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Whereas upon a supplication given in to our sovereign lord by Colonel Alexander Ramsay, craving that in regard of his great losses and sufferings sustained by him for his loyalty to his majesty's royal father, of ever blessed memory, especially evidenced in the matter of the Engagement in the year 1648, whereof he was not only a great furtherer but also a constant maintainer of the lawfulness thereof against all opposers of the same, even in the worst of times, that therefore it might have pleased his majesty to make him happy with his royal approbation, and reference to his estates of parliament in Scotland, that they might be authorised to consider him according to his faithfulness and sufferings, as the supplication more fully purports. And the king's majesty, being informed of the said colonel's faithfulness in his royal father's service in the year 1648, was pleased, according to a deliverance upon the said supplication dated at Whitehall, 9 April last, to recommend the petitioner to his commissioner and the estates of this present parliament. Which supplication and recommendation above-written, being heard in the presence of the lord commissioner his grace and estates of parliament they, in obedience thereto, having made trial of the said Colonel Ramsay's loyalty and sufferings during these troubles, found that he had been a great sufferer for his loyalty, especially in the year 1648, and that he had been at great expenses in equipping himself as a colonel of horse, and by his being prisoner in England for a long space of time, and after his return to Scotland (having paid a considerable sum for his release) he was by an act of the general assembly in the year 1649 debarred not only from public ordinances but also from all human society, only because he would not acknowledge the foresaid Engagement for the king's majesty's relief to have been sinful and unlawful, whereupon he was necessitated to leave the kingdom and go beyond seas, and which losses they found could extend to no less than the sum of £1,000 sterling money. And seeing the said losses and sufferings came by opposition made against the said Engagement and rigorous censure of the general assembly in the year 1649, and the troubles and inconveniences that followed thereupon, as also seeing the parliament in the year 1648 directed a letter to all the several presbyteries adjuring them not to entertain undeserved prejudices against the proceedings in the said Engagement, which letter they all despised, therefore, his majesty's commissioner and estates of parliament have recommended and hereby recommends the said Colonel Alexander Ramsay to all the presbyteries of this kingdom (who have occasioned his said losses) that they may find out some effectual course for making payment to the said colonel of the foresaid sum of £1,000 sterling money in recompense to him of his said losses and sufferings.