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The estates of parliament, taking into their consideration the supplication of Mr Thomas Henderson, secretary to [Alexander Leslie], earl of Leven, lord general, and clerk to the committee residing with the Scottish army in England, desiring that order may be given for adjusting his accounts and giving him satisfaction of so much of his arrears according to his establishment in his respective charges as the parliament should judge expedient, and to declare the remainder thereof to be a public debt to be satisfied to the supplicant, the said estates do hereby seriously recommend the supplicant, with his supplication and desire thereof above-mentioned, to the committee with the army, to give order for adjusting the supplicant's accounts and giving him satisfaction for so much of his arrears according to his establishment in his respective charges as that committee shall judge expedient, and declaring the remainder which shall not be paid to be a just and public debt to be satisfied to the supplicant as the committee shall think fit.