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The estates of parliament, taking into their consideration a supplication given in by Marie Drummond, widow of the late William Bruce of Kincavil, showing the great losses sustained by her and her said late husband, first after the conflict at Kilsyth, their lands being totally wasted and their house plundered, and thereafter at the time of the armies lying near Linlithgow, there was destroyed upon their lands 281 bolls and a half apprized by honest and sufficient men and not a horse left upon the ground, there being spuilzied and taken from the said bounds goods to the value of £623 6s 8d. Whereupon the supplicant having submitted herself to the committee of estates, they granted her precept to the commissary-general for payment of 2,500 merks Scots in part payment of her losses and sufferings, which she can in no way get paid notwithstanding of the said precept, and therefore supplicating that some effectual course may be taken for her satisfaction, and that until she gets further reparation she may be free of putting out horse and foot and liberated of quarterings, monthly maintenance and other public burdens, as at more length is contained in the said supplication. Which being taken into consideration by the said estates of parliament, they have remitted and recommended to the committee of monies that some effectual course may be taken for payment to the supplicant of the aforesaid sum of 2,500 merks contained in the said precept, and have remitted and remit the other points of the said supplication anent the liberating of her from quarterings, putting out of horse or foot, paying of monthly maintenance and other public dues to the committee of estates, that such course may be taken therein as they shall think fit.