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The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the report of the committee for monies concerning the supplication of Mr Roger Mowat of Drumbreck, advocate, anent the monies due to him by the public, they find by the report that there is due and payable to him at Candlemas [2 February] last 1647 £7,733 6s 8d Scots, and ordain the same to be paid to him by the public, with annualrent thereof until the payment, and that some effectual way may be taken for that effect. And in the meantime the said estates do hereby grant public surety for payment thereof to the said Mr Roger Mowat, his heirs, executors or assignees and they hereby oblige the estates of the kingdom for that effect. And also the said estates of parliament by this act grant exemption to the said Mr Roger Mowat from payment of maintenance for his lands within the sheriffdom of Kincardine or Mearns in regard of the report of his losses seen and allowed, and, for the supplicant's assurance of the aforesaid exemption from payment of monthly maintenance for his lands within the sheriffdom of Kincardine, the said estates ordain the maintenance due and payable for the supplicant's lands in that shire to be accounted and allowed as a part of that sum of the maintenance of the said shire of which the payment is appointed by the parliament to be suspended in manner mentioned in the act of maintenance; and in respect hereof the estates do hereby discharge [Sir John Wemyss of Bogie], commissary-general, and his deputes and all others, the collectors, subcollectors and others having public warrant for intromitting with and uplifting the maintenance of the sheriffdom of Kincardine, from all troubling, charging or in any way molesting the said supplicant and his lands and tenants within the sheriffdom of Kincardine for payment of the monthly maintenance or any part thereof due and payable for his lands therein, for the which the estates declare this act shall be a sufficient warrant. And likewise the estates ordain the said Mr Roger Mowat to be paid of what he has disbursed in lost mails and other charges since the making of the bargain for his 40 chalders of meal mentioned in the account produced and sold to the use of the public, which was at Lammas [1 August] last.