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To the right honourable his majesty's commissioner and the high court of parliament, humbly means and shows Lady Grissel Hay, lawful daughter to the deceased [John Hay], earl of Tweeddale, that where I being now past the age of 12 years I to choose curators both for litigations and for business transactions before the bailies of the Canongate; and because the said bailies of the Canongate, in respect of the present sitting of the parliament, may not proceed and sit in authorising curators to me without dispensation from your grace and lords for that effect; neither yet can they by virtue of their precept summon the nearest of my kin to compear before them, to hear and see curators given to me, in respect they have not their residence within their jurisdiction, nor are liable and subject to answer to their courts, unless your grace and lords grant letters for summoning of them for that effect. Therefore I beseech your grace and lords to grant letters to me for summoning, warning and charging [...], nearest of kin to me upon my father's side, and [...], nearest of kin to me upon my mother's side, personally or at their dwelling places, to compear before the said bailies of the Canongate in the ordinary place of their meeting the [...] day of [...], to hear and see curators chosen by me and given to me by the said bailies of the Canongate both for litigations and for business transactions, by whose advice I may do and perform my affairs and business until my lawful and perfect age, or else to allege a reasonable cause why the same should not be done, with certification to them as appropriate. And also that your grace and lords will dispense with the said bailies' sitting in time of parliament and grant warrant to them for that effect, notwithstanding the said parliament shall happen to be sitting for the time and likewise with the time of adjournment, if therein it shall happen the said bailies to sit for giving my said curators to me according to justice. And your lords' answer.
11 April 1661
The lord commissioner and estates of parliament do grant this desire for the choosing of curators.
[William Cunningham, earl of] Glencairn, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament