The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the petition of Lieutenant Colonel William Hamilton showing that Major General Crawford at the time of his death was justly indebted to him for £131 sterling upon account, and that seeing there was no judicatory sitting that has power to determine so great a sum and that the supplicant is soon leaving the kingdom and his witnesses are soon to remove into various remote parts, both in this kingdom and in England, whereby the supplicant is likely to be deprived of the benefit of their testimony, therefore desiring the parliament to give authority to the commissaries of Edinburgh, or any other who shall be thought fitting, to hear and determine anent the aforesaid sum, as the supplication subscribed by the supplicant and by Cornelius Crawford, tutor to Laurence Crawford, the sole heir of the said late Major General Crawford, purports and bears. The said estates of parliament do hereby grant power, authority and warrant to the commissaries of Edinburgh to be judges to the action to be intended before them for the sum above-mentioned, notwithstanding the same sum be greater and of another nature than is competent to be pursued before that judicatory. With power to the said commissaries of Edinburgh to hear, consider and discuss the aforesaid action with the defences and answers hereupon to be given in or alleged by either of the parties relating thereto, and to admit and receive all lawful and legal probation that shall be used by either party in the said matter, and thereafter to advise the cause and probation thereof, and accordingly to give out and pronounce decreet and sentence in the said matter. And for this effect the estates grant dispensation to the said commissaries of Edinburgh to sit and decide in the said action notwithstanding of the sitting of the parliament and of the holiday and close time of vacation, for the which the estates declare this act shall be a sufficient warrant.
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The estates of parliament grant free pass and liberty to the earl of Dumfries with such servants as ordinarily travel in his company to go to England for his private and particular affairs there and to such parts and places in that kingdom as his business requires without trouble, stop or impediment to be made to him relating thereto in his going or returning as his business shall occasion, for the which this act shall be a warrant.
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The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the petition of [John Erskine], earl of Mar, the lairds [Sir George Stirling of] Keir, [Murray of] Polmaise, [Sir Archibald Stirling of] Garden and William Graham of Hilton bearing that in the first expedition to England in 1640 they, at the desire of the heritors of the shires of Stirling and Clackmannan, did borrow the sum of 5,000 merks Scots for payment of the officers who were then employed for the use of the said shires and for payment of the whole officers of the regiment lifted out of these shires of their 40 days' loan, and that they have paid the annualrent thereof ever since and are now distressed for the principal sum, notwithstanding of a decreet of the committee for common burdens in 1642 ordaining the whole heritors of the shires to meet and stent themselves for relief and payment to the supplicants of the principal sum and annualrents thereof, who are thereupon charged and denounced, and yet the supplicants lie under the burden of the sum and annualrents, and therefore desiring letters of horning charging the committees of war of the sheriffdoms of Stirling and Clackmannan to stent the whole heritors of the said shires for the aforesaid principal sum of 5,000 merks and bygone annualrents thereof (seeing to charge the whole heritors to meet and stent would put the supplicants to a great deal of charges); as also desiring a warrant for sending a party of horse through the said shires for gathering in the said stent after the same is set down by the committees of war, as the supplication bears. The said estates of parliament do hereby ordain and give warrant to the committees of war of the shires of Stirling and Clackmannan and quorums thereof to meet and convene and to lay on the aforesaid principal sum of 5,000 merks with the bygone annualrents thereof equally and proportionally upon the whole heritors of the said two shires, according to the valuation of the same shires, and thereupon to set down a stent roll containing every separate heritor's part and proportion of the aforesaid principal sum and annualrents thereof equally and proportionally according to the valuation aforesaid, including the supplicants' own proportional parts, according to the said valuation, to the effect the supplicants may be thereafter accordingly paid and relieved of the said principal sum and annualrents and of the bond granted by them relating thereto, with the letters and charges used and executed against them thereupon, deducting their own proportional parts, according to the said valuation. And ordain letters to be directed hereupon charging the committees of war of Stirling and Clackmannan to the effect before rehearsed, and also for payment and relief to the supplicants of the principal sum and annualrents respectively aforesaid, according to the stent roll to be set down by the said committees of war.
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The estates of parliament, taking into their consideration the desire of the supplication of Major Thomas Weir craving payment of the sum of 600 merks due to him by an act of the committee of estates of 17 December 1644; as also craving payment for his service as major of [William Hamilton], earl of Lanark's regiment by the space of 12 months and for his service in Ireland as a captain lieutenant in Colonel Robert Home's regiment by the space of 19 months; and that the parliament would ordain John Aitchison, keeper of the magazine, to redeliver to the supplicant the bond given by him to the said John upon the receipt of 1,000 weight of powder, 2,000 weight of match and 1,000 weight of ball sent with the supplicant to Dumfries for furnishing that part of the country; and that the supplicant should either report and deliver to John Aitchison bonds of those of the country that should buy the said ammunition or then should pay to him the prices thereof contained in the said bond, as the supplication bears. The said estates remit and recommend to the committee for the monies to see and consider the instructions of the aforesaid supplication concerning the aforesaid sum of 600 merks and bond above-specified, with the supplicant's service within the kingdom, and accordingly to ordain the aforesaid either to be redelivered to the supplicant or he discharged simply thereof as the committee shall think just; as also to provide and take some effectual course for the supplicant's speedy payment of the said sum of 600 merks.
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Forasmuch as [Sir James Lockhart of] Lee and [Mr William Cochrane], laird of Cowdoun declared that they have agreed with Allan Dunlop, younger, of Craig that he shall furnish 900 bolls of meal to the regiments of the earl of Lothian, Lord Sinclair and laird of Lawers in Ireland at Carrickfergus with all diligence, wind and weather serving, for the price of 11 merks for each boll and 6s 8d for the transport money of each boll to Carrickfergus, the estates always bearing the sea risk; likewise the said Lord Lee and laird of Cowdoun, personally present, undertook and promised that the said Allan Dunlop should furnish the aforesaid 900 bolls of meal in manner and at the times above-specified, over and above the 100 bolls of meal formerly appointed to be furnished at Stranraer and which 100 bolls of meal are ordained to be paid out of the first month's maintenance of the sheriffdom of Wigtown and stewartry of Kirkcudbright at the rates of these parts. Therefore the estates of parliament ordain [Sir John Wemyss of Bogie], commissary-general, and his deputes and give hereby warrant to him and them to pay and deliver to the said Allan Dunlop the prices above-written of the said 900 bolls of meal at 11 merks for each boll and 6s 8d for the transport money thereof out of the first end of the first month's maintenance of the sheriffdoms of Ayr and Renfrew, and to pay the said Allan Dunlop completely of the price of the said meal and transport money thereof; and also ordain [Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw], sheriff of Galloway, to pay the prices of the former 100 bolls of meal with the transport money of the regiments from Stranraer to Carrickfergus in Ireland, and ordain him to be repaid thereof upon account out of the first month's maintenance of the sheriffdom of Wigtown or stewartry of Kirkcudbright. And also the estates ordain 500 bolls of the aforesaid meal to be presently sent to Ireland with the earl of Lothian and Lord Sinclair's regiments to Carrickfergus, and ordain the other 400 bolls to be given to the laird of Lawers' regiment when they shall go to Ireland, for the which this act shall be a warrant.
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The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the report of that committee appointed by them for considering the supplication of the Scots held captive at Algiers, they ordain a letter to be written from the parliament to their commissioners at London to deal earnestly with the two houses of the parliament of England for advancing £4,000 sterling out of the first and readiest of the brotherly assistance yet due by the parliament of England to this kingdom for relief of the supplicants. And, for the better effectuating hereof, ordain that committee appointed by the parliament to meet with the English commissioners now residing here to represent the desire aforesaid to the said English commissioners, that they may recommend the same to the two houses of parliament of England; and also ordain a letter to be written to the commissioners at London to deal earnestly with the parliament of England that they would give warrant and command to their agent who is to deal for the freedom of the English that he would also negotiate for forbearance to the Scottish nation, upon the condition that the kingdom shall, after sight and advisement of the articles of agreement, be content to accept the same. And likewise the estates do hereby recommend Mr Alexander Riddoch, supplicant, who has suffered long imprisonment in Algiers and now lately the loss of his wife and family by the visitation [of the plague] this last year to the committee of monies, that he may presently have paid to him £100 sterling for his extraordinary losses and charges in agenting the relief of his fellow prisoners and 300 dollars for his own ransom, for the which this act shall be a sufficient warrant.
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The estates of parliament ordain a letter to be written to their commissioners at London in favour of John Houston, one of his majesty's esquires, for interceding with the parliament of England for payment to him of the bygone arrears of his pension, which was accordingly drawn up, read and approved in parliament.
The estates ordain a letter to be written from the parliament of Scotland to the parliament of England in favour of these officers who have served in the parliament of England's service, that they may be paid of their bygone arrears, which was accordingly drawn up, read and approved in parliament.
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The estates of parliament, taking into their consideration the supplication of the noblemen, barons and burgesses who have given bond to Sir William Dick for 200,000 merks Scots and have accordingly paid their proportional parts thereof, desiring that so much of the £50,000 sterling of the second £200,000 sterling payable by the kingdom of England may be assured and allowed for their satisfaction and relief, and herewith also considering that the aforesaid 200,000 merks is a public debt, they therefore statute and ordain that the last £10,000 sterling of the aforesaid £50,000 sterling of the second £200,000 sterling payable by the parliament of England to this kingdom shall be allowed and destined for satisfaction and relief of the said noblemen, barons and burgesses who are bound for the aforesaid 200,000 merks and have accordingly paid their proportional parts thereof; and for this effect the estates do hereby assure, allow and assign the £10,000 sterling above-mentioned for their satisfaction and relief aforesaid, and find and declare that the same sum of £10,000 shall be in no other way employed nor disposed upon but for the relief and satisfaction of the said 200,000 merks Scots. And in case satisfaction and relief shall not be purchased by the order above-written, the said estates in that case ordain the same to be paid out of the first £10,000 sterling of the second £200,000 sterling payable by the parliament of England to the estates of this kingdom.
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The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the supplication of James Campbell of Lawers, showing that the late Sir Mungo Campbell of Lawers, knight, his father, having by warrant of the estates levied and transported a regiment of foot to Ireland in March 1642 where they continued in the service until March 1644, since which time they have been employed in the service of this kingdom and of the kingdom of England; and that the committee of estates by their act of 23 May 1644 did declare that they would restore the said regiment to their said service in Ireland whenever they could be spared from the service of the public here, and that their interest in Ireland for their bygone service and in time coming should be as entire to them as any other regiments that are in actual service there, and that they should be on an equal footing with the rest of the regiments there and immediately thereafter transported, and no other regiment in this kingdom should go from this before them in that service; and in case the same should fall weak in the service of this kingdom, that they would make them up as strong as they come from Ireland and to transport them with competent arms on the charges of the public, as the said act bears; and therefore desiring that since it has pleased the estates to appoint the supplicant colonel of the aforesaid regiment in place of his late father, and that they have reformed the army of this kingdom whereby they are dismissed from the service to restore the said regiment to their service in Ireland and to make them up as strong as they came from there and to transport them with complete arms upon the charges of the public, according to the said act, and to fit their regiment accounts and that some course may be taken for their satisfaction of some part of their arrears, and the rest to be assured as the parliament shall think fit, or otherwise to continue them in the service of this kingdom and to approve and renew the aforesaid act of the committee of estates, as the supplication more fully bears. The said estates of parliament ratify and renew the aforesaid act of the committee of estates made in favour of the laird of Lawers and his regiment, and declare that they will restore the aforesaid regiment to their service in Ireland and recruit that regiment and transport them with complete arms to Ireland, and ordain all this to be done by the authority of the parliament and upon the expenses of the public; and when the said regiment shall come from that place where they presently lie, the estates ordain provision to be made by the public for their maintenance from there and on their way to Ireland; and ordain [Robert Balfour], lord [Balfour of] Burleigh, [Sir John Wemyss], laird of Bogie and Mr John Hay to hear and fit the accounts of the said regiment and report the same with their opinion how they may be best satisfied and paid to the parliament.†