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The which day the report underwritten wes presented and read in parliament and appointed to be recordit in the books of parliament, whairof the tenor followes.
At Edinburgh, the second day of May 1661, the which day the lords of parliament, to whom the petition of James, lord Lindores wes referred, haveing met [and] after tryell and examination doe find his losses following sufficiently qualified and proven, and it is their humble opinion the same be allowed be the parliament. Inprimis, the said Lord Lindores, for his affection to the royall interest, hes been sequestrate and put from his estate and fortune since the begining of the late unhappie troubles and keept under cloud and seas continowally sensyn, estimat his losses sustained therby to three thousand, fyve hundreth [and] threttie three pund sterline. Item, the said petitioner wes, in his majesties' service, taken prissoner and all taken from him and keept prissoner be the space of nyne yeers and a halff, which, with his losses and charges, does amount upon that account to four thousand pund sterline. Item, the said James, lord Lindores wes by the English usurpers of late agane sequestrat, and all his horses, cattell, houses, insight plenishing, and all he had in Scotland seized upon, wherby he wes damnified in above the sume of tuo thousand pund sterline, summa is nyne thousand, fyve hundreth [and] threttie three pund sterline.
Subscryved thus: Seaforth, Sinclare, Fraser, Geo[rge] Mckenzie, Johne Rynold [and] Al[exander]† Lesley.
The lord commissioner continewes the parliament till the morrow at tuo hours, and all summons ut supra.