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[Index of the acts of parliament passed in the seventh session of the second triennial parliament, 13 March 1651 to 31 March 1651]

Acts done and passed in the seventh session of the second triennial parliament held at Perth, begun upon 13 March 1651 and ending on 31 March 1651†

• 13 March 1651
• †Act nominating [Robert Balfour], lord [Balfour of] Burleigh to be president of parliament for this session of parliament
• †Instruments taken by [Archibald Campbell], marquis of Argyll upon the production of the honours
• †Commission to the committee of bills
• †Commission for the committee of overtures
• †Commission for the military affairs
• Commission for the conference
• †Commission for revising the acts of the committee of estates
• †Act adding certain persons to the committee of grievances

• 14 March 1651
• †Act anent a month's maintenance to be paid by the whole shires north of the River Forth
• †Act ordaining £10 of £15 received by the colonels of horse of the new levy to be given to [Sir John Smith of Grotehill], commissary-general†
• †Act anent the mustering of the whole regiments of horse on this side of Aberdeen and containing therein the instructions
• †Act ordaining two regiments of horse to be removed from Perthshire and three regiments of horse from the shire of Fife
• †Recommendation to the committee of grievances in favour of Captain Lieutenant Crawford, Captain Lieutenant Buntine and Cornet James Syme
• †Commission to certain persons anent the finding out of arms and ammunition
• †Commission anent the bailies of Burntisland
• †Act anent the lamed soldiers
• †Order for the committee of war of Fife for carriage of victual from Newburgh to Stirling, with assurance of payment for any further service if it shall be required
• †Orders for examining witnesses anent the castle of Edinburgh

• 15 March 1651
• Orders for General Major John Leslie and [...], bailie of Burntisland, to appear before the parliament, and the charge of the town given to Sir John Brown until his return
• †Commission anent James Wilson and Duncan Nairn
• †Commission granted for revaluing the sheriffdom of Bute
• †Commission granted for revaluing the sheriffdom of Kinross

• 17 March 1651
• †Act discharging the service whereby James Bruce of Powfoulis was ordained to be served heir to his father
• †Commission for visiting the university of Glasgow
• †Dispensation to the commissaries of Glasgow and Hamilton to sit
• †List of the committee of war of the shire of Bute and commission granted to them
• †Warrant given to John Denny, merchant, for transporting of victual from Orkney to the west country
• †Order to the committee of war of the shire of Fife anent the quartering of the king's regiment
• †Remit anent the condition of those of the south side of the River Forth to the king's majesty

• 19 March 1651
• †Act anent the sitting of the commissaries of Edinburgh
• †Act ordaining [Sir John Wauchope], laird of Niddrie-[Marischal] to have the charge of his brother's troop

• 20 March 1651
• †Order from his majesty and the parliament to Sir Archibald Johnston [of Wariston], clerk register, to go to Edinburgh anent the taking of the registers and to deal for bringing of them back, with power to the committee for military affairs to give him his instructions in writing for that effect
• †Order from his majesty and the parliament to the committee of bills for directing forth of precepts for citation of the debtors of Colonel Archibald Strachan to compear before the parliament or committee of estates, to make payment of such sums of money as they are owing to him.
• †Commission to two ordinary and two extraordinary lords of session anent William Baxter's complaint against Arnott

• 21 March 1651
• †Act nominating and appointing Sir Robert Moray to be lord justice clerk
• †Act in favour of General Major Montgomery
• †Supplication given in by the parish of Minnigaff remitted to the committee of war of the shire of Wigtown
• †Remit heritors of Forfar to the committee of war thereof
• †Act in favour of the four ordinary macers of parliament and session
• Act in favour of General Major John Leslie
• †Act ordaining such as give information of any who have exacted money for men or horses to have the half of the pain determined against them
• †Act discharging officers or soldiers to exact money in their quarters
• †Act in favour of the parishioners of Cardross
• †Act anent the train of artillery and in favour of the general thereof†
• †Act anent the furnishing of spades and shovels for the army
• †Act in favour of Thomas Cunningham as commissioner for Mr Lampson
• †Two commissions anent [Sir James Hope], laird of Hopetoun and Katherine Walker's houses in Edinburgh
• †Recommendation in favour of the parishioners of Morvingsyde, Slamannan and Falkirk
• †Act in favour of the bonnet-makers of Dundee
• †Warrant to [Patrick Dundas of] Breast Mill for carrying of victual
• †Act in favour of John Gullane
• †Act George Bruce against the laird of Balmuto
• †Act in favour of Valentine Napier
• †Act in favour of the parishioners of Blacklunans
• Act in favour of James Reid
• Commission to John Short, provost of Stirling

• 22 March 1651
• †Commission granted to [George Livingstone], earl of Linlithgow and others therein contained anent the wrong done to certain English gentlemen
• †Order for the whole regiment quartermasters to proceed to Stirling to take trial of the victual laid in for the several regiments

• 24 March 1651
• †Representation from [Archibald Campbell], lord marquis of Argyll, master of the household to his majesty, for himself and in name of the other commissioners for the treasury, anent the condition of his majesty's house, to which representation the other commissioners of the treasury to [John Campbell, earl of Loudoun], lord chancellor, and [Sir Daniel Carmichael of Hyndford], treasurer depute, adhered
• †The oath given in by the commissioners of the general assembly
• †Act in favour of Andrew Blair
• †Act continuing [Alexander Leslie], earl of Leven, lord general, his excellency, to be general of the army
• †Act in favour of the parishioners of Kirkpatrick and Lenzie

• 25 March 1651
• †Act ordaining the companies of the regiment of his majesty's foot guard to be recruited
• †Act in favour of William Simpson, bailie of Dysart
• †Act in favour of the parishioners of Kirkmichael and Inverewin
• †Act of restitution of Lewis Gordon against the decreet and sentence of forfeiture led and prosecuted against [George Gordon], late marquis of Huntly and restoring him to the honour and dignity of being marquis of Huntly and estate thereof
• †Act and declaration by his majesty and parliament anent the restitution of any who shall be restored against the sentence of forfeiture

• 26 March 1651
• †Act ordaining all citations and other executions against parties who are out of the country which were before at the market cross of Edinburgh and pier and shore of Leith to be now at the market cross of Perth and shore of Burntisland
• †Act anent the estates and means in this kingdom belonging to those who adhered to the rebellion in England
• †Act in favour of the tenants of Enzie, Strathbogie, Carbrach and Gartly
• †Commission Mr David Campbell against [Sir Patrick Ogilvie of] Inchmartine, [Sir Thomas Blair of] Balthayock and others†
• †Act in favour of the heritors of Pert, Stracathro etc.

• 28 March 1651
• †Act where Sir Robert Moray, formerly nominated by his majesty and the parliament to be justice clerk, compeared in parliament, and being required to accept of the said place and to give his oath for faithful discharge thereof, did accept of the said charge and made faith for faithful administration in the discharge thereof
• †Act in favour of the widow of Captain MacNab
• †Act anent the recruiting of the regiment belonging to General Major Robert Montgomery
• †Act liberating [Sir Robert Campbell], laird of Glenorchy from putting out horse in this present levy
• †Commission to the committee for managing the affairs of the army
• †Act wherein his majesty, with consent of parliament, nominates certain persons to be colonels in the several shires south of the River Forth
• †Protestation [Sir Alexander Belsches of] Tofts against the joining of Lauderdale with the shire of Haddington
• †Protestation [James Douglas], laird of Mouswald against the joining of the five churches of Esdale to the shire of Roxburgh
• †Supplication laird of Preston anent the burning of his evidents remitted to the committee of estates
• †Act in favour of the town of Culross
• †Act in favour of the town of Kirkcaldy
• †Act ordaining the sum of £3,000 owing to Colonel Strachan to be uplifted by John Scott, master wright
• †Remit [John Murray], earl of Atholl

• 29 March 1651
• †Act ordaining all victual for the use of the king's house to be free of excise
• †Act ordaining the whole shires who put out this present levy to advance for their foot army 20 days' provision over and above 40 days already ordained
• †Act bearing Sir Robert Moray, lord justice clerk, (being nominated by his majesty and parliament) to be one of majesty's privy council, did compear and accept the said charge and made faith for faithful administration therein
• †Ratification of an act of the committee of estates made in favour of Sir Archibald Primrose
• †Ratification of a gift given and granted by his majesty to the said Sir Archibald Primrose as clerk to his majesty's privy council and writer of the commissions to the justices of peace, and bearing the said Sir Archibald Primrose to have accepted the said charge and made faith for faithful administration therein
• †Act in favour of the town of Dunfermline
• †Act in favour of the towns of St Andrews, Crail and Anstruther
• †Act in favour of the town of Kinghorn
• †Act in favour of John Campbell of Edinample

• 31 March 1651
• †Letter from Adrian and Cornelius Lampson to the parliament remitted to the committee of estates, with power to them to take course for their satisfaction
• †Remit from the parliament to the committee of estates to make up the king's regiment out of first levies and to make the same complete
• †Act ordaining the price of every horse which are to be or are already put out for his majesty's servants to be £15 sterling the piece
• †Remit to the committee for the army anent the garrison of Stirling
• †Act anent the punishment to those who have been or shall be entrusted with the charge of the army and have deserted the same and resorted to the common enemy†
• †Act anent those who have been entrusted with keeping of the castles of Edinburgh, Stirling or Dumbarton and have rendered or shall render any of them to the enemy
• †Act anent the overvaluing of the rates of gold and money
• †Act ordaining one full month's maintenance to be paid by the whole shires over and above all former impositions
• †Act anent collecting £108,000 for defraying the expenses of his majesty's journey in his coming home
• †The process pursued against [Walter Dundas], laird of Dundas, Colonel Strachan and other persons therein contained remitted to the committee of estates and to be decided and determined by them
• †Act anent the payment of imposts on wine
• †Commission for visiting the mint-house of Dundee
• †Remit from the parliament to the committee of estates anent the addition of certain persons to the committee of monies
• †Remit from the parliament to the committee for the army to take course anent the carriage of meal from Montrose to the army
• †Supplication given in by [Sir Patrick Myreton], laird of Cambo to the committee of estates, with power to determine
• †Act in favour of [Colonel James Wemyss], general of artillery
• †Commission to the committee of estates
• †Letter from his majesty and parliament to the moderator of the commission of the general assembly
• †Declaration emitted by his majesty (being humbly supplicated to accept the command of the army upon himself) whereby his majesty declares he would take upon himself the command thereof
• †Remit [William Ker], earl of Roxburghe and [Harry Ker], lord Ker's children against [Lady Isobel Douglas], countess of Roxburghe to the committee of estates
• †Remit and the restitution of Sir Robert Dalzell to his honour and dignity as earl of Carnwath to the committee of estates
• †Act in favour of the town of Kinghorn
• †Act and recommendation in favour of Mr David and Mr John Hay, clerks of parliament
• †Instruments taken by [Hugh Montgomery], lord Montgomery, in name of [William Keith], earl Marischal, anent the reproduction of the honours, namely: crown, sceptre and sword, which were delivered to [Archibald Campbell], lord marquis of Argyll, in name of the commissioners for the treasury
• †Remitted to his majesty and committee of estates to consider how the warrants of parliament and his majesty's great charter containing the tailzie of the crown should be kept
• †Act in favour of General [James] King, [lord Eythin]
• †Act remitting all bills and supplications given in to the parliament to the committee of estates, with power to them to determine therein or remit the same to other judicatories
• †Act adding Mr Alexander Colville, younger, of Blair to the committee of war of Fife
• †Ratification of a gift of legitimisation granted by his majesty to George Elphinstone, son to the laird of Selmes
• †Ratification of a gift granted by [Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston], clerk register, to Mr John Dickson of his place as dictator of the rolls of exchequer and others mentioned therein
• Act in favour of General [James] King, lord Eythin
• †Act salvo jure cujuslibet
• †Act continuing the parliament to 17 April next to come

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