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The estates of parliament, having heard the supplication of Lieutenant General Baillie bearing that he had received letters from [Alexander Leslie, earl of Leven], lord general, for repairing to his charge in England, and desiring the estates to take consideration and trial of his bygone service and carriage in the battle at Kilsyth and accordingly to grant him approbation that he may return to his aforesaid charge in England, and herewith also taking into their consideration the unhappy battle at Kilsyth, they nominate and appoint the earls [William Keith, earl] Marischal, [Alexander Montgomery, earl of] Eglinton, [William Cunningham, earl of] Glencairn, [John Kennedy, earl of] Cassilis and [John Hay], lord Yester for the noblemen; [Sir Archibald Johnston of] Wariston, the lairds [David Beaton of] Creich, [Sir William Scott of] Harden, [James MacDowall of] Garthland and [Sir William Forbes of] Craigievar for the barons; Mr Alexander Wedderburn [of Blackness], John Kennedy, Mr Robert Cunningham, Mr Robert Barclay and William Glendinning [of Gelstoun] for the burghs, with the general officers of the army, as a committee to whom (or any nine of them as the quorum, there being two of every estate) the estates give power to take into consideration and to try the carriage of the said Lieutenant General Baillie and of the whole officers that had charge of the army at Kilsyth and of the committee of estates present at that time and of the way and manner of the loss of that day and occasion thereof, and ordain the said committee or their quorum to report to the parliament what they find herein with their opinion relating thereto, that thereafter the parliament may take the same into their consideration as they think fit.