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The estates of parliament, taking into their consideration the supplication of Patrick, lord Elibank, showing that there is due to him by the estates of the kingdom of lent money and annualrents thereof at Candlemas [2 February] 1647 the sum of £18,294 Scots money, according to the acts and bonds granted to him by the committee of estates for payment thereof, and desiring order and warrant that he may be paid of the aforesaid sum, as the supplication bears, the said estates of parliament ordain the sum of £1,000 sterling of the sums aforesaid indebted to him by the estates to be paid to the said Patrick, lord Elibank out of the remainder of the brotherly assistance due and payable by the parliament and kingdom of England to this kingdom and yet unpaid and not formerly assigned, and for the rest and surplus of the sum above-mentioned, besides the said £1,000 sterling, the estates ordain the same rest and surplus to remain and be as lent money by the supplicant to the public and to be due and payable by the public to him as lent money for the use of the public, according to his former acts and bonds thereof. And for the said Lord Elibank's more ready and timeous payment of the £1,000 sterling above-specified, the said estates do hereby grant right and assignment for payment of that sum to the said Patrick, lord Elibank, or to any having his power and warrant to receive the same, out of the remainder of the aforesaid brotherly assistance due and payable by the parliament of England to this kingdom and yet unpaid and not formerly assigned as said is. And for this effect the said estates of parliament by this act grant precept and warrant for payment of the aforesaid sum of £1,000 sterling to the said Patrick, lord Elibank, or to any having his power and warrant to receive the same, out of the remainder of the aforesaid brotherly assistance due and payable by the parliament and kingdom of England to this kingdom as is aforesaid, and that upon the discharges of the said Lord Elibank, or any having his power and warrant as said is, upon the receipt of the said sum, whose discharge thereof the estates of parliament declare shall be a sufficient warrant and exoneration to the payers thereof and to all others interested or that may be concerned therein.