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Anent the supplication given in to the estates of parliament, now convened in the fourth 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, whereof the tenor follows: To the honourable estates of parliament, humbly shows your servant, James Graham, son to James Graham, sometime earl of Montrose, that where it is not unknown to your lordships in what evident danger I live in the castle of Edinburgh by reason of the pestilence which now rages there and in the whole town, whereof many are dead within the same house, and I being averse to this hazard, my minority does cry to your noble clemency and humbly beg that your lordships in your wisdom would provide for my delivery from this imminent danger and have me transferred to some place of security, and your honours' answer humbly I beseech, as the supplication bears. Which supplication being read in audience of parliament and the same, with the desire thereof, heard and considered by them, the said estates of parliament order the said James Graham, supplicant, to be delivered to [William Ramsay], earl of Dalhousie to be educated, [James Carnegie], lord Carnegie being cautioner for his good carriage and behaviour under the pain of £40,000.