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To the lord commissioner, his grace, and estates of this present parliament, the humble petition of Elizabeth Wood, widow of the deceased Master John Ross, parson of Brass.
Shows,
That where your petitioner's said deceased husband, having during these late troubles sustained great and insufferable prejudice by quartering, fining, lending of money and imprisonment; as also having been thrust from his charge to his utter ruin in fortune as is well-known to several members of this honourable parliament; and albeit he was by the goodness and recommendation of the commissioner, his grace, restored to his function of the ministry again from which he had been most unjustly thrust for his loyalty and fidelity to his majesty's interest, yet the same reposition has very little profited your petitioner and her poor children, as having not enjoyed his place after his reinstatement thereto above six months, being prevented by death, so that your petitioner and her said children are in a most poor condition, the creditors having seized upon all that he had and confirmed themselves executers and creditors thereto, indeed to the stipend which was due to him since his said reposition. May it therefore please your grace and lords, in consideration of your said petitioner's deceased husband's great sufferings for his majesty's interest and for your petitioner's and her children's present maintenance, to grant power to her to intromit with this year's annuity of the crop of 1662, since she is not in a capacity to pursue it before the lords of session. And your grace's and lords' answer.
Edinburgh, 30 June 1662
The lord commissioner and lords of the articles appoints the annuity of the stipend and benefice of Brass for the crop of 1662 to be paid to the supplicant, and discharges Mr John Wilkie, collector of the vacant stipends, or his sub-collectors to meddle therewith.
[William Cunningham, earl of] Glencairn, chancellor, in the presence of the lords
Edinburgh, 15 August 1662
The parliament approves this report and decrees accordingly.
Glencairn, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament