s sterling, and received from William Thomson, commissary of the said army, £120 sterling in part payment thereof, and the lord general gave him a bill for the remainder, extending to £591 8s sterling, to be paid by the commissioners then at London out of the first monies to be received by them for the use of the said army, which he has not as yet received, as a certificate under the hand of the said William Thomson, commissary of the said army, shown to the said convention of estates bears. And they finding it just and reasonable that the said David should be satisfied of the remainder of the said sum, as for the price of the said victual so seasonably furnished to the said army and yet unpaid, do therefore declare that the same is and shall remain as a debt and burden to be paid out of the first end of the arrears due by the kingdom of England to the said army in Ireland, with the annualrent due for the same from the date of the order for payment, and shall be careful to see the same paid out of the first end of the said arrears that shall come for the said army. And in case the said David shall not receive payment that way, then and in that case the estates of this kingdom do declare that upon assignation to be made to them of the said sum and part of the arrears due thereof, the same, with the annualrent due for the non-payment thereof, is and shall be a public debt of this kingdom, and that the estates thereof and their committees shall be careful to see the same paid accordingly.
[1644/1/75]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Forasmuch as General Major Munro and the other officers and soldiers of the Scottish army in Ireland, being in necessity of great provision for the army, gave order to Alexander Muir, receiver of their victual, to agree a price and receive from Alexander Bridie, merchant in Aberdeen, the number of 417 barrels of meal upon 2 January last at 20s sterling, amounting to £417 sterling, as a precept under the hand of the said general major testifying the same and commanding the commissioners of the army to pay the same upon sight more fully purports. And the estates presently convened, having seen and considered the said precept and finding it just and reasonable that payment be made for the price of the said victual so seasonably furnished as said is, do therefore declare that the same is and shall remain as a debt and burden to be paid out of the first end of the arrears due by the kingdom of England to that army in Ireland, with the annualrent due for the same from the date of the order for payment, and that they will be careful to see the same paid out of the first of the arrears that shall come for that army. And in case the said Alexander shall not get payment that way, then and in that case the estates of this kingdom do declare that upon assignation to be made to them of the said sum and arrears due thereof, the same, with the annualrent during the non-payment thereof, is and shall be a public debt of this kingdom, and that the estates thereof and their committees shall be careful to see the same paid accordingly.