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Compeared personally Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie, knight, clerk register, and produced the discharge underwritten granted to him by William Thomson, commissary depute, and desired the same to be recorded and registered in the books of parliament; the which desire the estates found reasonable and therefore ordained the same to be recorded, inserted and registered in the books of parliament, whereof the tenor follows: I, William Thomson, commissary depute appointed for the public, by this act grant me to have received from Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie, clerk register, the sum of 20,000 merks Scots money deposited in his hands by Mr George Douglas of Pinwherrie, according to the order of the estates of parliament, and now ordained by the said estates to be delivered to me; of the which sum of 20,000 merks I grant the receipt for the public use and shall be accountable for the same accordingly, consenting for the more security that this discharge be recorded in the books of parliament, there to remain for future memory, and for that effect constitutes [...] my procurators, promising concerning [their] approval. In witness whereof, written by me, the said William, I have subscribed this discharge with my hand at Edinburgh, 17 July 1644 before these witnesses, William Carmichael, Mr James Cranston and William Thomson, servants to the said lord register. Signed thus, William Thomson, William Carmichael, witness, Mr James Cranston, witness, William Thomson, witness. Likewise the said estates ordain the clerk register to give up to Mr George Douglas of Pinwherrie his ticket, produced in the clerk register's hand by John Campbell upon the receipt by the said Mr George of the 18,000 merks specified therein, which was accordingly done.