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The which day the supplication underwritten, whereof the tenor follows: My lords and other commissioners of parliament, to your lords humbly means and shows we your servants, Thomas Nicolson, George Morrison, William Petrie, burgess of Aberdeen, and Mr John Chalmers, clerk depute of the said burgh, that where we are charged and cited to compear before the honourable court of parliament to answer to such particulars as are mentioned and set down in the letters raised relating thereto or as shall be laid to our charge, likewise, for obedience to the said citation, we have compeared and attended the said parliament continually since the down-sitting thereof and are willing to undergo such trial as your lords shall think expedient. Therefore we beseech your lords to delegate so many of your number as pleases your lords for trying and examining us upon the said particulars, seeing we are much damnified by our long stay here and neglect of our particular affairs and callings, as the supplication bears. Being read in audience of parliament and the desire thereof taken into consideration, the estates of parliament have remitted and remit the trial and examination of the aforesaid four persons, supplicants above-named, upon the said particulars for which they are cited to compear and answer before the parliament and mentioned and set down in the letters raised against them relating thereto, or shall be laid to their charge, or any of their charges, to the committee of estates to be sent north by the estates of parliament to be appointed for the northern business, which is appointed to sit down at Aberdeen, 11 July next to come; to the which committee the said estates remit the supplicants as said is and ordain the supplicants to answer there and to keep such times and diets as shall be appointed by the aforesaid committee to them.