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Anent the supplication given in to the estates of parliament, now presently convened by virtue of the last act of the last parliament held by his majesty and three estates in 1641, by James Hamilton of Bogs and James Stewart, merchant burgess of Edinburgh, desiring that the said estates of parliament would give present order that according to the supplicants' former acts made in their favour by the committee of estates, they may be paid of their just debt owing to them by the estates, being about £40,000 sterling or thereby, out of the loan and first and readiest of the monies that come from England for either of the two Scottish armies in England and Ireland, and that the said estates would interpose their authority to the said supplicants' acts of the committee of estates granted to them for their payment and surety of the sums specified therein, as the said supplication purports. Which supplication being read in audience of the parliament, the estates remitted the same into the consideration of their several bodies apart, which was accordingly done, and thereafter the same supplication being newly again read in plain parliament in audience of the whole estates, the said estates appointed a committee consisting of some few of every estate for considering the aforesaid supplication and thinking upon the fittest way for giving satisfaction to the supplicants, and this committee having accordingly considered the aforesaid supplication and desire thereof, and agreed their thoughts and resolutions relating thereto, they this day produced the same in writing, which was publicly read in audience of the parliament and whole estates thereof. And the same heard and considered by the said estates and they thereupon being well and ripely advised, the said estates allow and approve the precept granted to the supplicants of £5,000 sterling out of the £30,000 sterling come from England for the use of the Scottish army in Ireland, and ordain the said £5,000 sterling to be paid to the supplicants, according to the said precept in part payment of the sums justly owing to them by the estate. And also the said estates of parliament by this act grant warrant to Mr Herring and Mr Wal[...]†, treasurers of Goldsmiths Hall at London, for present payment to the said James Hamilton and James Stewart, or any having their order and warrant for their use, the sum of £10,000 sterling out of the first and readiest of the £30,000 sterling first payable to the Scottish army in Ireland by the parliament of England in part payment to the supplicants of their just debt aforesaid. And also the estates ratify and approve in favour of the supplicants aforesaid the former acts granted to them by the committee of estates for their said payment and further security of the sums specified therein, and ordain annualrent to be paid to them of the same sums since the times of payment thereof and in time coming during the non-payment of the same. And the said estates by this act give warrant and command to William Thomson, their commissary depute, or any other who shall have warrant from the estates to serve in his place, to pay and deliver to the said James Hamilton and James Stewart the sum of £1,000 sterling out of the first and readiest of the borrowed money that shall be borrowed for the use of the public from the said James Hamilton and James Stewart's own creditors at any time between now and Lammas [1 August] next 1644. And the said estates hereby expressly declare that these monies that shall be borrowed for the use of the public from the said supplicants said creditors at any time between now and Lammas next as said is shall be applied to no other use until the supplicants be paid of the aforesaid £1,000 sterling as said is, and ordain the same monies so to be borrowed from the supplicants' creditors to be allowed to their said creditors in payment of the sums owing by the supplicants to them, that the lender may discharge the said supplicants and accept public surety in place of their bond for as much, and declare this last £1,000 sterling to be in part payment of the new bargain of 10,000 bolls of meal to be sent by the supplicants to Ireland according to the contract passed between the estates and them of the date hereof.
Forasmuch as the estates of parliament, taking into their consideration the petition of James Hamilton of Bogs and James Stewart, merchant burgess of Edinburgh, desiring payment of the sum of £40,000 sterling or thereby owing to them by the estates for victual and other provision furnished by them to the Scottish army in Ireland, they find the desire just and reasonable and tied and bound in honour and [...] to see them satisfied of that which they have so willingly undertaken and performed. And therefore, and in respect the petitioners have presently undertaken to furnish anew 10,000 bolls of meal to the said army in Ireland, they ordain the petitioners to be paid of the sum of £10,000 sterling (of the sums justly owing to them) out of the first and readiest of the £30,000 sterling first payable to the Scottish army in Ireland by the parliament of England, and this £10,000 sterling to be in part payment to the petitioners of their just debt truly resting to them. And for the said James Hamilton and James Stewart's more ready payment and for their further encouragement to go on in furnishing the said army in Ireland, the said estates of parliament by this act grant precept and warrant to Mr Herring and Mr Warring, [...] treasurers of Goldsmiths Hall at London, upon sight hereof, to make present payment to the said James Hamilton and James Stewart, or any having their power, order and warrant for their use, of the said sum of £10,000 sterling out of the first and readiest of the aforesaid £30,000 sterling first payable to the Scottish army in Ireland by the parliament in England, for the which the estates declare that this act, with the said James Hamilton and James Stewart's (or any having their order and warrant) receipts of the said sum of £10,000 sterling, shall be a sufficient discharge and exoneration to the parliament of England for the same sum of £10,000 sterling and to all others to whom it is appropriate.