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The estates of parliament, having taken into their consideration the tenor of the supplication exhibited to them by Lieutenant General William Baillie of Letham, craving that his carriage at and before the unhappy battle at Kilsyth might be narrowly tried and examined and he accordingly exonerated or censured, and having appointed a committee for trying that matter, and the said committee having taken the exactest trial they could by the relation of the said Lieutenant General Baillie and by the declarations of the noblemen who were then present and of sundry officers, the said committee did represent to the parliament their humble opinion that the said Lieutenant General Baillie should be exonerated and that he may return and proceed to his charge in England for the service of his country; with the which report, the said estates being well and ripely advised, they do approve the same and find nothing in the carriage of the said Lieutenant General William Baillie at or before that battle at Kilsyth whereby he can be justly accused of infidelity or want of affection to his country and that he ought to be exonerated and acquitted of all challenge or imputation for the same and may return and proceed to his charge in England for service of his country and the good cause to which formerly he has been so faithful and serviceable.