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Supplication Colonel Gilbert Kerr on behalf of the party in the north
26 June 1649
The humble desire of Colonel Kerr on behalf of the party that was in the north
That since the parliament has been pleased to give the troopers of the party 3,000 merks in gratuity and 1,000 for those of them that are wounded, I humbly desire that your lords would be pleased to order that the aforesaid sums would be made presently effectual for supplying their present necessities, or otherwise that everything that was in the garrisons of Ross which was possessed by the said party may be given to them in place of the said aforesaid sum of 3,000 merks, and that the wounded soldiers may have the other 1,000 presently for defraying of what they are due to their surgeons and their other necessities. Likewise I humbly desire that some effectual course may be taken for paying our troops their last three months' pay, without which they are not able to subsist, it being known that we satisfied our quarters so punctually when we had any thing to do upon, which has so exhausted us that many of them have nothing with which to cover their nakedness, and without which it will be impossible to make them give obedience to your commands in marching to Ross, especially they having come here to provide themselves in necessaries which, without money, they are not able to do. And therefore I humbly desire that your lords would take our condition into your consideration and return to us an answer, which shall oblige to remain what we are, your lords' humble and obedient servants.
Edinburgh, 26 June 1649
The estates of parliament grant the first alternative expressed in the supplication above-written, namely: that either 3,000 merks be paid to the supplicant or that he have retention, according to the desire of the bill, and appoint [Robert Arbuthnott, viscount of] Arbuthnott, [Alexander Brodie], laird of Brodie and Alexander Jaffray to bring in a report anent the most effectual way of paying that gratuity formerly granted to the wounded soldiers above-mentioned, as also concerning the payment of three months' pay to the troops above-specified, as also concerning the gratuity formerly granted to the officers for how it may be made effectual, though this particular be not mentioned in the supplication above-written.
[John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament