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Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, taking to consideration a supplication given in by the Lord and Lady Napier, bearing that there was a commission granted to [John Buchanan], laird of Buchanan by the late committee of estates upon 13 September 1660 for apprehending of Robert Buchanan, younger, and John Campbell in Torry, they being decreed fugitives, and to imprison and secure them for a cruel deed admitted† by them in cutting off the right ear and plundering the house of Robert MacAlpine, one of the petitioners' tenants in the parish of Ruskie, and diverse other ways, as the commission of the date foresaid at more length purports, and now the said laird of Buchanan, pretending himself not able to apprehend the said Robert Buchanan, younger, and John Campbell, they being turned vagabonds and of no settled residence; therefore, craving that the foresaid commission might be renewed to all magistrates of burghs, sheriffs of shires, stewarts of stewartries, lords and bailies of regalities, and all other his majesty's officers and ministers of law within this kingdom, to cause apprehend, secure and imprison the persons foresaid where ever they can be apprehended, as the said supplication more fully purports. Therefore, our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of his estates in parliament, has given and granted and hereby gives and grants power and commission to magistrates of burghs, stewarts of stewartries, lords and bailies of regalities, and all other his majesty's officers, to apprehend, secure and imprison the persons complained upon above that justice may be inflicted upon them according to law.
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Anent the petition given in to his majesty's commissioner and estates of parliament by Mr John Ross, minister at the kirk of Brass,† showing that albeit the petitioner be re-admitted to the exercise and function of his calling of the ministry at the said kirk of Brass, wherefrom he was debarred for the space of twelve years bygone, yet, nevertheless, Mr John Young, late minister at the said kirk, and who enjoyed the benefit and uplifted the stipend thereof during that space, though he be now deposed from his ministry for his treasonable speeches and upon other just grounds, yet he still possesses the petitioner's manse and houses thereof at the said kirk, and will not remove therefrom and possess the petitioner therein; supplicating therefore, the lord commissioner and estates of parliament to pass an act ordaining the said Mr John Young to flit and remove himself, his wife, bairns, family, goods and gear furth and from the said manse and houses thereof, and to leave the same void and ready with such fixed work and timber plenishing therein as was within the same at his entry thereto, and in as good state and condition as he received the same, and to enter the said petitioner to the void, real and peaceable possession thereof, to be bruiked and enjoyed by him during his lifetime at his pleasure, in manner and at length mentioned in the said petition. Which, being at length read, heard and considered, our sovereign lord, with consent of the estates of parliament, decrees and ordains the said Mr John Young to flit and remove himself, his wife, bairns, family, goods and gear furth and from the said manse and houses thereof, and to desist and cease therefrom and leave the same void and ready presently, with such fixed work and timber plenishing therein as was within the same at his entry thereto, and in as good state and condition as he received the same, and to enter the said Mr John Ross to the void, real and actual possession of the same to be bruiked and enjoyed by him at his pleasure during his lifetime, and his serving the cure at the said kirk, and ordains letters of horning to be directed upon a simple charge of fifteen days.
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Anent the petition given in to the lord commissioner and estates of parliament by Mr William Home, minister at Ayton, showing that the petitioner was lawfully admitted to the kirk of Ayton in the year 1653 but, by the prevailing usurping power, he was violently bereft of his stipend for the space of two years for his loyalty and opposition to the remonstrating party, which stipend extends yearly, in victual and money, to the sum of 1,200 merks Scots, and seeing vacant stipends are appointed to be employed for relief of distressed ministers that have suffered for their loyalty; humbly therefore, desiring a warrant to Mr John Wilkie, collector of the vacant stipends, for making payment to the petitioner, out of the first and readiest of the vacant stipends, of the sum of 2,400 merks Scots, equivalent to the said sum violently taken from him by the usurpers, as the petition bears. Which, being read in the presence of the lord commissioner and lords of the articles, and at length considered by them, they, by their report made to the estates of parliament, declared it was their opinion that the said Mr William Home should be repossessed to the serving of the cure at the kirk of Ayton and payment made to him of the whole stipend whereof he was formerly in possession, and that Mr John Wilkie, collector of the vacant stipends, be ordained to pay to him the said two years' stipend. And which petition and report foresaid, being read and considered by the estates of parliament, they approved the same report and therefore, our sovereign lord, with consent of the said estates of parliament, ordains the said Mr William Home to be repossessed to his function in serving the cure at the said kirk of Ayton, and that payment be made to him of the whole stipend whereof he was formerly in possession, and also ordains the said Mr John Wilkie, collector of the vacant stipend, to make payment to the said Mr William of the said two years' stipend of 2,400 merks which was violently taken from him by the usurpers, furth of the vacant stipends appointed for suffering ministers.
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Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, taking to consideration a supplication given in by Barbara Gledstanes, widow of the late Mr George Martin, for herself and in name and behalf of her children, bearing her said late husband to have been lawfully admitted to the third master's place of the old college of St Andrews, and thereby had right to the sum of 1,200 merks yearly as the salary belonging to the said charge in the which he served for the space of three years; likewise, thereafter, he was admitted to the second master's place of the said old college where (after he had served ten years) was for his loyalty compelled to desert his charge by the late usurper, and as second master he had likewise right to the salary of 1,200 merks yearly; likewise, for the last six of the said ten years he officiated as first master or provost, his right to the said first master's place being undoubtable, but his admission only interrupted by the said usurper and, albeit the said late Mr George did serve in the said college in manner foresaid, yet there was resting owing to him by the said college at his removal therefrom the sum of 1,200 merks yearly the said three years as third master; as also, the sum of 600 merks money yearly the years of God 1654, 1655 and 1656 of his salary as second master, in addition to what he should have had for officiating as provost or first master by the space of the said six years, which ought to be modified at the least to the sum of 300 merks yearly; as likewise, there was owing to the said Mr George five quarters of a year's diet, commonly reckoned to £46 quarterly, extending the said diet in the whole to the sum of £230, and which sums of money particularly above-written were never paid, neither to the said late Mr George Martin before his death and not since to his widow and children, as the said supplication more fully purports. Our said sovereign lord, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, have ordained and ordains the said Barbara Gledstanes and her children to be answered, obeyed and paid of what sums of money or salaries was resting owing unpaid to the said late Mr George Martin for his service in the said old college of St Andrews, and ordains letters and executorials of horning to be directed at the instance of the said Barbara Gledstanes or her said children against the factors, collectors or sub-collectors of the said old college rents, for making payment to her and her said children of what of the foresaid sums is resting unpaid, upon a simple charge of fifteen days if need be.
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Anent the petition given in to the lord commissioner his grace and honourable estates of parliament by Mr Martin MacPherson, minister at Kilmuir, showing that the petitioner, having obtained a decreet of spoliation before the sheriff of the Western Isles against John MacRanald, elder, captain of MacRanald in the month of July 1658, for payment to him of a certain sum of money due by the said captain of MacRanald to him for the wrongful spoliation from the said petitioner of his whole cows, horse, nolt, sheep, corns and household plenishings belonging to him at that time, by the which he was necessitated to leave the Isle of Uist and shelter himself and family under the protection of the deceased John MacLeod of Dunvegan, and thereby reduced to the extremity of want of means and food to himself and family, of the which sum the said John MacRanald, elder, as yet refuses to make payment to the petitioner unless remedy at law be provided; likewise, when Colonel Cobbett came by sea to the Isle of Skye for reducing the inhabitants thereof from their due and lawful obedience and loyalty to his sacred majesty to the tyranny and usurpation of the late usurpers, the said Colonel Cobbett and his soldiers most barbarously, inhumanely and cruelly (long after the said spoliation) did plunder the said petitioner of all his goods, gear, horse, sheep and nolt, to the value of the sum of £1,000 Scots money, whereby he is altogether unable to do either for his own or his family's subsistence; supplicating, therefore, the lord commissioner his grace and honourable estates of parliament to grant warrant to the petitioner to have letters of horning and all other legal execution against the said captain for payment of the sums contained in the said decreet, and that they would grant some allowance to him out of the vacant stipends of the presbytery of Skye and other presbyteries next adjacent, for reparation of his losses in some measure, as the petition at more length bears. Which, being read in the presence of the lord commissioner and estates of parliament, and at length by them considered, our sovereign lord, with consent of the estates of parliament, has given and granted and hereby gives and grants warrant and command to the keeper of his majesty's signet to signet letters of horning, and all other letters and legal execution, to be raised at the instance of the petitioner upon the foresaid decreet obtained by him before the sheriff of the Western Isles against the said John MacRanald, captain of the MacRanald, for payment of the sums of money contained in the same decreet, and also hereby appoints and ordains Mr John Wilkie, collector of the vacant stipends, to pay to the said Mr Martin MacPherson, petitioner, furth of the vacant stipends of the presbytery of Skye and next adjacent presbyteries, the sum of £150 sterling for reparation of his losses in some measure.