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Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, having heard and considered a petition given in to them by Margaret Bisset, widow of the late Andrew Reid, merchant burgess of Perth, Isobel, Elizabeth, Katherine and Marjory Reid, his daughters, showing that the king's majesty, being resident at Perth and Stirling in the years 1650 and 1651, the said Andrew Reid, out of his great love and affection, did cheerfully advance and furnish for the use of his majesty's royal person, house, servants and attendants (by his majesty's special command and precepts superscribed by his majesty's hand and by warrants from the commissioners for the treasury for the time) and several commodities amounting to a considerable sum of money, as the particular warrants and receipts will instruct and verify, whereby the said Andrew Reid did contract great debts, and for the which commodities and other sums of money advanced by him he has neither got payment nor annualrent for the same, notwithstanding of the foresaid precepts and warrants, and craving that some course may be taken for the petitioners' satisfaction of the sums contained in the foresaid precepts and warrants and annualrents of the same, that the petitioners' debts might be paid and their utter ruin prevented. And having considered a report from the lords of the articles, our sovereign lord and estates of parliament do hereby give warrant to messengers of arms to summon Mr Robert Preston, sometime collector of the assessments of Perth, Walter Cochrane, sometime collector of the assessments of Aberdeen, and Mr Thomas Stewart, sometime collector of the assessments of Kincardine, to compear before the estates of parliament or lords of his majesty's secret council or exchequer the [---] day of [---] next to come, to give an account whether they have made payment in whole or in part of any of the sums contained in the several precepts directed to them, with certification, letters of horning shall be directed forth to charge them for that effect, and also do recommend to the said lords of secret council or exchequer to clear and fit the said petitioners' accounts and to give such satisfaction as shall be found justly due to them; and in the meantime, do grant protection to the said petitioners from all personal and real execution at the instance of their creditors to endure until 1 November next to come or longer, as the said lords of his majesty's secret council or exchequer shall think fit.