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The estates of parliament, having taken into consideration the supplication of Jean Cockburn, widow of the late David Scrimgeour, tutrix testamentar to Margaret and Clara Scrimgeour, their bairns, heirs and executors to the said late David Scrimgeour, showing them to have obtained a decreet before the lords of council and session upon 6 June 1647 against John [Scrimgeour], now viscount of Dudhope, grandchild and heir served and retoured to the late John [Scrimgeour], viscount of Dudhope, his grandfather, upon which decreet the supplicants raised letters of horning and caused charge the said viscount of Dudhope to have employed the sum of £20,000 for the use of the supplicants, in manner specified in the said decreet. The which charge the said viscount of Dudhope suspended, minding thereby to frustrate the supplicants of their present subsistence and livelihood, they having no other means to live on but the annualrent of the said sum. And therefore craving the parliament would ordain the said viscount of Dudhope to pay to the supplicants the due and ordinary annualrent of the said sum resting owed to them for their maintenance and sustentation notwithstanding of the said suspension and no discussion thereof, and to ordain letters to be directed to charge him for payment thereof under the pain of horning, as at more length is contained in the said supplication. Which, with the said viscount of Dudhope's non-compearance before the parliament or committee of bills, being lawfully cited and warned to have compeared at a certain day bygone to have heard and seen the desire of the bill granted, together with an act of the lords of council and session of 17 February 1648 ordaining the sum of 2,000 merks money modified by the said lords and consigned by the said viscount of Dudhope to be given up to the supplicants for their maintenance, together also with the report of the said committee of bills in the said matter, being taken into consideration by the said estates of parliament, they decree and ordain the said John, viscount of Dudhope to content and pay to the supplicants presently the sum of 2,000 merks for their bygone maintenance preceding Candlemas [2 February] last and the sum of £1,000 yearly in time coming until the said suspension be discussed for their future subsistence and maintenance, beginning the first term's payment of the said sum of £1,000 at the term of Lammas [1 August] next in this instant year of God 1649; which sums the said estates declare to be in part payment of the bygone annualrents resting owed by the said viscount of Dudhope to the supplicants, and ordain the said two several respective sums ordained to be paid in manner and at the times above-written to be paid to them without any retention for either of the said sums. And likewise the estates of parliament discharge any suspension to be granted in the said matter, and ordain letters of horning to be directed thereupon, if need be, on a simple charge of six days only.
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The estates of parliament, having heard and considered the supplication of Alexander Forrest, one of the ordinary macers before the lords of council and session, showing that the committee of estates by their act of 12 October last did appoint him to be one of the ordinary macers to attend them until this present parliament, and did allow to him 3s sterling per day for his service and attendance; and therefore desiring the parliament to grant an act in his favour to be one of the ordinary macers to the committee of estates and convention of estates respectively during his lifetime or continuance of the said committees or conventions, with all fees, privileges and casualties belonging thereto, and to assure to him the payment of his former allowance since 4 January last and in time coming as said is, as the supplication more fully purports, together with the report and opinion of the committee for the bills concerning the aforesaid supplication and desire thereof. The said estates, in respect of the known honesty and ability of the supplicant and of his careful and diligent attendance, nominate, appoint, make and constitute the said Alexander Forrest, supplicant, to be one of the ordinary macers to attend and serve this next ensuing committee of estates as one of the ordinary macers there and to all other subsequent committees and conventions of estates respectively hereafter during his lifetime, and ordain the same place of being one of the ordinary macers to committees and conventions of estates respectively to be held, possessed and enjoyed by him with all fees, privileges and casualties belonging thereto peaceably without any interruption in time coming. And also the said estates, in respect of the aforesaid act of the committee of estates of 12 October last allowing 3s sterling per day for his attendance and service aforesaid, they do therefore hereby recommend the said Alexander Forrest, supplicant, to the committee appointed for monies and accounts of the kingdom for his payment and satisfaction of his bygone allowance since the aforesaid act and for his service in parliament since the said 4 January last and in time coming during his service as an ordinary macer before the said committees and conventions of estates respectively, anent which premises the estates declare this act shall be a sufficient warrant.
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The estates of parliament, considering the supplication presented by Sir John Wemyss of Bogie, touching the redelivery of the surety granted by him (as commissary-general) by virtue of an act of the committee of estates in the month of August last to Mr Pitcairn, advocate, for his demission of the office of commissariat of Dunkeld, and that the same, by their warrant and command, is redelivered and cancelled; therefore they have declared and declare the said demission to be void and restore the said Mr Patrick Pitcairn to the said office of commissariat and to all title and possession thereof, according to the gifts granted to him before. And also the estates of parliament of new give, authorise and constitute the said Mr Patrick commissary of the commissariat of Dunkeld for life without offence, giving to him the same place, and his deputes of the said commissariat to be appointed by him, whom he is authorised hereby to nominate and for whom he shall be answerable, all fees, privileges, immunities and casualties belonging thereto within the whole bounds and limits of the said commissariat to be exercised and enjoyed by him and his deputes as freely and fully in all points as any other commissary does or may do within this kingdom; and particularly with power to him to nominate, admit and appoint clerks and fiscals and other necessary members of court. And the estates of parliament do hereby exclude Mr James and Gilbert Stewart from all title, interest, possession, profit and casualty belonging to the said office apprehended or to be acclaimed by either of them by virtue of the aforesaid demission, acts of parliament or committees in all time coming, and declare all conformations of testaments and decreets given and issued by them since the date of the said Mr Patrick's first gift to be null and ineffectual, discharging all the lieges from repairing to the pretended consistories and receiving confirmation of testaments from either of them in time coming. And for the better accommodation of the lieges, recommend to the committee of estates (who are hereby authorised with full power) to determine anent the constant seat of the consistory, and in the meantime, appoint the consistory courts to be affixed and held at the burgh of Perth, requiring hereby [John Murray], earl of Atholl, his bailies and factors that they suppress all consistories and commissariat courts to be kept within the town of Dunkeld and cause make publication hereof at all places needful within the bounds of their jurisdictions.