Forasmuch as the committee of estates, having received information from their commissioners at London of some jealousies conceived by many members of both houses of the parliament of England upon perusal of the letters found in the king and [George Digby], lord Digby's cabinets, which did reflect upon some persons in the Scottish army as if there had been underhand dealing between them and the king, and the lords Montgomery, Livingston and Sinclair being the persons mentioned in the said letters, they did write to [Alexander Leslie, earl of Leven], lord general, his excellency, to command the said lords Livingston and Sinclair, who were then with the army, to proceed into this kingdom and appear before the parliament for clearing themselves thereof, and ordained the Lord Montgomery, who was then at Glasgow, to be present also at parliament for the effect aforesaid. And accordingly the said lords Montgomery, Livingston and Sinclair having made their addresses here and for some time waited for trial, a committee was appointed to take consideration of the said intercepted letters and to examine the said noblemen, who having accordingly met and interrogated and examined them and every one of the three upon oath in every particular of their carriage and of all papers or addresses which passed between them and any persons in the king's armies, they made report thereof to the honourable estates in parliament, who, taking the same into their consideration and being well advised, they cannot find that the said lords Montgomery, Livingston and Sinclair or any of them have had any secret dealing with the enemy to the prejudice of the cause or contrary to the articles of military discipline, and therefore exonerate and free them of any challenge which can be grounded upon any of the aforesaid intercepted letters, and allow them to proceed to and attend their several charges in the army and places of parliament respectively.
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Forasmuch as the estates of parliament, taking into their consideration the supplication of James Campbell of Lawers and of the officers and soldiers of his regiment showing that the treasurer of the army having, according to an act of parliament made in their favour, received the accounts of the said regiment for the arrears due to them since their coming from Ireland, find he cannot fit the same presently by reason that some books belonging to Commissary Livingstone and John Denholme are lying at Edinburgh, without which the accounts cannot be perfectly cleared, and therefore desiring that the treasurer of the Scots army should be ordained, so soon as the aforesaid books can be, had to fit and subscribe the accounts of the aforesaid regiment; as also to ordain the third or fourth part of the arrears of the regiment since their coming from Ireland to be paid to the officers and soldiers out of the first and readiest of the fines and penalties of the lairds [Sir George Stirling of] Keir, [James Seaton of] Touch, [John Chisholm of] Cromlix, Orchill and Innerdovan, as the supplication purports. The said estates ordain the treasurer of the armies to account with the aforesaid regiment, officers and soldiers thereof, for the whole arrears due to the regiment since their coming from Ireland; as also ordain [Sir Adam Hepburn of Humbie], commissary-general and treasurer of the armies, to make payment to the officers and soldiers of the aforesaid regiment of the fourth part of the whole arrears that shall be found due to them after account, for the which this act shall be a sufficient warrant.
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Anent the supplication given in to the estates of parliament, whereof the tenor follows: The humble supplication of the surviving soldiers, widows and orphans of the earl of Crawford's regiment, presented to the estates of parliament. May it please your lordships to take to your wise and serious consideration the sad condition of your petitioners, who, from the first day they were listed in your service, have been faithful to the public and an example to others in all the important services they were called to in England, as the particulars are well-known. So when they were recalled home for the necessities of this kingdom, they were still in employment until that unhappy day in which the sins of the land and their misfortune paid their arrears for the most part, lessened their debt, increased our burdens and makes our desires the more just and seasonable at this time. The living will plead for themselves, and the need the land has of their service will not permit your lords to forget them, but the merit of the dead will have no memorial and the widows' and fatherless' bill will be crushed in the crude throng of so many petitioners, unless the conscience of your calling and duty move your lords to regard in the first place the manifold deservings of those who have lost their lives for the cause or who are left without any further charge or hope except what your lords will afford us in answer to our bill, as the supplication bears. Which supplication being read in audience of the parliament and the same, with the desire thereof, taken into consideration by the estates of parliament, they, in regard of the known good service done by the regiment above-written known to the parliament, do hereby ordain [Sir Adam Hepburn of Humbie], commissary-general and treasurer of the armies, to account with the supplicants anent the whole bygone arrears due to the aforesaid regiment, and after account the estates by this act give precept, order and warrant to the said commissary-general, treasurer of the armies, and his deputes to make payment to the said surviving soldiers of the aforesaid regiment and to the widows and orphans of those of that regiment who are killed in the public service of the whole bygone arrears, which, after account, shall be found due and unpaid to the said regiment, for the which this act shall be a warrant.
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The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the opinion of the committee regarding Thomas Cunningham and James Weir's business, they, in respect that the verifications and instructions of the said Thomas Cunningham and James Weir's accounts are not produced with their accounts and by reason of the present absence thereof, do hereby remit and seriously recommend their supplication and account to the committee of monies, with power to them to revise the said account and instructions thereof and to allow and disallow the same, and after closing of the account to find out ways for payment to the supplicants of the monies and others committed to their charge as they shall think fit.
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The estates of parliament taking into their consideration the desire of the supplication of Sir William Baillie of Lamington, craving that they would dispense with him for lending of any money and to discharge and rescind the decreet and ordinance, if any be already given, against him for that effect and declare him free thereof with all that has followed or may follow thereupon, together with the report of the committee to whom the supplication was remitted, they do hereby rescind and discharge simply the decreet and ordinance given by the committee for borrowing of money decreeing the supplicant to lend the sum mentioned therein for the use of the public, and declare him free thereof for all bygone borrowing and of all that has followed or may follow upon the same decreet for ever, for the which this act shall be a sufficient warrant.
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The estates of parliament taking into their consideration the desire of the supplication of Sir Ludovic Houston of that ilk, craving that they will dispense with him for lending money to the public and rescind the decreet already given against him by the committee ordaining him to lend the sum specified therein for the use of the public, with the report of the committee to whom this supplication was remitted, they do hereby rescind and discharge simply the aforesaid decreet and ordinance decreeing the supplicant to lend the sum specified therein for the use of the public, and declare him free thereof for all bygone borrowing and of all that has followed or may follow upon the same decreet for ever, for the which this act shall be a sufficient warrant.
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The estates of parliament taking into their consideration the desire of Mr Robert Farquhar [of Mounie], on behalf of the widow and of the heir and executors of the late Thomas Buck, burgess of Aberdeen, craving that the bond given by the deceased for payment to the public of the sum of 1,000 merks of the† £1,000 which he was decreed to lend for the use of the public and whereof 500 merks is already paid, in respect that 500 merks which is paid is a proportion answerable to his means and so his widow, heir and executors should be free of the bond given by him for the other 1,000 merks, the said estates remit and recommend the aforesaid desire to the committee of the monies for the north, and in the meantime discharge the execution used upon the said bond, and ordain the said committee to do therein as they after hearing of the parties and consideration of the aforesaid desire shall think expedient.
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The estates of parliament taking into their consideration the desire of David Beaton of Creich, on behalf of George Clerk in Gladine, craving that the decreet given against him by the committee of estates decreeing him to lend the sum contained therein for the use of the public and that the horse and troopers which are lying upon the said George Clerk might be removed, they rescind and simply discharge the decreet and ordinance given against the said George Clerk decreeing him to lend the sum specified therein for the use of the public, and declare him free thereof for all bygone borrowing and of all that has followed or may follow upon the said decreet for ever, and in the meantime the estates ordain the horse and troopers that are lying on the said George Clerk to be removed from him, for the which this act shall be a warrant.
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The estates of parliament remit and recommend the supplications presented to them by Mr John Redford for the presbytery of Alford and his own parish of Kinbattoch to the committee appointed for the north, and hereby give power and warrant to the said committee, after just trial of their distress, to give each of them a proportional allowance for their subsistence and that their losses in proper goods and stipends shall be accounted as borrowed monies to the use of the public until it shall please the Lord to make way for full payment thereof, that their wives and children be not altogether frustrated of that which their husbands and parents have by honest means provided for their maintenance, for the which this act shall be a warrant.