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Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament having at length heard, seen and considered a supplication presented by Elizabeth Murray, lawful daughter to the late Sir John Murray of Philiphaugh, and widow of the late Mr Robert Knox, minister at Kelso, and in name of her children, showing that from the death of the said late Mr Robert Knox, the supplicant's husband, which was in May 1658, the kirk of Kelso, whereat he was minister, had continually remained vacant until the year 1660 so that there was of that stipend at his majesty and estates of parliament their disposal, and the whole heritors liable in payment of the said stipend, considering the faithfulness of the petitioner's husband in discharge of the duties of his calling and being sensible of the petitioner's present condition, are content to pay the same to the petitioner for herself and children if warrant were granted for that effect; therefore, craving that warrant and command might be given to the heritors and others liable in payment of the said stipend to pay the vacant stipend to the petitioner for herself and children, she being the widow of so faithful and honest a minister of the Gospel whose sufferings of late, for his affection and loyalty to his majesty, was not unknown to many members of parliament, as the petition bears. With a report made and given by the lords and other commissioners appointed for hearing of bills his majesty, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, have approved and approves the same report and grants warrant to Mr John Wilkie, collector of the vacant stipends, to pay to the petitioner the bygones of the above-written stipend from the month of May 1656 until the year 1660 the time of the entry of the present incumbent.