The estates of parliament, taking into their consideration the report of that committee appointed for considering the ways of payment to Thomas Cunningham and James Weir, factors in Campvere, of the sums indebted to them by the estates for the public use, together with their supplication showing that after four months' attendance on the committee for monies for getting the accounts of the prices of the ammunition and arms furnished by them to this kingdom in its greatest straits heard and fitted, their said accounts were heard and adjusted and that the sum of £99,355 9s 4d Scots was then found due and indebted to them by the estates of the kingdom, with the annualrent thereof until the payment, over and above 17,268 dollars, which was also acclaimed by them according to the custom of their employment, besides great quantities of powder and match sent by them to Newcastle and yet unsatisfied; and therefore desiring that some present effectual course may be provided how the supplicants shall be paid of what is owing to them according to their security and public faith, as the report and supplication respectively bears. The said estates find the aforesaid sum of £99,355 9s 4d Scots, with the annualrent thereof until the payment, to be due and indebted by this kingdom to the supplicants above-named since 31 July 1646; as also find that by act of parliament of 1 January 1647 there is precept and assignment granted to the said Thomas Cunningham for payment to him of the sum of £3,641 17s sterling to be paid to him out of the first £50,000 sterling of the last £200,000 sterling due by the kingdom of England to this kingdom; and herewith also the estates of parliament, considering the supplicants' present necessity, with their ready and timeous furnishing and advancing of the aforesaid arms and ammunition to this kingdom, they ordain the sum of £5,000 sterling, over and above the aforesaid £3,641 17s sterling above-specified contained in the former precept, to be paid to the said Thomas Cunningham and James Weir out of the last £100,000 sterling due by the parliament of England to this kingdom, and that towards the payment and to an account of the aforesaid sum of £99,355 9s 4d Scots, with the annualrent thereof since July 1646 and until the payment, indebted by the estates of this kingdom to the supplicants in manner aforesaid. And for this effect the estates of parliament do hereby assign and convey to the said Thomas Cunningham and James Weir as much of the aforesaid last £100,000 sterling due by the parliament of England to this kingdom as will satisfy and pay them of the said sum of £5,000 sterling, and declare that the discharge to be given upon the receipt of the said sum by the said Thomas Cunningham and James Weir (or any having their warrant and power for that effect) with this present act shall be a sufficient liberation and exoneration for that sum to the payers and to all others who are or may be concerned therein.
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The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the petition of John Allardice of that ilk, for himself and on behalf of Elizabeth and Helen Allardice, his sisters, showing that the late James Allardice, their father, was cruelly murdered by these wicked and merciless Irish rebels and his whole estate and living burnt and wasted by them that no rent thereof has been received since then, and that by the death of his late father his whole estate and living with the marriage of the supplicant wards in the king's majesty's hands, and therefore desiring that the gift of the said ward and marriage may be conveyed gratis without any composition in favour of the supplicants, to be employed for their maintenance and education, and the rest of the benefit thereof to be applied for provision of the said Elizabeth and Helen Allardice, as the supplication bears; and herewith also considering that by the act of parliament in 1640 the ward, marriage and non-entry of those who should happen to be killed in the public service is ordained to be conveyed gratis for the use of their children, their education and provision, the said estates of parliament, in consideration that the said late James Allardice of that ilk was cruelly murdered by the said Irish rebels and his whole estate burnt and wasted by them as is aforesaid, do hereby ordain and give warrant to [John Lindsay], earl of Crawford Lindsay, treasurer principal, and to the treasurer depute and other lords of exchequer to pass and issue the gift of the ward of the aforesaid lands, living and estate of Allardice, with the marriage of the said John Allardice, now of that ilk, to and in favour of the said supplicants gratis, without any composition to be given for that, to the effect the benefit of the same may be first employed for maintenance and education of them, according to their ranks and qualities, and that the surplus thereof may be applied for provision of the said Elizabeth and Helen Allardice according to the act of parliament above-mentioned, for the which this act shall be a sufficient warrant.
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The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the report of the committee for the monies anent the desire of the petition of John, earl of Lauderdale for payment of the sums due to him and his late father by the public and referred to that committee by the parliament, they find that in March 1643 there was lent by [John Maitland], late earl of Lauderdale for supply of the Scottish army in Ireland £6,000 Scots and that the same, with the annualrent thereof since, is unpaid; as also that in March 1644 there was likewise lent by him for the use of the public the sum of another £6,000 Scots, which, with the annualrent thereof since then, is also owing; and likewise find that in December 1644 there was advanced by the late earl of Lauderdale for supplying a present necessity at that time the sum of £6,000 Scots payable upon demand, and for the which sum the earls [John Lindsay, earl of] Crawford [Lindsay] and [William Hamilton, earl of] Lanark stand jointly bound with the earl of Lauderdale, and that this sum, with the annualrent thereof, is yet unpaid, extending the three principal sums above-written and annualrents thereof respectively at Candlemas [2 February] 1647 in total to the sum of £22,920 Scots. Item, they find that by an act of the committee for common burdens there is £300 sterling allowed to [Mary Sutton], late countess of Home, mother-in-law to the said John, now earl of Lauderdale, for the loss of her household stuff and other losses sustained by her by the burning of the house of Douglas, to be paid with the rest of the losses of the kingdom; which whole sums respectively before rehearsed the estates of parliament declare to be a public debt due and payable to the said John, now earl of Lauderdale, and do hereby ordain the same sums to be paid to him as follows without deduction of any part thereof to be lent by him as borrowed money to the use of the public, namely: they ordain the aforesaid whole sum of £22,920 Scots money, with annualrent thereof until the payment, to be repaid to the said John, now earl of Lauderdale out of the readiest monies pertaining to the public within the kingdom of Scotland, or in the option of the earl of Lauderdale ordain him to be satisfied and paid of the same out of the first £100,000 sterling due and payable by the parliament and kingdom of England to the kingdom of Scotland and not assigned otherwise. And for this effect the estates do hereby assign and convey to the earl of Lauderdale as much of the first £100,000 sterling (not assigned as said is) as will satisfy and pay him of the aforesaid sum of £22,920 Scots money, with the annualrent thereof until the payment, and declare his discharge upon the receipt of the same in whole or in part to be a sufficient warrant, liberation and exoneration relating thereto to the payers thereof in Scotland or England in whole or in part for as much, and this act to be as sufficient as if there were particular precepts drawn upon the receivers and intromitters with the public dues in Scotland or treasurers in England appointed or to be appointed to pay the said first £100,000 sterling, and no warrant to be drawn after the date hereof to have preference before this. And also the estates ordain the aforesaid sum of £300 sterling modified to the late countess of Home for her losses above-specified to be likewise paid to the said earl of Lauderdale with the rest of the losses of the kingdom as is appointed and ordained by the aforesaid act of the committee for the common burdens whereupon this sum is acclaimed.