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The estates of parliament, taking into their consideration the supplication given in by Alexander Strachan of Glenkindie, making mention that where in the year 1639, the noblemen, barons, burgesses and other commissioners being at Aberdeen for the time, being obliged conjointly and separately to pay to Sir William Dick of Braid, knight, then provost of Edinburgh, the sum of 100,000 merks, which was employed for furnishing General Major Munro to bring in the first 2,000 men, as in the contract passed relating thereto of the date at Edinburgh, 6 March the said year 1639 bears. Likewise thereafter the whole noblemen, barons, gentlemen and freeholders within the shires of Aberdeen and Banff (whereof the supplicant is one) having, by a bond subscribed with their hands of the [...] day of [...] the same year, bound and obliged themselves to pay their equal part of the said sum of 200,000 merks accordingly as the same should be divided and set down to be paid by the sheriffdoms of Aberdeen and Banff, and that between now and 1 May next thereafter, and which proportion aforesaid was obliged to be paid to Sir John Smith [of Grotehill] or the said Sir William Dick, as the said bond granted by the noblemen, heritors and gentlemen of the said shires in itself at more length purports. And true it is that the supplicant, as one of the granters and subscribers of the bond, being direct commissioners for these shires, was charged by the said Sir William Dick for payment of the sum of 2,500 merks due to be paid by the said shires of Aberdeen and Banff, and that under the pain of horning, whereby the supplicant was forced to make payment thereof to the said Sir William Dick, as his discharge granted thereupon has testified. And seeing both equity and reason require that the supplicant should suffer no more but his own proportional part of the said sum with the rest of the noblemen, gentlemen and heritors of these shires, and for that effect ought and should have reparation thereof, and therefore humbly desiring that he may have letters directed charging them to make payment to him, and that seeing the said Sir William Dick at the time of the said supplication obtained warrant that no suspension should be granted to the supplicant against him, that the parliament would give warrant that no suspension pass against the said supplicant in the said matter accordingly as the same shall be urged, as at more length is contained in the said supplication. Which being heard and considered by the said estates of parliament, they have given and granted and by this act give and grant full power and authority to the committee of the shire of Aberdeen to stent the lands belonging to the persons after-specified, subscribers of the said bond, namely: Alexander [Forbes], master of Forbes, Sir William Forbes of Monymusk, Alexander Fraser of Philorth, Walter Barclay of Towie, John Forbes of Leslie, Mr John Forbes of Hauchtoune, Arthur Forbes of Echt, John Forbes of Craig, Robert Forbes of Coull, Alexander Burnett of Arwatie, James Skene of that ilk, John Forbes of Corsindae, Francis Fraser of Kinmundy, John Forbes of Easton, Andrew Baird, bailie of Banff, Alexander Urdory of Auchterley, Mr James Buchan of Auchinmathie, John Donaldson of Hiltinny, John [Lyon], earl of Kinghorn, John [...], Sir William Forbes of Craigievar, Alexander Irvine of Glenmuick, Mr Andrew Skene of Newton in Skene, William [Keith], earl Marischal, Andrew [Fraser], lord Fraser, Alexander Irvine of Glenturk, John Chalmer of Balnacraig, Gilbert Skene of Dyce, Walter Urquhart of Lethenty, Walter Forbes of Tolquhon, Sir William Keith of Ludquharn, knight, Thomas Forbes of Waterton, John Udny of that ilk, Thomas Fraser of Strachan, James Crichton of Frendraught, Alexander Strachan of Glenkindie, James [Ogilvy], earl of Findlater, Sir Alexander Abercrombie of Birkenbog, Alexander Ogilvie of Kerpinraill, George Baird of Auchmedden, Alexander Urquhart of Dunlugas, William Hay of Delgatie, George Gordon of Harthead, James Hay of Muriefauld, Robert Forbes, tutor of [...], John Grant, younger, of Ballindalloch, William Forbes, younger, of Corsindae, John Arbuthnott of [...] and Thomas Erskine of Pittodrie [and Balhalgardy] for payment of the said sum of 2,500 merks, with the annualrents thereof, according to the tenor of a contract passed relating thereto of the date 6 March 1639 as a part of the said sum of 200,000 merks; and to divide and put the aforesaid sum of 2,500 merks and annualrent thereof since [...] upon the several parties aforesaid, subscribers of the bond, proportionally according to the proportion of the shire. And ordain the said Alexander Strachan of Glenkindie, supplicant aforesaid, to have letters of horning to warn and charge the said committee of war to set down the said stent roll according to the proportion aforesaid, and ordain the said supplicant to have letters for charging the parties, subscribers of the said bond, for his relief to make payment to him of their proportional part of the said sum of 2,500 merks and annualrents aforesaid according to the stent roll set down in manner aforesaid, being stented according to the valuation of the shire.