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Forasmuch as the estates of parliament, having heard and considered the report of that committee appointed by them for hearing and considering the Earl Marischal's desires concerning the monies acclaimed by him as due to him by the public, together with the supplication of Sir William Forbes of Craigievar, craving that in regard of his possession of the house of Drum and maintaining the garrison therein by warrant from Lieutenant General David Leslie, the parliament would grant commission to him for uplifting [Sir Alexander Irvine], laird of Drum's rents lying adjacent to the house of Drum, which according to the valuation will not exceed 3,000 merks or thereby and that for his payment and subsistence of the debt due to him by the public, he being accountable to the estates for his commission, as the supplication and report respectively above-written more fully purports. The said estates, in respect of the extremity the Earl Marischal is brought to through the want of these monies and charges he has been at in the public service, besides the extraordinary losses he has suffered for his affection to the cause, which is not now to be taken to the estates' present consideration, ordain that for the said earl's present subsistence he have a commission granted to him for intromitting with and uplifting the rents of the lands of the barony of Drum belonging to the laird of Drum, which in the report are declared to be valued to 6,000 merks per year, with the possession of the house of Drum, and therefore the estates do hereby grant warrant and commission to the Earl Marischal to the effect aforesaid so far as concerns the house and lands of the barony of Drum, but in respect of the said Sir William Forbes of Craigievar's sufferings and of his present possession of the house of Drum, lands and barony thereof, the estates ordain that committee appointed for the north to provide to the said Sir William Forbes of Craigievar a sufficient garrison house and rent answerable to the desire of his supplication, and in the meantime until the same be done to him the estates have suspended and hereby suspend the said Earl Marischal's possession of the aforesaid house and lands of the barony of Drum, and ordain the said Sir William Forbes of Craigievar's possession thereof to be continued; and also the estates ordain [Sir Adam Hepburn of Humbie], commissary-general, and his deputes to account with the said Earl Marischal as colonel of his regiment in England and to put him on an equal footing with other colonels of the Scottish army in England, for the which this act shall be a sufficient warrant.