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To the honourable and high court of parliament, the humble supplication of Sir Hugh Campbell of Cessnock, knight
Shows,
That where upon 28 December last I acquired from [Sir Hugh Wallace], laird of Craigie, elder and [Hugh Wallace of Craigie], younger, Mr William Wallace, sheriff depute of Edinburgh, with consent of certain other persons, the heritable and irredeemable alienation, disposition and right of the one hundred and nine merk land of Riccarton, with the mills, coalworks and pertinents thereof, comprehending the lands and others particularly mentioned and set down in the contract of alienation passed relating thereto, which are held of the prince and steward of Scotland, the charter and infeftment whereof I have not as yet received passed and issued by reason of the want of the exchequer. And seeing I have been using what means possible I could for passing and issuing of my said infeftment, reason and equity would that I should be in no way prejudiced by the delay thereof, but that the date of my charter and infeftment, whensoever the same shall be passed and issued and sasine to follow thereupon, be drawn back to the date of the said contract of alienation and disposition.
Therefore I humbly beseech your honours that you will be pleased by the act to declare and ordain that the charter and infeftment to be passed and issued in my favour of the lands above-written conveyed to me as said is, as soon as the exchequer shall be established and sit, I then using diligence for passing thereof, with the instrument of sasine to follow thereupon in my favour, shall be as valid, effectual and sufficient as if the said charter had been passed and issued under the great seal and infeft according thereto within the space of eight days after the date aforesaid of the said contract of alienation, which is dated the said 28 December last; and that no sasine given to any person or persons of the said lands or any part thereof at any time since then shall be in any way respected to my hurt and prejudice. And your honours' favourable answer herein I humbly expect.
2 March 1659
The estates of parliament grant the desire of the supplication above-written.
[John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament
Edinburgh, 2 March 1649
The estates of parliament grant the desire of the supplication written within.
Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament
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Nomination of the officers by the colonels and commissioner of shires
†[Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw], sheriff of Galloway, and [William Grierson of] Bargatton, as commissioners for that shire and stewartry, do nominate Sir Robert Adair [of Kinhilt] to have the 80 horse to be levied out of the same, and the rest are to be made up to him.
†[George Maule], lord Brechin as colonel of the forces to be levied out of the sheriffdom of Forfar does nominate Mr Robert Arbuthnott rutmaster for Kincardine and [William Keith], earl Marischal's part of Aberdeen, Sir Thomas Nairn to be lieutenant colonel in the said regiment. The viscount of Arbuthnott nominates the Lord Brechin to have the first troop.
†John Dickson of Hartree, commissioner for Peebles, does nominate Captain John Cranston of Glen to be rutmaster of the horse to be levied out of the said shire.
†[Arthur Forbes], laird of Echt and [William Forbes of] Leslie, younger, commissioners for the shire of Aberdeen, do nominate [William Forbes], master of Forbes to have a troop of the horsemen to be levied out of the said shire. And the said Leslie nominates the said laird of Echt to have the second troop of the said forces, the third to be nominated with advice of the committee of the shire.
The committee ordains the report concerning Sir Archibald Primrose to be in readiness against their next session, and appoints Mr Thomas Henderson to advise with the procurators of state relating thereto.
†Colonel Robert Montgomery, with advice of the commissioners from the sheriffdom of Ayr, does nominate [James Chalmers], laird of Gadgirth to have a troop and to be lieutenant colonel. And the commissioners of Renfrew nominate [John Shaw], young laird of Greenock for Renfrew to have another troop and to be lieutenant colonel to [Alan Cathcart], lord Cathcart when he shall be needed. This to be without prejudice to Gadgirth.
Sir James Halkett [of Pitfirrane], with advice of the commissioners of Moray, does nominate Captain Cranston to be one of four to command the horse to be raised out of that division of Moray and a part of Inverness-shire, and his brother to be lieutenant colonel.
The commissioners for the sheriffdom of Lothian do nominate Colonel Thomas Craig to have a troop of the horsemen to be raised out of the shire, [Sir Alexander Inglis of] Ingliston to be lieutenant colonel and have another troop, and convert each three foot into one horseman.
The lord general, with advice of [Sir David Home], laird of Wedderburn, nominates the laird of Humbie, younger, to be a rutmaster of the troop to be raised out of the shire of Berwick.
[Robert Hepburn of] Keith for Haddington nominates [John Cockburn of] Ormiston to have a troop.
Colonel Scotscraig, with advice of the commissioners of Stirling and Clackmannan, nominates Sir Charles Erskine [of Alva, Bandeath and Cambuskenneth] to have a troop and to be lieutenant colonel, and Lundie to be major.
For Lanark, the commissioners of Lanarkshire do nominate Rutmaster James Carmichael and George Lanark, who are to go about the raising the two troops until the lieutenant general as colonel gives his opinion.
Commissioners for Fife, in absence of [David Wemyss], lord Elcho, colonel, do nominate the Lord Elcho to have a troop. Captain Andrew Arnott to be a rutmaster if the lord agrees thereto.
Commissioners of Dumfries, in absence of Colonel Kerr, colonel of that division, nominate [Robert Ferguson of] Craigdarroch to be a rutmaster.
The commissioners of the sheriffdom of Perth nominate Colonel Sir John Brown to have a troop out of that division. And the colonel, with the advice of the other commissioners, appoints Lieutenant Colonel William Bruce to have another troop, and be lieutenant colonel.
Colonel [Walter] Scott [of Hartwoodburn], with the advice of the other commissioner for Roxburgh and Selkirk, does nominate William Kerr of Newton to be lieutenant colonel; and young Stobs to be major of the horsemen to be raised out of that division, and each of them to have a troop.
The committee think fit that the proportion of 800 foot to be raised out of the sheriffdom of Ayr be converted into horsemen and put under the Lord Cathcart's command, at the rate of one horse for three foot.
And that the earl of Sutherland should have command of the horse to be presently levied out of Sutherland and his own division of Inverness and Orkney. And [Sir John Sinclair], laird of Dunbeath of the horse of Caithness and his own lands, and the laird of Moy's lands in Ross.
2 March 1649
2 March 1649
The nomination of the officers in this paper, with the conversions of foot into horse, read and approved and ordained to be added to the act of levy.
[John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament
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Supplication Forbes, Jaffray and others†
To the honourable estates of parliament, the humble supplication of John Forbes of Leslie, Alexander Jaffray, bailie of Aberdeen, Mr Andrew Cant, minister of God's word at Aberdeen, and Thomas Jaffray there
Humbly shows,
That where in the month of September 1645 it pleased God to dispose of your supplicants as to cast us in the hands of the late John Leith, younger, of Harthill, who with his accomplices (returning in triumph from that unhappy battle of Kilsyth) took us prisoners near Fetteresso in the sheriffdom of Kincardine, and from there carried us to the house of Pitcaple in the sheriffdom of Aberdeen, a place then kept by him in garrison for the use of the rebels, to the great hurt of the well-affected in these places and to the great prejudice of your forces then in pursuit of the rebels. Where we having remained close prisoners by the space of five weeks, it pleased God by his good providence through the neglect of our keepers to cast in our hands an opportunity of possessing the house and dispossessing such as had the charge thereof for the time, which practice so enraged them and their adherents, that, before we could make any escape for ourselves, we were close beleaguered and put to new straits. And having kept out for the space of 24 hours, were so overtoiled by the paucity of our number within and the increase of the strength of our adversaries without as we were very near to being reduced and of new exposed to the cruelty of these barbarous enemies, from whom we were to expect no mercy if we had again fallen in their hands. But the Lord, in the very nick of time (while the enemies were increasing in power and had so far prevailed as they had made a good progress in undermining our walls), furnished us unexpected and wonderful deliverance by sending to our assistance [William Forbes], master of Forbes, [Andrew Fraser], lord Fraser, the lairds [James Skene of] Skene, [Sir William Forbes of] Monymusk, [Arthur Forbes of] Echt and [William Forbes of] Leslie, younger, who, with the readiest of their friends and followers, without any further knowledge of our condition save only a rumour of the country, used such expedition as until we were ready to faint and give over we were relieved by them and the enemies put from the siege. But finding no possibility to keep the said house in garrison, being a place lying so near the enemies' power as that the same could not be furnished at any time without great hazard, and that the power of the enemy then drawing together was ready to block up the same of new if any should have entered therein, they being unable to rencounter the full power of the enemy then drawing together upon that occasion, upon which considerations, it was found necessary for preventing what further prejudice the cause and country should sustain by that garrison to put fire to the house, thereby to make the same unprofitable to the enemy in time coming. Therefore we humbly beseech your lords since what was done therein upon occasion of necessity for the good of the public service and for taking from the enemy a means of oppression and tyranny, to the effect that neither we, your lords' supplicants, nor those who exposed themselves to hazard for us, may in any time coming suffer prejudice for that deed, your lords may be pleased to pass an act of approbation of the same as done for the public good and use of the country; and that we and these noblemen and gentlemen who came to our relief be free in all time coming of all pursuit raised or to be raised, whether civil or criminal, for setting fire to the said house and for any bloodshed in raising the said siege or any act of hostility done relating thereto. And your lords' answer.
19 February 1649
Ordain the complainer to bring in so many persons †
19 February 1649
The committee, having taken knowledge of the certainty of the case of the business written within and notoriety thereof by certain persons of their number, and the business being known to them and many others in this kingdom, do grant the desire of the supplication written within and ordain the same to be reported in parliament.
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Report Mr Andrew Cant and others
Edinburgh, 19 February 1649
Supplication of John Forbes of Leslie, Alexander Jaffray, bailie of Aberdeen, Mr Andrew Cant, minister of God's word at Aberdeen, and Thomas Jaffray there, craving an act of approbation to be passed and granted in favour of [William Forbes], master of Forbes, [Andrew Fraser], lord Fraser, the lairds [James Skene of] Skene, [Sir William Forbes of] Monymusk, [Arthur Forbes of] Echt and [William Forbes of] Leslie, younger, and others of their friends and followers of the killing firing and burning of the house of Pitcaple and of any bloodshed in raising the siege about the said house, or any act of hostility done relating thereto as done for the public use service and good of the country and relief of the supplicants; and that the said noblemen, gentlemen and others, their friends and followers, be free in all time coming of all pursuit for the causes aforesaid or any act† of hostility done relating thereto, whether civil or criminal.
The committee, after certain knowledge had of the truth and certainty of the supplication written within, and in respect of the notoriety of the same, not only to some of their own number but to many others in this kingdom, think in their humble opinion that the desire of the supplication ought to be granted as most just and reasonable.
J. Coupar, in the presence of the lords of the committee
2 March 1649
Read, voted and approved.
[John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament
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Supplication Chanonry of Ross
To the honourable and high court of parliament now assembled at Edinburgh 1649, we, the inhabitants of the Chanonry of Ross, do most humbly represent that our kirk, sometime called the cathedral kirk of Ross, lies desolate and destitute of a public ministry, to the great grief and hurt of our souls, ever since the late happy reformation, and that for want of a competent provision and maintenance. Therefore, seeing it belongs to the power and authority of parliament to help and redress such an evil, and seeing many kirks in the kingdom, especially those which are of the same quality and condition with ours, have been provided of the bishops' rents and our kirk has most near relation thereto, being always served personally by the pretended bishops as a particular congregation, without any other provision, and our bishopric rents are exacted strictly and employed to secular uses while our kirk wants all maintenance, our humble supplication is that your lords would take our case to heart, and, by your power and authority, enact and declare our kirk to be a particular parish kirk, that according to the laws and customs of the kingdom we may seek for a provision; and more especially, that your lords, in such manner as in wisdom and righteousness it shall seem fittest to you, would provide for us a competent maintenance out of the aforesaid bishops' rents, to which his majesty at his last being in Scotland did condescend and would have accomplished it if the matter had not been miscarried. And now knowing the same to be in your lordships' power, our supplication and expectation is that we may and shall find the real effect of the same. So praying almighty God to direct and protect your lords for advancement of truth and peace, we rest,
Your lords' humble supplicants, the inhabitants of the Chanonry of Ross,
May it please your lords to recommend the said kirk of Chanonry seriously to the commission for plantation of kirks, to be provided out of the bishops' rents of Ross and free teinds of the parish of Chanonry.
2 March 1649
The parliament seriously recommend the plantation of the kirk of the Chanonry of Ross to the commission for plantation of kirks, with the provision thereof to be taken into consideration by them amongst the first of their acts at their down-sitting.
[John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament
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[Charles Seton], earl of Dunfermline's supplication
It is humbly represented to the honourable estates of parliament on behalf of Charles, earl of Dunfermline,
That seeing your honours are about the appointing of a levy of horse and foot for defence of the kingdom, which levy probably is to be raised out of the several shires of the kingdom by an equal proportion according to every man's valued rent, and seeing the said earl has several lands and fishings within the sheriffdoms of Aberdeen and Elgin which are for the most part altogether destroyed, wasted and rendered unprofitable these various years bygone, it being too manifest and well-known that not only was his house and planting of Fyvie defaced and destroyed by the enemy, but likewise his said house for a long time was kept as a garrison for the use and defence of the country, by which occasions his whole lands of Fyvie and tenants thereof were ruined and destroyed. Besides that in a very great strait in 1644 he did send 1,000 bolls of meal for the supply of the army then commanded by [Archibald Campbell], marquis of Argyll (as his lordship and [Robert Balfour], lord [Balfour of] Burleigh can witness), for which the said earl never has yet received any payment, albeit the said meal was all that he got of these rents these four years bygone. And as for his rents in Moray which for the most part consist in the fishings of the River Spey, the whole works and corfe-house and whole materials thereof were barbarously burnt and destroyed by the rebels and his lands in Moray wasted by them, so as he has not received nor cannot expect any rent or benefit of any of his estate in that country. Which heavy losses, (beyond any other losses without exception) being several times tried and considered by the parliament and committees of estates, were found to extend nearly to £200,000, and in respect thereof, his said lands and estate there were declared free and liberated from maintenance or other impositions (all which premises shall be instructed by express acts of parliament and committees of estates). In respect whereof, it is to be expected that the justice and equity of the parliament will neither impose nor demand any maintenance or levies out of the said earl's wasted and destroyed estate, as being absolutely impracticable and impossible for him to bear or perform. Therefore it is humbly desired that your honours in justice and equity may be pleased to declare the said earl's lands and estate in these two shires to be free of any burden in this present levy, and withal that your honours will be pleased to prorogate and renew his former acts of exemption from future maintenance until it pleases God he may get some benefit and rent out of his wasted and destroyed estate aforesaid. And your honours' favourable answer.
24 February 1649
Read in audience of the parliament and remitted to the several bodies.
2 March 1649
The estates of parliament, in respect of the great wasting which has been upon the supplicant's lands, ordain his said lands in the shires of Aberdeen and Moray to be considered by the committee of war and to have an ease; and ordain the shire to have deduction of the ease to be given to the supplicant either in the maintenance or levy.
[John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament
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Supplication Sir John Murray
My lords and others of the estates of parliament now convened, to your lords humbly means and shows I, your lords' servant, Sir John Murray of Philiphaugh, knight, that where in the month of September 1645 before and at the battle of Philiphaugh against James Graham, sometime earl of Montrose and his adherents, where it pleased God to grant so happy a success that this kingdom was happily relieved, at least the most part freed of their tyrannical, wicked and rebellious courses used and intended against all honest and religious men, my dwelling house of Philiphaugh and yards and planting thereof were all spoiled and rustled and my whole goods, gear and furniture and plenishing not only being therein, but all such horse, cattle, livestock and sheep, with all the corns that were upon my mains and lands thereabouts belonging to me and possessed by me and my tenants, were spoiled, plundered and taken away, and all left waste and desolate, whereby I was so utterly ruined that nothing was left to me neither within, about nor without my house that I had no present subsistence, but by the help and charity of friends, I being an aged man, and having reduced myself (for the good of my house) to be only a liferenter of a mean portion of my estate, being by God's providence in a hard condition in respect of liferents and great burden of debts, whereupon it pleased the committee of monies and common burdens for the time to give commission in April 1646 to various gentlemen of the shire to investigate and take trial of my said damage and losses, who having led lawful probation relating thereto, did find the same to amount to the sum of £12,014 18s 4d, as the report made by the said commissioners duly registered herewith produced can testify, and of which sum I have as yet received no payment, to my heavy loss and prejudice, notwithstanding that my carriage has been, still and hopes in God's mercy shall so continue until I live to be faithful and honest as becomes a true covenanter and good patriot. And that it is well-known how I lost a hopeful gentleman that was my son at the battle of Auldearn, who was the staff of my old age, in the north against the said rebel James Graham, which many of your number can testify; and that my quality and condition before my sad losses was in a honest way of living with my wife and numerous children and family, which I am forced to declare the verity to your honours is become now (through the said losses and want of reparation thereof) so mean and poor that we have scarcely subsistence whereupon to live in respect of the meanness of my liferent portion and many common burdens, which, notwithstanding of the premises, I still lie under and am forced to pay as the rest of the country, so that I am necessitate to have my recourse to your honours for my supply. Humbly beseeching therefore your lords to take the premises into your serious consideration, and, in respect of my former condition and quality and present want and misery, to take such speedy course as your honours in wisdom and conscience shall think fit whereby I may get effectual payment of the said sum of £12,014 18s 4d and annualrents thereof since my loss thereof in manner above-written; and that thereby I and my wife and children may have my own to live upon in some honest way according to my rank and degree, which shall oblige us ever to pray for and to wish the blessing of God upon you and all your labours and enterprises, which I pray the Lord to grant, humbly expecting your favourable answer.
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Report Sir John Murray of Philiphaugh
Edinburgh, 20 February 1649
Supplication Sir John Murray of Philiphaugh, knight, craving effectual payment to be made to him of the sum of £12,014 18s and annualrents thereof since the supplicant's losses, which were in September 1645 before and at the battle of Philiphaugh, owing by the public to him as a report of his said losses duly registered bears.
The committee find the bill instructed, and therefore it is their humble opinion that the parliament grant precept and warrant to Sir James Stewart [of Kirkfield and Coltness] for making payment to the supplicant (for the present subsistence and livelihood of him, his lady, numerous children and family) of the sum of 4,000 merks before all other debts due by the public, and that out of the first and readiest of any public monies, the army and garrisons of this kingdom being always first satisfied. And that 6,000 merks be lifted to be paid as the first portion of those debts most urgent and necessary to be paid and lifted, and likewise that the rest of the said whole sum of £12,014 18s money aforesaid may be paid when it may be had with the rest of the public debts and losses, and that the payment of any one of the respective sums deducts as much from the principal sum aforesaid.
J. Coupar, in the presence of the lords of the committee
2 March 1649
The estates of parliament approve the report.
[John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament
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Mr Robert Keith's supplication
To the high and honourable court of parliament, the humble petition of Mr Robert Keith, minister of God's word at the kirk of Deer
Shows,
Whereas the late Nathaniel Gordon, being my close kinsman, and I being a regent in the Old College of St Andrews at the time of his suffering there, was by reason of the near relation of blood between him and me in a manner constrained to advance him money for his maintenance during his abode in prison, and to pay the charge of his funeral, for payment whereof, he, by his letter-will and testament, gave warrant to me to pursue Jean Gordon, widow of the late William Gordon of Tulloch, for payment to me of the sum of 500 dollars given by him to her in custody, and also to pursue all his other debtors for payment of such monies as they were due to him, as the said testament bears. Notwithstanding whereof, neither will the said Jean Gordon and other debtors of the said late Nathaniel make voluntary payment to me of the debts generally and particularly aforesaid, nor yet will the sheriff of Aberdeen and his deputes, commissaries thereof, and other judges within whose bounds the said Jean Gordon and other debtors of the said late Nathaniel dwell, proceed at my instance against them according to justice without your lords' warrant and command for that effect. Therefore I beseech your lords to grant warrant and command to the said sheriff of Aberdeen and his deputes, commissaries thereof, and all other judges within whose bound the said Jean Gordon and other debtors aforesaid dwell, to proceed at my instance against them for payment to me of the said sums and debts according to justice. And your lords' answer I humbly crave.
I, Alexander Keith, writer, grants me to have received up the testament produced at Edinburgh on 7 March 1649.
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Report of the committee anent the supplication of Mr Robert Keith, minister at Deer, and his spouse
Edinburgh, 20 February 1649
The committee, having heard and considered the supplication of Mr Robert Keith, minister at Deer, and Elspeth Donaldson, widow of the late Andrew Burnett, burgess of Aberdeen, showing that the said Mr Robert, having advanced some monies for the charges of the late Nathaniel Gordon during his imprisonment at St Andrews and for the burial of his corpse there, and that the said late Nathaniel, acknowledging himself due in some monies to the said Elspeth Donaldson, the said late Nathaniel, by his testament all written and subscribed with his hand at St Andrews on 19 January 1646 declared that there was 500 dollars of his in the hands of Janet Gordon, widow of the late William Gordon of Tulloch, whereof he appointed 200 dollars to be given to the said Elspeth Donaldson, 100 dollars to the said Mr Robert Keith and the rest to be given to Grissell Seaton, spouse to the said late Nathaniel Gordon as his brother should think fit. And that notwithstanding thereof, the said Janet Gordon nor the other debtors of the said late Nathaniel will make no voluntary payment, neither yet will the sheriff principal of Aberdeen, nor his deputes and commissary thereof, nor the other judges competent within whose bounds the said Janet Gordon and other debtors dwell, grant process against them without the parliament's warrant. And therefore desiring that the parliament would grant warrant and command to the judges aforesaid within whose bounds the said Janet Gordon and other debtors dwell to proceed and administer justice at the supplicants' instance for payment of the dollars aforesaid and debts due and indebted to the said late Nathaniel Gordon.
The said committee find the aforesaid supplication instructed by the said late Nathaniel Gordon's testament produced all written and subscribed with his own hand, and in respect thereof, it is the humble opinion of the committee that the parliament would give warrant and command to the judges above-designed, within whose bounds and jurisdiction the said Janet Gordon and other debtors of the said late Nathaniel Gordon dwells and have their residence, to grant process and proceed in the administration of justice at the instance of the supplicants against the said Janet Gordon and other debtors of the said late Nathaniel for payment to the said Mr Robert Keith of the sum of 100 dollars, and to the said Elspeth Donaldson of the sum of 200 dollars, and for payment of the rest to the said Grissell Seaton, widow of the said late Nathaniel, as his brother shall think fit; and to give and pronounce decreets and sentences for this effect, according to the said late Nathaniel's testament aforesaid, notwithstanding of the decreet and sentence of forfeiture given against the said late Nathaniel Gordon whereupon he suffered death.
And that for this effect the parliament would be pleased to assign and convey the benefit of the aforesaid forfeiture for the sums and debts above-written owing to the said late Nathaniel to and in favour of the supplicants for their payment aforesaid, and to the said Grissell Seaton, his widow, for the rest, reserving to the defenders their just defences according to the law.
J Coupar, in the presence of the lords of the committee
2 March 1649
Read and approved in parliament.
[John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament
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For the right honourable, [Archibald Campbell], lord marquis of Argyll
Right honourable,
I did apprehend to find this place in some disorder, which made me make haste here. When I came to town I found the whole four companies possessed of the castle and have disarmed their officers and would not suffer me to enter, but after I had spoke with them, I entered and persuaded them to come out; and the three companies are marched, my own I have kept in the castle. I was necessitated to give them a month's means, but I hope I shall get that paid back to me when it can be had from the country. I dare not [...] the men I have here, unless your lord will cause send a troop of horse very quickly, I fear ill in these places. A number of malignants were joined with them and did persuade them to this mutiny. I [...] not take any course with them until I have some force, for these I have I cannot trust them; so I must again earnestly entreat your lord to cause Strachan's troop march here with expedition. I thought to have gone north with them myself, [but] it is not now possible unless I should hazard the loss of this place. I desire to hear from your lord by this bearer. And I rest,
Your lord's humble and faithful servant, James Holburne, Stirling, 1 March 1649
I must crave your lord's pardon again to advise your lord may further dispatch the raising of the troops and foot, especially out of those places that are best affected.†
This villain Holburne was a creature of Argyll's, and [James Hamilton], duke of Hamilton's descent, Argyll hiding, resumed the ruling [...]†
2 March 1649
Produced by the lord marquis of Argyll.
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Letter from parliament to Major Holburne
2 March 1649
[Archibald Campbell], lord marquis of Argyll having communicated to us your letter to his lord, with another also from Colonel John Innes to yourself, we could not but take notice of your care and faithfulness in the trust reposed in you. And as we return thanks to you for what you have done in securing that place and for preventing any inconvenience that might arise amongst the soldiers, so do we desire you to continue in doing everything which in those parts you shall conceive to be most for the good of the service. Wherein that you may be the better encouraged and assisted, we have appointed the lord general to order Colonel Gilbert Kerr and Major Strachan's troop to proceed to you, to be disposed on and quartered near you as you shall think fit; and Colonel Scott's troop also forthwith to remove to Linlithgowshire, to be in readiness at all occasions.
So desiring to hear from you frequently, we remain
As for what you have given to the soldiers, we shall take care you be duly repaid thereof. We send you a copy of the proclamation which we have published against the runaways. So desiring to hear from you frequently, we remain,
[...], Edinburgh, 2 March 1649
2 March 1649
Read and approved in parliament.
[John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament
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Report of Freeland's supplication†
At Edinburgh, 26 February 1649
The supplication of Sir Thomas Ruthven of Freeland, for himself and in name of sundry heritors of Perthshire, craving that there may be a commission directed to such heritors of the said shire as the parliament pleases for calling the collectors of the said shire to an account for certain additional money collected by them, which was imposed upon the rents of the said shire by the committee thereof for relief of the common burdens of the same, for which the supplicant and others, the well-affected of the said shire, stand obliged. Being read and considered by the committee of bills, it is the humble opinion of the said committee that a commission be granted to John Campbell of Aberlednock, Peter Hay of Leys, Sir Patrick Ogilvie of Inchmartine, Sir Thomas Blair of Balthayock, William Oliphant of Balgonie, [...] Murray of Ochtertyre, [Sir George Preston], laird of Valleyfield and [John Cornwall], laird of Bonhard, Sir Thomas Stewart of Grandtully, Henry Sinclair of Glassingall, Gilbert Campbell of Keithick, Mr David Kinloch of Aberbrothie and William Butter of Pitcullen, or any three of them, and that they have power to call and convene before them the collectors of loan, tax and monthly maintenance of the said shire, and to exact from them account, reckoning and payment of the said additional money imposed on the rents of the said shire for defraying the public burdens thereof, and to employ the same for the supplicants' relief of the said burdens. Likewise, it is the humble opinion of the said committee that letters of horning be directed hereupon against the said commissioners and collectors respectively in the appropriate form at the instance of the said Sir Thomas Ruthven, for himself and in name and on behalf aforesaid, and that the said Sir Thomas be ordained to be convener of the said commissioners at their first meeting, and that he make advertisement to them for that effect.
J Coupar, in the presence of the lords of the committee
2 March 1649
The estates approve the report above-written.
[John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament