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The king's majesty, considering the great discouragement given to manufactories and trades by tradesmen bringing home from foreign places such commodities as may be made within the kingdom by these of the same trade; does therefore, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, inhibit and discharge all tradesmen and mechanics to import from foreign parts any made work belonging to that trade or calling whereof they are freemen, or to vend the same or any such ware brought home by merchants in their shops or otherwise, under the pain of confiscation, the one half to his majesty's use and the other to the apprehender or pursuer of the same.
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Forasmuch as it is sufficiently verified and proven that John Campbell of Ardchattan was in his majesty's service in the year 1654, and that his houses of Ardchattan and Ardrey, and his whole household goods, plenishings and other furniture therein, were burnt, plundered and destroyed by a party of English soldiers the said year, and that the losses sustained by him thereby amounts to the sum of 8,000 merks; therefore, our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, appoints the said loss to be recorded in the books of parliament.
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Forasmuch as it is sufficiently proven that John Campbell of Largs, and his predecessors, is and have been in peaceable possession of the lands of Over and Nether Largs, with the mill thereof, for the space of thirty years and above, and that he and his predecessors held the same of the deceased Archibald Campbell, late marquis of Argyll, as being superior thereof, and also that before the said John Campbell of Largs's going to the king's service in the year 1654, he left his writs and evidents of his said lands with John Campbell of Ardchattan to be kept in his house of Ardchattan, as being the most secure place for keeping thereof, and that the said house and writs were burnt the time foresaid by a party of English soldiers; therefore, our sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, presently convened by his majesty's special authority, have recommended and recommends to the lord treasurer and lords of his majesty's exchequer for granting a charter in favour of the said John Campbell of Largs of the foresaid lands and mill thereof, to the effect he may be thereafter infeft therein to be held of our sovereign lord as being now superior thereof in place of the said late marquis of Argyll, also and in the same manner as the said John Campbell of Largs held the said lands of before of the said late marquis of Argyll.
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The report underwritten was produced and read in parliament, whereof the tenor follows.
We [James Graham], marquis of Montrose, [James Livingstone], earl of Callander, the lairds [John Murray, laird] of Polmaise and [Sir James Foulis of] Colinton, and [Hugh Sinclair of Ingleston and John Irvine], the commissioners for the burghs of Annan and Dumfries, commissioners appointed by his majesty's commissioner and estates of parliament for trying the debts, fines and losses sustained by James, earl of Queensberry, for his loyalty to the king's majesty during those troublous times, do humbly return to his grace and parliament our report as follows. First, we find that the said earl of Queensberry lent, according to an order directed thereupon on 25 April 1644, the sum of £10,000 Scots money according to a public bond granted thereupon, which, with the annualrent thereof to this time, extends to the sum of £20,500 Scots money. Secondly, we find that the said earl paid as a fine upon 11 March 1646 the sum of 120,000 merks in manner following: namely, to Sir Adam Hepburn of Humbie, the sum of 10,000 merks; to Archibald Sydserf, treasurer depute to the said Sir Adam, the sum of 10,000 merks, and to George Porterfield, then provost of Glasgow, the sum of 100,000 merks, which sum, with the annualrent thereof to this present time being fifteen years, extends to the sum of £144,800 money foresaid. And also, we find that in the year 1650 the said earl of Queensberry was fined by that traitor Cromwell for his loyalty to the sum of £12,000 Scots money, which sum we find the said earl was forced to pay to George Bilton, one of the commissars to the English army, conforming to two receipts thereof granted by the said George to the earl, and which sum of £12,000 money foresaid, together with the annualrent thereof to this present time, extends to the sum of £16,320. Which three articles containing real liquid sums of debts and fines which we find sufficiently instructed by writ produced and really paid by him, in manner above-written, extends in whole to the sum of £181,620, and this we find to have been really paid by the said earl in manner foresaid. Also, in addition to his great losses and grievous sufferings for his loyalty, as first by a year's imprisonment in Carlisle, Glasgow and St Andrews in the year 1646, in which time he also lost a considerable sum of money and much furnishing which was plundered by a party of Sir John Brown's regiment, extending the said loss to the sum of £30,000; secondly, by his maintaining a garrison of 100 men in the houses of Drumlanrig against those who opposed the marquis of Montrose and that for the space of three weeks, whereby the said earl was at the loss and expenses of £2,660; thirdly, that the English in November 1650, having put a garrison of dragoons in the castle of Sanquhar, the same was by them defaced, and cost the said earl in repairing thereto £4,000; fourthly, that the said English dragoons did exact off the barony of Sanquhar belonging to the earl more than their due proportion, the sum of £400 weekly, and that from November 1650 to June 1652, for which the said earl was necessitated to give down to the tenants of the said barony a whole year's rent, extending to the sum of £13,000 money foresaid, and fifthly, that in the said year 1652 there was taken out of the house of Drumlanrig by Colonel Aldridge, governor of Ayr, 200 muskets, besides pikes worth £2,000, six hundred weight of powder valued to 400 merks, three field pieces of brass and one of iron, valued to 2,000 merks, in all amounting to the sum of £3,599, and which five last articles of losses, which cannot be instructed by writ and yet are attested to be of verity by reputable persons, does amount in the whole to the sum of £53,259, and which in our opinion could extend to no less than the said sum. And which sum of £181,620 mentioned in the said three first articles, that are clearly instructed by writ, as said is, being added with the said sum of £53,259 contained in the foresaid five last articles, will amount to the sum of £234,879, and all the said losses we find to be sustained by the said earl for his loyalty, as said is. And as the earl's fines and sufferings have been exceeding extraordinary, so it is our opinion the same may be singularly represented and recommended to his majesty as the lord commissioner his grace and parliament thinks fit, which we humbly offer as deserving special consideration from his majesty and parliament, and this is the report of our procedure and opinion in the said matter subscribed with our hands at Edinburgh the [---] day of June 1661. Signed, Montrose, Callander, J. Murray of Touchadam [and Polmaise] and J. Irvine.†
Which report, being considered by his majesty's commissioner and estates of parliament, they do approve of the same and appoint it to be recorded in the books of parliament.
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The estates of parliament, having taken into their consideration a supplication presented to them in the name of the widow and children of the deceased Mr John Alexander, minister at Hoddam, showing that the said Mr John, being always faithful and loyal to the king's majesty, was thereby obnoxious to many sufferings and, having died in the year 1660, that whole year's stipend is due to his widow and children, yet the collector of the vacant stipends and his deputes have issued charges of horning against the parishioners of the said parish and the petitioners for payment of the vacant stipend, contrary to the practise of this kingdom granting to the widows and children of ministers deceasing after Whitsunday [May/June] the whole stipend of that year; humbly therefore, desiring the said charges to be suspended and to allow the stipend of this year, and until the kirk be planted [anew] to be paid to the petitioners, as the supplication bears. The king's majesty and estates of parliament do allow to the supplicants the stipend due in the foresaid parish from the time of the said Mr John Alexander's death in July 1660 to the date of this act, as also all other dues resting preceding his death due and payable by the heritors and others liable in use of payment of the said stipend, and ordains letters of horning to be directed for payment of the same upon a charge of fifteen days.
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Anent the supplication given in to the lord commissioner's grace and honourable estates of parliament by the heritors and others within the shire of Kincardine, showing that the petitioners are infested with a great number of lawless highlanders who already rob houses and oppress those lying towards the hills, and when the cattle shall be for driving, they will (if not restrained) drive them away in great numbers to the utter undoing of the petitioners and laying their lands waste; therefore, desiring that William Farquharson of Inverey, who is a person of known trust and approved ability, or any other, might be appointed to have the charge of preserving those parts this summer, and that he may have allowance of such sums of money for defraying the charge of his soldiers as he formerly had, and that all persons who were in use of payment thereof may be ordered to make payment of their respective proportions of the same, without exemption of any person, as in the said supplication and desire thereof at more length is contained. Which being at length heard, seen and considered by them and they therewith, being well and ripely advised, our said sovereign lord, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, has appointed and hereby appoints the said William Farquharson of Inverey, younger, to keep a guard this summer for the sheriffdom of Kincardine, and to have such allowance for keeping the guard of soldiers as formerly he had, and ordains all persons formerly in use of payment thereof to make payment of their respective proportions, without exemption of any person, and ordains letters of horning to be directed upon fifteen days etc.
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Our sovereign lord and estates of parliament, having considered a supplication presented to them by the widow and children of the deceased Quentin Hamilton of Barncluith and Robert Hamilton, one of the clerks of session, his brother and assignee constituted by him to the sums of money underwritten, showing that the said deceased Quentin Hamilton, being appointed captain of the castle of Avondale and in discharge of his trust, having repaired the same and furnished it with all warlike furniture and provisions, conduced soldiers and officers and maintained and defended the same (conforming to his majesty's several letters and orders) against the common enemy, for the most part upon his own charges and expenses for the space of twelve months and upwards, in regard all his majesty's orders issued out for maintenance thereof were almost rendered ineffectual by reason of the enemies constant lying in these quarters; which his majesty, taking to consideration at his passing by into England in the year 1651 and that the said Quentin had paid duly all the soldiers, his majesty and committee of estates then present at Lanark Muir did (without prejudice of his former order) ordain and appoint two months' maintenance of the shire of Lanark to be instantly paid to the said Quentin, in manner mentioned in the said act, dated 2 August 1651, conforming to the which the committee of the shire, having met and being sensible of the said Quentin's dutiful deportment in the said charge, did establish the account of the entertainment of the said garrison for twelve months time, and also having considered the said Quentin's payment thereof, and his other great charges upon the said garrison in manner foresaid, they, conforming to his majesty's said last order, did proportion the said two months' maintenance equally among the heritors of the said shire and ordained the same to be paid to the said Quentin, in manner specified in the said act made thereupon, dated 28 August, but in respect of the sudden and sad defeat at Worcester, and of the fatal overthrow of his majesty's whole forces in Scotland, a considerable part of the said maintenance was obstructed and is yet due by certain persons, notwithstanding whereof the said garrison was kept and maintained by the said Quentin a month and more thereafter, which the supplicants, having represented to his sacred majesty since his return, he was graciously pleased to recommend the same to his highness's commissioner and estates of parliament for their consideration, as the foresaid reference and former acts extant in the said matter more fully contains; and therefore, craving in consideration of the matter and of the sad condition of the supplicants, the said Quentin being now dead of a disease contracted in that service, and his estate much crazed thereby he having defended the same while there were no forces standing and no hope of succour, that such as are resting their respective proportions of the said months' maintenance might be ordained to pay the same to the supplicants, conforming to the former order, with the annualrent thereof, and also that the said Quentin might be approved for his service and actings and the said accounts authorised, and that the remaining charges, expenses and losses contained in an account therewith produced, extending to the sum of £10,534, might be recorded as a public debt and that they might be recommended to the king's most excellent majesty for payment thereof, and that all the other sums of money due by the said shire might be hypothecated and set apart for payment of the same, conforming to the former acts and ordinances. Which petition, being read and considered by the lords commissioners of parliament appointed for bills, they ordained the commissioners of parliament for the said sheriffdom of Lanark to see the same petition and instructions thereof who, having accordingly seen the same, together with an act of the committee of estates dated 24 August 1650 whereby the said deceased Quentin Hamilton is nominated and appointed governor of the said castle of Avondale, and he and the said shire of Lanark ordained to repair and furnish the same with all warlike provisions, which the said committee declared should be allowed in the first end of any money due to the public furth of the said shire in any manner of way; with the other act above-mentioned superscribed by his majesty at Lanark Muir, of the date and contents above-written; together with the other act of the shire of Lanark related above, whereby the said shire, conforming to the public orders and act above-mentioned, ordained every heritor and others liable in payment of maintenance within the said shire to pay to the said deceased Quentin Hamilton, or any others in his name having his power, the said two months' maintenance being August and September 1650 at 43s 4d Scots for each chalder of victual or £100 of valued rent for the time, and that towards and in part payment of the charges, expenses and loss which were sustained by the said deceased Quentin in and through his service above-written, extending to the said sum of £10,534 13s 4d over the said two months' maintenance, and the sum of £2,000 borrowed by certain gentlemen of the committee of the said shire and applied for the use of the said garrison in the year 1650, conforming to the established accounts thereof also then produced and now taken off his hand; and also an act of exoneration of the date 19 December 1651, whereby the said committee of the shire exonerated the said deceased Quentin Hamilton of the said garrison at Avondale, and of the said Quentin's service and charge which he had therein, recommending him to the committee of estates for payment of the said two months' maintenance and for payment of his remaining expenses, charges, loss and damage above-written, and with his majesty's recommendation, dated at Whitehall, 10 September last, whereby his majesty, upon a petition of the said supplicants, did recommend to the committee of estates and parliament that the arrears, disbursements and losses of the supplicants might be paid conforming to former acts and ordinances made thereupon; together with the said Quentin Hamilton's assignation to the said Robert Hamilton, supplicant, in and to the said two months' maintenance, and whole sums of money contained in the several acts above-mentioned, of the date 30 March 1660, all produced for the part of the supplicants for instructing their right and interest in the said matter, with several other acts and letters of his majesty's and committee of estates ordaining the said Quentin's arrears of former charges and disbursements whatsoever to be paid out of the first and readiest of any public money due or which should be due at any time thereafter by the said shire. The said commissioners for the said shire of Lanark by their report made thereupon declared that they found the supplicants to have good and undoubted right to the said two months' maintenance by the several acts, order, recommendation and assignation above-written, and diverse other acts produced for instructing thereof. But in regard the executors of the deceased James Rae, who are now also deceased, yet much represented by Robert Rae, merchant, to whose behoof, for the most part, the decreet after-specified was recovered, and who was constant agent therein upon pretence that they had furnished meal to the army at Leith, stole through a decreet for the said two months' maintenance against the said shire before the English judges in the time of usurpation, but they nor the supplicants who had a prior right from his majesty and duly intimated to and accepted by the shire, never being heard, they desired that the said Robert Rae might be warned to produce his and the said executors of the said James Rae their rights if they any had, conforming to the which the said Robert Rae, in obedience of a citation given to him to the effect above-written, having compeared with Mr George MacKenzie, as procurator for and in name and behalf of the said Robert Rae and executors foresaid of the said deceased James Rae who, after sight of the said supplication and whole acts and writs above-mentioned produced for the supplicant, as said is, and report aforesaid of the said commissioners of parliament for the said shire of Lanark, together with the declaration of the said Mr George MacKenzie, in name and behalf of the said Robert Rae and executors foresaid of the said deceased James Rae, with the report of the lords commissioners of parliament appointed for trade and bills made by them in the whole matter, the said estates of parliament, being well and ripely advised, found the desire of the said supplication just and reasonable and that the supplicant ought to be answered and obeyed of the two months' maintenance above-written, notwithstanding of any right the executors foresaid of the said deceased James Rae has or may pretend thereto, in respect the same two months' maintenance was proportioned and laid on by the said committee of the shire of Lanark at his majesty's command and that the deceased Quentin did enter in payment thereof six or seven years before any intimation of any right of the said executors; therefore, his majesty, with advice and consent of the said estates of parliament, decrees and ordains the heritors, liferenters and others liable in payment of cess within the said shire of Lanark to make good and thankful payment to the said Robert Hamilton, assignee foresaid, of the said two months' maintenance at the rate of 43s 4d for each chalder of victual or £100 of valued rent, according to the ordinary valuation in the said year 1650, each of them for their own parts, pertaining to their respective valuations, and declares the said payment of the two months' maintenance so to be made to the said Robert is and shall be a sufficient exoneration to the said shire thereupon at the hands of the said executors, and all other persons and parties pretending right thereto, and discharges them of all further troubling of the said shire thereupon for ever, and have approved and approves the said Quentin's service and whole actings as governor of the said garrison and discharges him thereof and of all sums of money or other provision received by him or other intromissions and accounts whatsoever in reference thereto, indemnifying and exonerating him thereupon for ever, and declares the remaining charges and expenses above-written, extending to the said sum of £10,534 13s 4d yet due above the said two months' maintenance, and whole former receipts with the annualrent of the said sum yet due, as said is, from and after the term of Whitsunday [18 May] 1651 during the non-payment of the same, to be a loyal advancement by the said Quentin for his majesty's service and due by his majesty and estates of this kingdom to the said Robert Hamilton, assignee foresaid, and recommends the same to be paid to him in manner contained in the said petition and acts above-written and produced, as said is, for instructing thereof, and ordains letters of horning on fifteen days to be directed for charging of each heritor, liferenter and others liable in payment of cess personally or at their dwelling houses or at their parish churches or head burgh of the said shire in general, or by their names in special, to make payment of their respective proportions in manner above-mentioned etc.
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Warrant and order to Mr John Wilkie, collector of the vacant stipends, for payment making to some suffering ministers for their loyalty, and to the wives and children of others deceased, of certain sums modified by the lord commissioner and estates of parliament.
The lord commissioner continues the parliament until Thursday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.