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Anent the supplication given in to the estates of parliament, whereof the tenor follows: To the honourable lords, commissioners of barons, burghs and others now presently convened in this present high court of parliament, humbly shows your servants Lieutenant Colonel William Henderson, Major Thomas Gibson and Captain David Mushet, that where since our youth we have been serving foreign princes in soldiery until of late we were recalled by his majesty to serve him in the troubles in England, where we have remained sometime until lately we were commanded by orders to attend [James Graham], earl of Montrose, in respect of which we must confess that we have been so unfortunate as not to have received true information of the quarrel now in hand and danger of our religion and country. But hearing that the said earl did unnaturally intend to invade his own native country, we were moved by the horror of that fact to abandon the said earl and are now come to offer our willing and hearty service to the country, in defence whereof we are ready to employ our lives. Therefore we humbly beseech your lords to take the same into your grave consideration, and to cause delete our names out of the summons, if there be any, raised and execute against us or or any of us, and to lay such of your commandments upon us as we may have occasion to prove ourselves true hearted Scotsmen in your lords' service for defence of our country and religion, and in the meantime that we may have liberty and freedom in the country without trouble of us or any of us. Which supplication being read in audience of the parliament and the same, with the desire thereof above-written, taken into consideration by the estates of parliament, the said estates ordain the said Major Thomas Gibson's name, one of the supplicants above-named, to be deleted out of the aforesaid summons raised against him, and also ordain him and the said Lieutenant Colonel Henderson and Captain David Mushet, the other two supplicants aforesaid, to have liberty and freedom in the country without trouble to them or any of them, they and each one of them enacting themselves and making faith that they shall never carry arms against this country but shall behave themselves as true patriots; as also the said supplicants and every one of them according to the said ordinance did swear and subscribe the covenant of Scotland and also the National Covenant and league between the said three kingdoms, and acted and bound themselves and made faith that they should never carry arms against this country, but shall behave themselves as true patriots above-named, and each one of them swearing and subscribing the National Covenant of this kingdom and the covenant and league between the three kingdoms of Scotland, England and Ireland.