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Supplication Mr Robert Farquhar [of Mounie]
The humble supplication of Mr Robert Farquhar to the honourable estates of parliament. Humbly shows, that I long since having supplicated your lords to take my distressed condition for the public into consideration and to grant me some relief that I should not be suffered to perish and sink under the burdens contracted for the public, your lords were pleased to remit me to Sir John Smith [of Grotehill's] committee, who did consider the said supplication and my accounts and former acts of parliament made in my favour, and found resting to me clearly at the term of Whitsunday [13 May] 1649 £190,859 1s 2d; and did give their opinion and make their report to your lords that, in regard of my pressing burdens and urgent necessities and great sufferings for the public, both in my person and estate, I should be assigned to the whole fines and forfeitures of delinquents already fined or to be fined, and to the rest of any public dues yet in collectors' hands or otherwise resting and uncollected preceding 1 October last until I was paid of my annualrent and a considerable part of my said principal sum, without prejudice of former assignations; and also that I should be assigned to the half of the whole excise north of the River Tay after 1 May 1650, at which time the present tacks thereof are to expire; and in the meantime, until the said tacks should expire, that I should have precept upon [Sir James Stewart of Kirkfield and Coltness], commissary-general, for some considerable thing for my present subsistence and relief. Which report being read in audience of parliament, it pleased your lords to grant me the sum of £2,000 sterling out of the fines and forfeitures and rests in collectors' hands, with reservation of former assignations, and did appoint the committee for Lampsons' business to find out a way to satisfy me of £500 sterling over and above the said £2,000 and that in part payment to me of the aforesaid sum due to me by the public. And now finding the parliament drawing near to a close and that there is no way found out by the said committee for my satisfaction in the least measure, I do yet humbly desire your lords to consider my sad condition, and either grant me assignation to the half of the excise north of the River Tay after 1 May 1650, or some other effectual way of relief at least for a considerable proportion of the sum due to me, at least that your lords would be pleased (in case your lords have not time to take it presently into consideration) to remit and recommend this my supplication to the committee of estates, with power to them to consider and determine etc. And your lords' answer I do humbly crave.
Edinburgh, 7 August 1649
The estates of parliament remit and seriously recommend the supplication above-written, with the desire of the committee contained therein, to the committee of estates, with power to them to give satisfaction to the supplicant according to his desire, or at least to find out some other effectual way of his relief, and to determine therein as they shall think fit.†
[John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament