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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