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Our soverane lord, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament presently conveened be his majesties' authority, takeing to their consideration a petition presented to them be Mr William Wishart, minister at Kinneill, shewing that, by order of the honorable committie of estates, his stipend wes sequestrat and he debarred from the uplifting thairof for the necesser intertainment of himselff and his familie; and therfor, craveing that he may [have] letters direct at his instance for charging the heritors of the said paroche to make payment to him of the bygone halff yeer's stipend of the cropt and yeer 1660, and of all bygones restand unpayed; and als haveing considered the report of the comissioners of parliament appointed for bills theranent, to whom the said mater wes referred, decernes and ordaines all and sindrie heritors, fewers, fermours, tennents, taksmen, rentallers, lyverenters, possessors and occupyers and others lyable in payment of the minister's stipend within the said paroche, to make payment to the said Mr William Wischart of the forsaid halff yeer's stipend restand unpayed of the said cropt 1660 yeers, and of all bygone stipend restand awand unpayed by them to him, ilk ane of them proportionally for their oune parts thairof, and that notwithstanding of the sequestration abovementioned, and if neid bies ordaines letters of horning on 15 dayes etc.