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The estates of parliament, having heard a supplication presented to them in name of the widow and bairns of the deceased George Campbell, merchant in Edinburgh, mentioning that the said deceased George Campbell as having right to Mr Thomas Lumsden, one of the factors of Campvere, his proportion of the 50,000 guilders contracted and borrowed in Holland for his majesty's use and homebringing in the year 1650, is ordained, by a decreet of multiple poinding, to be answered, obeyed and paid of the sum of £5,813 1s 4d Scots by the commissioners who went to Holland for his majesty the said year, out of the monthly maintenance imposed upon the shires and burghs, of which sum the said deceased George did only receive £3,600, so that there remains yet due, to complete the sum decreed to be paid to him, £2,213 1s 4d, with annualrent since February 1658; humbly therefore, desiring that the foresaid sum with its annualrent may be appointed to be paid out of the remainder of the said months' maintenance, as the supplication bears. Which being taken into consideration by the said estates of parliament, the king's majesty, with advice and consent of his said estates, appoints and ordains the foresaid sum of £2,213 1s 4d to be paid to the petitioners out of the first and readiest of the months' maintenance of the shire of Fife and Kinross granted for defraying the charges of the homebringing of the king's majesty in the year 1650, and ordains letters of horning on 15 days and others to be directed against the then collectors of the said shire and others liable in payment thereof for making payment of the same accordingly.