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Prayers said, rolls called.
The estates of parliament ordain Sir Alexander Gibson [of Durie], clerk register, to deliver to William Thomson, commissary depute, the bond granted by [Alexander Leslie], earl of Leven, [Alexander Leslie], lord Balgonie and Sir John Ruthven and their cautioners to [Mary Sutton], countess of Home upon the payment to her of the sum of £7,000 sterling, with the annualrent and expenses contained therein, together also with the countess of Home's assignation to the aforesaid bond and sums to [John Maitland], lord Maitland and Mr Robert Barclay, assigning them to the said sums and bond aforesaid, with the said assignees' discharge thereof; and a factory granted by the assignees to a blank person for uplifting the aforesaid £7,000 principal and £280 of annualrent due at Whitsunday [9 June] 1644, which were all produced in parliament with the Lord Maitland and Mr Robert Barclay's letter and are in the hands and keeping of the clerk register to be cancelled and destroyed or otherwise used by the said William Thomson as he thinks good, for the which this act shall be a sufficient warrant to the clerk register.