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Forasmuch as the king's majesty, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, has by public act of 25 January last appointed all vacant stipends to be employed for relief and reparation of the losses of those ministers and the wives and bairns of such of them as are dead, who have been deprived, suspended or otherwise put to suffering for their loyalty and affection to his majesty, in such manner as shall be appointed by the lords of his majesty's privy council; and it being necessary that some person of known integrity be employed for collecting the said vacant stipends, therefore his majesty, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, nominates and appoints Mr John Wilkie of Broomhouse to be collector of the said vacant stipends, with power and commission to him and his substitutes, for whom he shall be answerable, to make exact trial where any stipends are, or shall be vacant conforming to the act aforesaid, and to call for, uplift and receiving the same and give discharges thereupon which shall be sufficient exoneration to the parties who pay. As also, with power to him and his substitutes to call for all bygone vacant stipends not already disposed of by any public order, and to intromit with and uplift the same, and to do everything for the collecting and gathering in of the said vacant stipends which appertains and according as he shall receive order from the lords of his majesty's privy council, to whom the disposal of the said stipends is by his majesty and parliament remitted. And ordains general letters of horning to be directed at the instance of the said Mr John Wilkie and failing of him any other collector to be nominated by the lords of his majesty's privy council for the time upon a simple charge of 15 days in form as appropriate.