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To his grace his majesty's commissioner and the right honourable estates of parliament, the petition of Mr Hugh Ramsay, minister at Caputh.
Humbly shows,
That where the petitioner is informed there is an act lately passed ordaining all the vacant stipends in this kingdom to be bestowed and settled upon loyal and faithful ministers who have carried themselves as become Christians and good and dutiful subjects, true it is that the petitioner was taken prisoner at Alyth, carried to the town of London, and detained for the space of 12 months or thereabouts. And after his homecoming, the malice and hatred of the English continuing fresh against him, of whose loyalty they had full information, his stipend was sequestrated and collected by an English collector for the space of one or two years; whereby his sufferings have been very great, and he humbly conceives your grace and the honourable court of parliament will look upon him as a loyal subject and sufferer. There is in the presbytery of Dunkeld, within which the petitioner lives, a vacant stipend of the kirk of Kenmore, by the space of two years, which the petitioner humbly presumes should at least be settled upon him until more be found out for him, there being none in that presbytery, indeed, not in the shire, who can have the least ground of seeking after it.
May it therefore please your grace and the honourable estates of parliament to grant warrant and order to the parishioners of the said parish of Kenmore, ordaining them to make payment of the said stipend thereof for the years 1658 and 1659 to the petitioner, in satisfaction in a part of his large and great sufferings; and withal that you would be favourably pleased to find out some such way as you shall think fit for reparation of his great loss and sufferings. And your favourable answer the petitioner humbly does attend.
Mr Hugh Ramsay
Edinburgh, 15 March 1661
The lord commissioner and estates of parliament grant the desire of the petition for the stipend for the years 1658 and 1659, and for the second part recommend the petitioner to the secret council.
[William Cunningham, earl of] Glencairn, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament