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We undersubscryvers, commissioned be the parliament for takeing tryell of the sufferings and losses sustained be Sir Robert Douglas of Blaikerstoun, find that the said Sir Robert Dowglas hes, for his adherence to the royall interest and his endeavours for promoveing the same, sustained the losses and sufferings following. Inprimis, wee find that in March 1644 he wes forced to advance to the pretendit committie of estates the sume of tuo hundreth pund[s] sterline, proven be the band granted be the said pretendit committie bearing interest till the repayment, which principall sume, with the interest till March last at sex per centum, amounts to three hundreth and four score, tuelff pund[s] sterline. Secundo, wee find that the said Sir Robert Douglas wes, after Philiphaugh [and] for his joyning with the marques of Montrose, fyned in and payed the sume of on thousand pund[s] sterline, proven be tuo discharges granted be the severall persons who had power and warrand from the generall commisser to receave the same, which with the interest from the tyme of payment to Candlemes 1661 at sex per centum, extends in the haill to ane thousand and nyne hundreth punds sterline. Tertio, wee find it proven be the depositions of diverse famous witnesses that the said Sir Robert did, by commission from the marques of Montrose, his majesties' commissioner, levey a troope of horse consisting of threescore, besids officers, all well appointed with armes and other furniture, and joyned with the said marques before and at Philiphaugh, the charges whairof the said Sir Robert declares, upon his word of honor, did amount to seven hundreth pund[s] sterline, which with the interest at sex per centum to Witsunday 1661, amounts to one thousand, three hundreth and threttie pund[s] sterline. Quarto, wee find, be the depositions of diverse famous witnesses, that the said Sir Robert Douglas did, in obedience of the commands of the deceast James, duke of Hamilton, his majesties' commissioner for the tyme, and of the privy councill of Scotland, goe to the paroche churches within the barronie of Ranfrew and shirreffdome of Lanerick and ther, with the hazard of his liffe, caused reid his majesties' covenant, the charges wherof the said Sir Robert declares, upon his word of honor, did arise to the sume of one hundreth and fiftie pund[s] sterline. Quinto, the said Sir Robert Douglas declares, upon oath, that by and attour the payment of his fyne he wes forced at that tyme to put forth seven horse and ten dragouns, the charges whairof did amount to tuo hundreth [and] threescore sex pund, threttein shilling[s] [and] four pennies sterline. Sexto, wee find by the depositions of diverse famous witnesses upon oath that the said Sir Robert wes keept prissoner after Philiphauch in the castles of Dumbartan and Glasgow be the space of three quarters of a yeer, at which tyme the whole army under the command of David Leslie, or a considerable parte therof, did ly upon the said Sir Robert his lands and destroy the whole cropt of the grund, and plunder his whole horses, the charges and expences whairof the said Sir Robert declares, upon his word of honor, did amount to the sume of one thousand, three hundreth pund[s] sterline. Lastlie, wee find that in the yeer 1648 ther was three troops quartered on his tennents all the tyme the English armie stayed then in Scotland, and that the said army in the yeer 1650 did spoyle his duelling houses and brunt his principall duelling house of Hairhead, and plundered great quantities of horse, nolt, sheip and cornes that he had on the maynes of Blaikerstoun, and other roums stockt with his oun goods, and that the English, after their landing at Innerkeithen, did plunder his houshold stuff, his wiffe and familie being in the house of Spencefeild within a quarter of a myll of the said toun, as also that he lost great quantitie of silver plate, arras hingings, carpets and other houshold plenishing taken away by the Englishes, all sufficiently proven be the depositions of diverse famous witnesses, the which particulars the said Sir Robert Douglas declares, upon his word of honor, amounts to the sume of tuo thousand and fyve hundreth pund[s] sterline; sua that the totall of his sufferings upon the account of his loyaltie, amounts to the sume of seven thousand, eight hundreth [and] threttie-eight punds, threttein shillings [and] four pennies English money. It is, therfor, our humble opinion that the said Sir Robert Douglas, his sufferings and losses extending, as said is, be recordit in the registers of parliament as ane evidence to present and after ages of his constant and untainted loyaltie in the worst of tymes. Subscryved with our hands at Edinburgh, the eighteinth day of Junij 1661 yeers, so subscribit Montrose, Roxburghe, Jo[hn] Gilmour, S[ir] Ar[chibald Stirling, Robert Murray [and] John Bell.
Which report, being taken into consideration be his majesties' commissioner and estates of parliament, they have appointed and appoints the same to be recordit in the books of parliament.
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The report of the committie appointed be the lord commissioner's grace and estates of parliament for tryeing and stateing the accompt of the Lord Herreis his losses, which, after the strictest tryell they could make therof, they find it to be as followes. Inprimis, in the yeer 1639 the Lord Herreis, being necessitat to flie from his house and reteir to Carlile with his ladie and haill familie for his adherence to his majesties' service, the gates of his house of Tarregles wer broken up by the souldiers under the command of Sir Robert Monro, and ane great quantitie of his best houshold stuff and plate plundered and away taken be them, as my lord declares upon his word of honor, to the value of three thousand, three hundreth [and] threttie-three pund[s], sex shilling[s] [and] eight pennies. Item, dureing his absence furth of the cuntrie at that tyme with his ladie and familie he wes, as he lykewayes depones upon his word of honor, at the extraordinary charges and expences of three thousand, three hundreth [and] threttie-three pund[s], sex shilling [and] eight pennies. Item, the Lord Herreis furnisht for keeping out the house of Carlaverock perteaneing to the earle of Nithisdale, for his majesties' service, tuo brass guns, the one of 1,000 libs weight and the other 400 pund[s] weight, estimat at 18 shillings Scots the pund weight, extends to the sume of one thousand, one hundreth and fourty pund[s]. Item, tuo yron guns, the one carieing ane ball of four pund[s] and the other ane ball of tuo pund[s] weight, estimat to the sume of three hundreth pund[s]. Item, tuentie double musquets at tuelff pund[s] Scots the peice, inde tuo hundreth [and] fourty pund[s]. Item, fourtie carabines at tuelve pund[s] Scots the peice, inde four hundreth and eightie pund[s]. Item, tuo hundreth pikes at three pund[s] Scots the peice, inde in all sex hundreth pund[s]. Item, other tuentie double musquets sent at the same tyme to furnish and keep out his majesties' oune house of Threve in Galloway, at tuelve pund[s] Scots the peice, inde tuo hundreth and fourty pund[s], thir preceiding articles anent the guns proven be witnesses. Item, in Aprile 1644, when the forces under the command of the earle of Calander wer sent to Dumfreis, the laird of Lamingtoun wes quartered in the Lord Herreis' house of Tarregles with threttie horse the space of tuentie-three dayes and tuentie-four foot for eight days upon frie quarters, as is proven by witnesses, extending the said frie quarter at 18 shilllings Scots per diem the horse and man, and sex shilling[s] Scots the foot, in all to sex hundreth [and] seventie-eight pund[s], tuelve shilling[s]. Item, the same yeer 1644 the lord Herreis, for his joyning in armes with the marques of Montrose, wes forfalt and his haill rent and estate intrometted with for the use of the publict, the cropes 1644 and 1645 being ten thousand, sex hundreth [and] sextie-sex pund[s], threttein shilling[s] [and] four pennies Scots per annum, according to his oune declaration upon his word of honor, inde for the tuo yeers rent tuentie-one thousand, three hundreth [and] threttie-three pund[s], sex shilling[s] [and] eight pennies. Item, for the annualrent of the said sume from Mertymes 1645 to Witsunday 1661, being fiftein yeers and ane halff, at sex per cent, in all nyntein thousand, eight hundreth and fourty pund[s]. Item, in the yeer 1645 the Lord Herres, being with the late king's majestie at Duncaster† and being seik, wes then taken prissoner be Major Leilburne and, as he declares upon his word of honor, ther wes taken from him be the said major one hundreth pund[s] sterline of gold, inde tuelve hundreth pund[s]. Item, the annualrent of that summe from Witsunday 1645 to Witsunday 1661, being sextein yeers at sex per centum, inde in all one thousand, one hundreth [and] fiftie-tuo pund[s]. Item, the Lord Herreis, being releived about a moneth therafter be David Leslie, he wes robed upon the Borders and his horse, bagage and moneys all taken from him to the value of sextie pund[s] sterline, as he declares upon his word of honor, inde seven hundreth [and] tuentie pund[s]. Item, in the yeer 1647 the committie of estates did impose upon the Lord Herres ane fyne of ten thousand pund[s] Scots which he payed to the Lord Kirkudbright's regiment as is justlie instructed be the recepts. Item, for the annualrent of the said summe from Witsunday 1647 to Witsunday 1661, being fourtein yeers, inde in all fourtein thousand, tuo hundreth† pund[s]. Item, in the yeer 1649 the pretendit comittie of war of the stewartrie of Kirkcudbright, upon the accompt of disaffectednes, as they termed it, did force the Lord Herres to put out horse and foote and raised out of his estate nyne moneths' mantenance, amounting in all, as is instructed, to the sume of tuo thousand, fyve hundreth and tuentie pund[s]. Item, for the annualrent of the said sume from Witsunday 1649 to Witsunday 1661, being tuelve yeers at sex per centum, inde one thousand, eight hundreth and tuelve pund[s]. The abovewritten summs amounts, in the whole, to the sume of threscore, seventein thousand, three hundreth [and] tuentie and tuo pund[s], tuelve shilling[s] Scots money, which is besides the unsupportable burden of cess and quarterings the Lord Herres wes lyable to, with the rest of the kingdome, dureing the late unhappie troubles. Sic subscribitur, Montrose, Roxburghe, J. Gilmour, S[ir] Archibald Stirling, Robert Murray [and] John Bell.
Which report, being taken into consideration be the lord commissioner and estats of parliament, they appointed and appoints the same to be recorded in the books of parliament.
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The earles of Dumfreis and Callander, the Lord Carden and commissioners for Stirline and Air, appointed by the lord commissioner his grace and the lords of the articles to take tryell of the losses sustained be the Lord Colingtoun, doe find that in anno 1648 he depursed sex thousand, sex hundreth pund[s] Scots of his oune propper money upon the leveying of ane regiment of horse for his majesties' service, and that by and attour the great expences he wes at after the defeate at Prestoun. Item, finds, by the testificat of severall gentlemen, his nighbours that, in the yeer 1650, he had his whole tennent houses, barnes, byres and haill onsets in the toun and lands of Newmayns, Craiglockhart and Bowbridge totallie brunt by the usurper's armie, all which are estimat by the saids gentlemen to four thousand pund[s] Scots. Item, it is certified by the said gentlemen that he had his whole plenishing within the maner place of Colingtoun brunt or taken away by the saids usurpers, and that all the doors and windowes, yron work and much of the loftein and rooff wer brunt, pulled doun and destroyed or taken away by the saids usurpers, and that he had severall other houses, barns and byres in Colingtoun brunt and much of his planting cut, all estimat by the saids gentlemen to ten thousand pund[s] Scots money. Item, that he had his whole cornes and others stock upon the mayns of Colintoun, then laboured and possest by himselff and his oune servants, all destroyed and taken away, estimat by the saids gentlemen to three thousand [and] threttie-three pund[s] Scots. Item, it is certified by a great many gentlemen heritors within the paroche of Westkirk, and under their hands, that the said Lord Colingtoun in the yeer 1650 had his maner house of Boningtoun, and the whole tennent houses, barns and onsets belonging therto, destroyed and brunt, estimat by the saids gentlemen to sex thousand pund[s] Scots. Item, finds that when he wes taken prissoner at Eliot ther wes taken from him in gold, money, jewells and horses to the value of three thousand pund[s] Scots money. Item, his whole estate being waste in the yeers 1650 and 1651, as also sequestrat by the usurpers till the yeer 1654, his estate then consisting of the baronie of Colingtoun, baronie of Ratho and lands of Boningtoun, being yeerly worth tuelff thousand, tuo hundreth punds Scots money, conforme to the rentall produced, his losse of the saids four yeers rents defalking one thousand, three hundreth [and] threttie-four pund[s] receaved out of the lands of Ratho, together with tuo thousand pund[s] reckoned in the former article as ane yeer's rent of the Park and Maines of Colingtoun, amounts to fourty-fyve thousand [and] threttie-three pund[s] Scots. Summa of the whole losses abovewritten, extends to seventie-seven thousand, sex hundreth [and] sextie-sex pund[s], and it is our humble opinion that the saids losses should be recorded in the books of parliament. Sic subscribitur, W. Dumfries, Calander, S[ir] Archibald Stirling, Duncane Nairne [and] Williame Cwnynghame.
Which report, being taken into consideration be the lord commissioner and estates of parliament, they have appointed and appoints the same to be recorded in the books of parliament.
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We the earles Dumfreis and Callander, the lords of Colingtoun and Carden, and the commissioners from the burghs of Stirling and Air, appointed by the lord commissioner's grace and lords of the articles to consider the losses sustained by the laird of Polmais and to report the same, doe find that in anno 1648 the laird of Polmais had his lands of Torbrecks, Cambusbarron and Shiphaugh, and lands lyand about St Ninians Kirk, totallie destroyed by the forces who wer at Stirline in opposition to his majesties' armie commanded by the earles of Crafford and Lanerick, and that his losse wes of corne to the value of tuo thousand, four hundreth pund[s], the vastation of the forsaids lands haveing been attested by tuo of their oune number. Item, find that after the defate at Dumbar and Innerkeithen the usurpers did spoyle and away take of houshold plenishing and furniture to the value of tuo thousand, four hundreth punds from him. Item, finds that in the yeer 1650 and 1651 his whole estate wes layd waste and destroyed, partlie by his majesties' armies in Stirline and Park thairof and partlie by the usurper's armie after his majestie marched into England, and that his losses sustained therthrow amounts to tuenty-fyve thousand, three hundreth [and] threttie-three punds, as wes declared upon oath by tuo famous gentlemen. Item, finds he had of his wood cutted and destroyed by his majesties' armie at Stirling to the value of sex hundreth [and] threescore sex punds, threttein shilling[s] [and] four pennies. Item, finds that the said laird of Polmais lost at Worcester, in horse, moneys and other necessaries, the sume of three thousand, sex hundreth punds, and that he sustained great losse and prejudice by being a constant prissoner dureing the usurper's power. Item, finds that his whole estate, haveing been sequestrat in annis 1652, 1653 and 1654 by the usurpers, he wes damnified in the sume of sextein thousand pund[s], which, with the interest since that time, amounts to tuentie-tuo thousand, seven hundreth [and] tuentie punds. Item, finds, by tuo discharges produced, that the laird of Polmais payed of fyne to the usurpers the sume of fyve hundreth pund[s] sterline, which, with the interest since Witsunday 1654, extends to eight thousand, fyve hundreth [and] tuentie punds. Summa of the abovewritten losses, extends to threescore, fyve thousand, sex hundreth [and] threttie-nyn pund[s], threttein shilling[s] [and] four pennies, and it is our humble opinion that the losses abovewritten should be recorded in the books of parliament. Sic subscribitur, W. Dumfries, Calander, S[ir] Archibald Stirling, James Foulis, Duncane Nairne [and] Williame Cwnynghame.
Which report, being taken into consideration be the lord commissioner and estates of parliament, they have appointed and appoints the same to be recorded in the books of parliament.