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The which day the report underwritten was presented and read in parliament and appointed to be recorded, whereof the tenor follows.
The report of the lords and other commissioners appointed by my lord commissioner's grace and parliament for auditing and examining the account of the losses sustained by John Maxwell, sometime tutor of Carnsalloch, in his majesty's service during these late troubles, we having taken an exact trial and cognition thereupon do find it to be as follows. Firstly, we find that the said John Maxwell was forced to flee out of the kingdom in the year 1639 with the earls [Robert Maxwell, earl] of Nithsdale and [William Crichton, earl of] Dumfries and [John Maxwell], lord Herries, and to remain twenty-two weeks in Carlisle for not subscribing the covenant, and his household plenishings, sheep and nolt and most part of that year's crop were therefore destroyed, plundered and taken away. We find it proven by witnesses that his sheep and nolt were then taken away and quantity thereof proven by his own oath, estimated the said sheep at £50 the score and nolt at £20 the head, in total extending the said nolt and sheep to £1,700 and his household plenishings, conforming to his own oath, does extend to 400 merks, and that his crop, eaten and destroyed that year, conforming to his own oath, was worth and estimated to 500 merks, and that his charges, during his necessary retirement in Carlisle for his safety, for the space above-specified, did amount to £600, extending in the whole to the sum of £2,900. Item, the annualrent of the said sum at six per cent from Martinmas [11 November] 1639 to Whitsunday [2 June] 1661, being twenty-one years and a half, extends in the whole to £3,731. Item, as to the payment of 100 merks imposed upon the said John Maxwell in the year 1648† by the committee of the shire for not subscribing some bonds for advancing money, we find it proven by a discharge produced then £66 13s 4d. Item, the annualrent of the said sum at six per cent from Whitsunday [13 June] 1641 to Whitsunday 1661, being twenty years, in total £80. Item, as to the sum of 4,000 merks imposed upon the said John Maxwell in the year 1644 for joining with my lord marquis of Montrose's forces at Dumfries, we find the payment thereof instructed by commissary William Livingstone's discharge and act of parliament, both produced, coming to £2,666 13s 4d. Item, the annualrent of the said sum at six per cent from Whitsunday [9 June] 1644 to Whitsunday 1661, being seventeen years, totalling £2,720. Item, as to his imprisonment at that time within the tolbooth of Dumfries for the space of six months,† and the loss of his horse and arms and his confinement in Edinburgh for nine months thereafter, we find his losses by his said imprisonment and confinement during the respective spaces aforesaid, according to his own declaration upon oath, to extend to £600, and the loss of his horse and arms to be estimated to £100, according to his declaration upon oath, then in all £700. Item, the annualrent of the said sum at six per cent from Whitsunday [25 May] 1645 to Whitsunday 1661, being sixteen years, in total £672. Item, as to the said John Maxwell's losses sustained in the year 1645 for his being with the marquis of Montrose and my Lord Ogilvy at Philiphaugh, we find proven by witnesses that there were four horses taken from him by Cornet Brown of Pitreuchie and his associates, estimated to 500 merks, according to his declaration upon oath, a fowling-piece and his arms, estimated to £36, and twenty cross dollars, extending to £55, and that he suffered by quartering for his being with Montrose at that time, according to his oath, £300 and that he paid 600 merks to [Douglas, laird of] Tilwhilly, the one half thereof proven by discharge produced and the other half by his oath, extending the said losses contained in the said articles in the whole to £1,124 6s 8d. Item, the annualrent of the said sum at six per cent from Whitsunday 1648† until Whitsunday 1661, being sixteen years, then £1,066 13s 4d. Item, concerning the said John Maxwell's confinement in Edinburgh and that for the space of eleven months until he was liberated by the pacification and order under General Major Middleton's hand, now lord commissioner, and approved by my lord treasurer, we find proven by his oath to the value of £500. Item, the annualrent of the said sum at six per cent from Whitsunday [17 May] 1646 until Whitsunday 1661, being fifteen years, then £450. We undersubscribers do find, after exact trial taken by us anent the losses sustained by the said John Maxwell, at the respective times above-specified, that the same does extend to £16,677 6s 8d Scots money, and it is our opinion the same be recorded. Signed thus, W[illiam Crichton, earl of] Dumfries, [James Livingstone, earl of] Callander, Sir Archibald Stirling [of Garden], Sir James Foulis [of Colinton] and William Cunningham [of Brownhill].