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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.