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Anent the supplication given in to the estates of parliament by Dame Margaret Graham, whereof the tenor follows: My lords and others, the right honourable estates of the parliament, humbly means and shows your lordships' humble petitioner Dame Margaret Graham that where I am for the present in extremely great necessity, having nothing whereupon to live, my conjunct fee lands in Galloway being affected by my husband's forfeiture and thereby coming into your lordships' hands, neither will my chamberlains, tenants and occupiers of the said lands pay to me any duties for the same without your lordships' warrant, therefore I humbly beseech your lordships, in consideration of the premises and of my extreme necessity, that it would please your lordships to give warrant and commission to me, my factors and servants in my name to uplift and receive from the tenants, occupiers and others who are resting owing any thing of the aforesaid duties such a proportion thereof as your lordships shall allow for my maintenance in time coming and for defraying such debts as I have already contracted, and your lordships' answer humbly I beseech. Which supplication, being reported in audience of the parliament from that committee appointed for bills and supplications to whom the same was first presented, and the same supplication, with the present estate and condition of the supplicant, being heard and considered by the estates of parliament, they, out of pity and mere favour of the supplicant, for aliment and maintenance, have gifted, given and granted and hereby gift, give and grant to the said Dame Margaret Graham, supplicant, the whole duties of her conjunct fee and liferent lands in Galloway and benefit of her contract of marriage with the late [Alexander Stewart], lord Garlies, her first husband, for arrears unpaid and in time coming according to her infeftment, right and provision of her said contract of marriage. And therefore the estates by this act grant warrant to the said Dame Margaret Graham, supplicant, and her factors and servants in her name for her use to uplift and receive from the tenants and occupiers of her conjunct fee lands and from others who still owe any of the aforesaid duties the same duties of the years bygone remaining unpaid and in time coming, according to her said infeftment, right and provision of her contract of marriage aforesaid, and, if need be, giving the said Dame Margaret Graham and her factors and servants in her name the right to call and pursue thereof, always paying and performing all public dues bygone and in time coming for her said liferent and conjunct fee lands due and payable for the same, according to the public orders already given out or to be given out for the use and service of the public; in payment and performance whereof the estates declare the supplicant and her factors and servants aforesaid, with her said conjunct fee and liferent lands and duties thereof, shall be liable. And the estates declare that this act is without prejudice to lawful creditors of their lawful debts within the kingdom contracted since the time of her second marriage until the forfeiture of Ludovic Lindsay, [sometime earl of Crawford], now husband to the supplicant.
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Anent the supplication given in to the estates of parliament, convened in the second session of this first triennial parliament by virtue of the last act of the last parliament held by his majesty and three estates in 1641, by William Liddell, portioner of Westbarns, desiring payment of the sum of £17,747 4s 4d Scots money, which is found to be owed to him by the auditors of the accounts of the common burdens after fitting and closing of the accounts of receipt, advancements and giving out by him in 1640, he being then appointed by Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie, clerk register, then commissary-general, to be his commissary depute for the presbytery of Dunbar for quartering and supporting the regiments and forces for the army and sending provision to Chauslie, Duns and other places where it did encamp, and which sum is outstanding since the year of God 1640. Likewise he has paid and pays annualrent thereof to those from whom he was forced to borrow monies for payment of these poor and needy people to whom the same was first owed, and without the payment whereof the supplicant's estate will be utterly ruined and overthrown, whose case is most pitiful and singular and deserves to be taken in pity and consideration that he may be paid and satisfy his pressing creditors, as the supplication at more length bears; with the aforesaid fitted account subscribed by the auditors of the common burdens and produced for instructing the aforesaid supplication, and that the sum craved is still owed to the supplicant not including any allowance given up in the said accounts for the supplicant's fees and bearing that the supplicant's own fee is not given up nor allowed in the said accounts, as the same accounts likewise more fully purport. Which supplication, with the fitted and subscribed accounts aforesaid produced as said is, and desire of the said supplication being reported in audience of the parliament from the committee for bills and supplications, to whom the same was first presented, and the same supplication and desire thereof and subscribed account above-specified produced as said is, being heard and considered by the estates of parliament, they find that there rests indebted and owing by the public to the said William Liddell, supplicant, the aforesaid sum of £17,747 4s 4d Scots money, according to the said subscribed account produced, fitted and subscribed by the auditors of the common burdens, in which sum the supplicant's own fee is not allowed nor given up in the said account; they also find the supplicant's desire just and reasonable that he be satisfied and paid of the aforesaid sum justly owing to him as said is, which the estates find and declare to be a public debt to be paid to the said William Liddell, supplicant, by the estates of the kingdom. And therefore the estates of parliament hereby recommend the supplicant to the commissioners for the excise and to the committee for the monies to take such speedy course for his payment of the said sum of £17,747 4s 4d, with such annualrent as they shall find due, as the committee shall think most fit and expedient for the supplicant's satisfaction and payment in respect of his pitiful and singular case and of the pressing of his creditors and for preventing his utter ruin and overthrow.
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The estates of parliament, now convened in the second session of this first triennial parliament by virtue of the last act of the last parliament held by his majesty and three estates in 1641, taking into consideration the great slowness and backwardness in the shires to pay their loan and tax granted by the convention of estates and appointed to have been paid 18 months ago or thereby in as much as most shires have not nor will not give in their accounts of their loan and tax, notwithstanding the necessity and prejudice the service of the public sustains for want of money, albeit there be nothing more due than the loan and tax granted by the estates for that service; they therefore command and ordain all subcollectors of the loan and tax who have not given in, cleared and perfected their accounts thereof to bring in to the collector general of the loan and tax and his deputes all their accounts of the same, together with the diligence done by the subcollectors, according to the act of the convention of estates for getting in the loan and tax, and to clear and perfect their said accounts and diligence done by them relating thereto between now and the days underwritten, namely: these subcollectors for the shires south of the River Spey between now and 20 February instant, and the subcollectors for the shires north of the River Spey between now and 1 May next without further delay, that thereby it may be established who has paid and who has not and where the fault and deficiency is. With certification to the subcollectors that if they fail they shall be compelled to pay the whole loan and tax laid on the shires whereof they are subcollectors without any allowance or deduction whatsoever to be granted of any disbursements for levy money, transport money or any other cause. And also the said estates hereby ordain and command all heritors and others liable for payment of loan and tax who have not yet paid the same to make payment thereof or suspend between now and the days respectively above-written to the subcollectors of their shires, that the subcollectors may more clearly clear their accounts and report their diligence at the time and in manner before ordained. With certification to the heritors and others liable in payment of the loan and tax that if they fail they shall be compelled to pay their whole loan and tax not yet paid without deduction of levy money and transport money either for horse or foot or any other deduction appointed by the act of convention to be granted to timeous payers. And further, to the effect that it may be seen to the estates of parliament that the valuations of the several shires are made according to the order prescribed by the convention of estates, they therefore ordain and command the commissioners and valuers for all the shires of the kingdom nominated and appointed by the said act of convention for valuation of their said shires to bring and produce to the collector general and his deputes between now and the days respectively above-mentioned all the valuations of their shires and parishes, according to the said act of convention, namely: these valuers for the shires south of the River Spey between now and 20 February instant, and these for the shires north of the River Spey between now and 1 May next, under the pain of rebellion and of putting them to the horn, and if they fail, to denounce and escheat etc. And because there are some shires and persons that question the payment of their loan and tax unless they get deduction therein of levy money and transport money for the horse and foot put out by them in the second levy, which desire the estates find groundless and unreasonable, the same not being sought nor granted to these who have already paid their loan and tax for the horse or foot put out by them in the second levy, and so is far less due to such as have not yet paid their loan and tax, the estates, for clearing hereof, find and declare that there is no deduction of transport money or levy money due to be granted off the loan and tax for the horse or foot put out in the second levies, and therefore they discharge simply the seeking or granting of any deduction thereof in the payment of the loan and tax. And so that none may pretend ignorance anent the premises, they ordain this act to be printed and published by sound of trumpet at the market cross of Edinburgh and by messengers of arms at the head burghs of each shires of the kingdom.
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Anent the supplication given in to the estates of parliament by John Jossie and David Wilkie, owners of the good ship called The Robert in Leith and James Downie, skipper in name of the mariners thereof, and John Butcher, merchant of the said ship, showing that the ship being freighted and laden with salt bound to London was upon [...] January last necessitated by a storm, for preservation of the vessel and mariners' lives, to commit themselves to the mercy of the enemy at Scarborough Castle, being driven in there by stress of weather, where their goods and persons were seized upon as enemies to his majesty and cast in prison, where they remain, and all hearing of their innocence is denied to them by the governor of Scarborough and other officers and magistrates there unless they should procure a warrant from the parliament of England for redelivery to those in Scarborough of a ship of war which in a similar manner was driven in by the same stress of weather upon that same day to Hartlepool with all the mariners and others who were on board. And the said mariners in the ship called The Robert of Leith, having endeavoured to have obtained a mutual relief both of men and ships but being altogether frustrated in respect that the governor of Hartlepool has dismissed the persons taken in the ships pertaining to Scarborough to the commissioners of parliament at Newcastle and the commissioners have sent them up to the parliament to be punished as pirates, whereby the mariners and skipper of the Scottish ship at Scarborough and cargo thereof are likely to suffer the same risk of their lives and goods unless present remedy be provided, and therefore desiring the estates of parliament not only to write their letters of recommendation to their commissioners at London but also to desire the English commissioners here to write a similar letter of recommendation to the parliament of England, signifying to them the estate and condition of the business as is aforesaid, whereby the lives of the mariners and skipper now in captivity at Scarborough and the merchants' goods may be under protection, and to take such other course relating thereto as the estates in the deepest of their wisdom shall think fittest, as the said supplication purports. Which supplication being reported in audience of the parliament from the committee appointed for bills and supplications, and the same with the desire thereof being heard and considered by the estates of parliament, they grant the desire thereof and ordain the letter of recommendation to be drawn up in favour of the supplicants from the estates of parliament to their commissioners at London to the effect before desired; which letter they ordain to be subscribed by [John Lindsay, earl of Crawford Lindsay], the president of the parliament. As also the estates of parliament ordain William [Hamilton], earl of Lanark, John [Elphinstone], lord Balmerino, Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston, Sir Adam Hepburn of Humbie, Sir John Smith [of Grotehill], provost of Edinburgh, and Mr Robert Barclay, provost of Irvine, to speak with the English commissioners for their recommendation in favour of the supplicants to the parliament of England to the effect before desired.
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Anent the supplication given in to the estates of parliament by John Wood, esquire, showing that by malicious information given to the parliament of England his jewels, plate and all the moveables of his chamber were seized upon unwarrantably, contrary to the order of parliament and the liberty of loyal Scotsmen; in acknowledgement of which abrupt usage, the parliament of England and the Scottish commissioners at London were pleased to grant him favourable countenance and pass, and for restitution of his goods or value thereof exceeding £1,500 sterling. He has been formerly neglected and not received that satisfactory justice that might be expected by a loyal countryman, in no way a delinquent nor papist. He was forced to have recourse to the estates of parliament for remedy, and therefore desiring the estates to recommend his just desires to their commissioners at London by letter, with such instructions as the estates shall think fit in such form and manner as may best obtain redress to the supplicant and prevent similar inconveniences. Which supplication being reported in audience of the parliament from the committee appointed for bills and supplications, and the same with the desire thereof being heard and considered by the estates of parliament, they grant the desire thereof and ordain a letter of recommendation to be drawn up from the estates of parliament in favour of the said supplicant to their commissioners at London to the effect before desired, and they ordain the same letter to be subscribed by [John Lindsay, earl of Crawford Lindsay], president of parliament. As also the estates of parliament ordain William [Hamilton], earl of Lanark, John [Elphinstone], lord Balmerino, Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston, Sir Adam Hepburn of Humbie, Sir John Smith [of Grotehill], provost of Edinburgh, and Mr Robert Barclay, provost of Irvine, to speak with the English commissioners for their recommendation in favour of the supplicant to the parliament of England to the effect before desired.