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To the lord commissioner, his grace, and honourable estates of parliament, the humble petition of Mr David Foulis, sometime minister at Oxnam, and John Foulis, his son, in his name.
Shows,
That the petitioner being deposed from his ministry in 1639 and forced to abandon Scotland merely for his affection to royal authority and not taking the covenant, leaving behind him seven children to the charity of their friends, he was thereafter necessitated to depart the three kingdoms. And because of some expressions in a sermon at Hamburg in 1654 against the usurper, Oliver Cromwell, he was forced to retire himself from there to a private corner in England, where he has lived in a most miserable condition all this time, being incapacitated to do any thing either for his own or his children's livelihood, whereby they are reduced to a very great strait. May it therefore please your honours to order Mr John Wilkie, collector of the vacant stipends, to pay him such a considerable sum as your honours shall think just in recompense for some part of the great losses sustained by the petitioner. And your petitioner as bound shall pray etc.
Edinburgh, 4 July 1662
The lord commissioner and lords of the articles find it just that the petitioner have £100 sterling allowed him out of the readiest of the vacant stipends, to be paid by Mr John Wilkie, collector thereof, or his deputes.
[William Cunningham, earl of] Glencairn, chancellor, in the presence of the lords
8 July 1662
This report approved by the parliament and £100 sterling modified accordingly.
Glencairn, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament
The estates of parliament taking into consideration the great sufferings of Mr David Foulis, sometime minister at Oxnam, for his loyalty and affection to the king's majesty, and that for the same he was deposed from his ministry in the year 1639 and forced to desert the kingdom, therefore the king's majesty and estates of parliament do modify and ordain the sum of £100 sterling to be paid to the said Mr David Foulis out of the first and readiest of the vacant stipends, and ordain Mr John Wilkie, collector of the vacant stipends, to make payment to him of the same accordingly. Extracted.