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The estates of parliament etc., having heard the supplication given in to them by Colonel Walter Scott, humbly showing that the estates of parliament of this kingdom held in 1648, having taken into their serious consideration the many good and thankful services done to them by the said Colonel Walter Scott these nine years bygone in the armies, both within and without the country, answerable to the trust thereof, did by their act of 9 June 1648 not only ratify and approve his whole carriage and behaviour in the said employments, but also knowing of his intention to go out of the kingdom to foreign nations, upon his humble supplication, did grant to him free liberty either to go out of this kingdom or to remain within the same as he thought most expedient, as the said act produced before the said estates of parliament more fully purports; as also showing that the said Colonel Walter Scott is desirous to have the said act corroborated with his majesty's great seal of this kingdom, to the effect the same may have the greater effect, faith and splendour abroad amongst strangers if it should happen him to go out of the kingdom, and therefore humbly craving the said estates to grant warrant to the director of the chancellery to write his said pass in the most ample form to the great seal and to the lord chancellor for appending the great seal thereto without passing any other seals or registers, as in the said supplication at more length is contained. Which supplication being taken into consideration by the said estates of parliament, they have given and granted and by this act give and grant warrant to Sir John Scott, director of the chancellery, to write the said pass to the great seal in most ample form, and to the earl of Loudoun, lord chancellor, for appending the said great seal thereto without passing any other seals or registers.