The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the desire of the supplication of Christiane Forret, sister to the late Doctor Robert Forret, craving that some course might be taken for her payment and satisfaction of the sum of £3,903 6s 8d Scots money due by the public to her late brother and to which she has right from him, whereby she may in some sort be enabled to live and give some contentment to his creditors, as the supplication purports; they remit and do hereby seriously recommend the supplicant with the desire of her supplication and her distressed estate and condition to the committee for the monies, to be taken into consideration by them for the supplicant's subsistence and satisfaction as they shall think fit.
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Anent the supplication given in to the estates of parliament, whereof the tenor follows: To the right honourable the high court of parliament, humbly shows I, your servant, James, earl of Annandale, that whereas I, out of weakness and surprised by a party, was unhappily misled in the general defection of the country to those ways which thereafter did occasion a great amount of sorrow and grief to me, so that I resolved to omit no means to free myself of them and for that end had addressed myself to Lieutenant General David Leslie, who had the command and power at that time, and upon his word of honour I came off, having assurance of him of absolute immunity, as he himself has more fully expressed by his several letters to both committees of estates and processes; and as my sense of my escape led me to leave that way, so my earnest care has been since to testify the same to the world, and for that end I addressed myself to the church and have given them full satisfaction; and I am now humbly to supplicate your lords that you would be pleased that I may have the benefit of the lieutenant general's word of honour and parole to me for my perfect freedom, and I shall make it appear (by the blessing of God) that nothing shall be so dear to me as the advancement of the covenant and good cause and prove myself a faithful countryman, and your lordships' answer. Which supplication above-mentioned, with a letter to the parliament from Lieutenant General David Leslie of 5 November last bearing that he had engaged his honour and parole to the earl of Annandale for the security of his life, honour and fortune the time of his bringing off of the earl from the course of the rebellion, being read in audience of the parliament, and the same, with the desires of the aforesaid supplication and letter, being heard and at length considered by the estates of parliament, they, in regard of the aforesaid letter directed to them by the said Lieutenant General David Leslie, declare the said James, earl of Annandale, supplicant, free and liberated of all fine for the cause above-mentioned, as also declare the sum of £1,000 sterling formerly advanced by him to be a public debt, and ordain the committee of monies to give bond to the said earl for the same sum and annualrents thereof as of borrowed money for the use of the public, for the which this act shall be a sufficient warrant.
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The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the supplication presented to them by Kenneth MacKenzie of Gairloch, Rorie MacKenzie of Dachmalonak, James MacKenzie, brother to [Sir John MacKenzie], laird of Tarbat, Colin MacKenzie of Tarvie and Rorie MacKenzie, servant to the laird of Tarbat, desiring that the justice and his deputes be discharged of all further proceeding in the criminal pursuits already intended or to be intended against the supplicants at the instance of the king's advocate and Donald MacLeod, elder, of Assynt and Donald MacLeod, younger thereof, his son, for themselves and as masters and assignees constituted by their tenants and Mr John Ross, minister at Assynt, for certain crimes of hostility therein libelled, allegedly committed against them by the supplicants for the reasons and causes mentioned in the said supplication, as the same supplication more fully purports. The said estates of parliament discharge the justice and his deputes of all granting and giving out of any criminal letters against the supplicants above-named and of all proceeding against them upon any letters already given out for any deeds done by them since their entry to the rebellion or in relation thereto, and the estates declare that this shall in no way be extended to deeds done by the supplicants before their entry to the rebellion or since their coming off, but that letters may be granted thereupon against them.
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Anent the supplication given in to the estates of parliament, whereof the tenor follows: To the honourable and high court of parliament, Major General Middleton humbly shows that according to the commission and instructions he received from the committee of estates for taking off the rebels, he has given remissions and assurance to many of them for life and fortune, yet it is complained by many that these remissions are not regarded but many of them are proceeded against for deeds done at the time of the rebellion and in relation thereto as if they had not remissions; therefore, and seeing what he did therein was by authority from the committee of estates, he humbly desires this honourable court of parliament to take this into consideration and to provide that those to whom he has given remissions may receive no prejudice since the public faith of the kingdom is engaged thereby. 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 find the aforesaid desire above-written of the supplication reasonable and declare that those to whom General Major Middleton has given remissions shall receive no prejudice but the same shall be punctually observed to them seeing the public faith of the kingdom is engaged, the said persons always having enacted themselves according to the tenor of their remissions and instructions granted to the general major for that effect by the committee of estates; otherwise if the persons aforesaid have not enacted themselves before the time appointed by the committee, then they are not to be capable of the benefit of the act unless their coming to enact themselves has been dispensed with by the committee aforesaid or the general major.
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The paper underwritten, whereof the tenor follows: The committee appointed by parliament for considering the particular losses recommended to them do humbly represent to the parliament that whilst they were about the discharge of what was committed to them, there occurred a particular which they conceive very prejudicial to the subjects and in no way useful or necessary either to the public or to the parties interested, namely: when commissions are given out for trying of losses, the reports of the trial are appointed to be registered, some whereof as they are drawn in the particular by those who are commissioners for the trial will take up the writing of 100 or 120 sheets of paper, of which sort one was before them this day, and it is hard to put the petitioner to the trouble of registering so long a report; and therefore it is the opinion of the committee that the parliament would appoint that only an abridgement of these reports be recorded containing the names of the parties who are sufferers and a summary of their losses and sufferings, and the principal report to be given back marked to the party, and that the parliament would either themselves or warrant this committee to set down a price to be paid for this registration as is done in comprisings; being publicly read in audience of the estates of parliament and the same being advised and considered by the estates of parliament, they agree to the opinion above-written of the aforesaid committee, and enact, ordain and appoint that there shall be only an abridgement of the aforesaid reports recorded, which shall contain the names of the parties who are sufferers and a summary of their losses and sufferings, and ordain the principal report to be given back to the party marked recorded as above. And also the estates of parliament give hereby warrant to the aforesaid committee to set down a price to be paid for the aforesaid recording of the said reports as is done in comprisings.