The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 3 October 2024

[C1639/8/51]1

[Supplication remitted to the commissioner for Dumfries; supplication recommended to the king]

Supplication by James Newall against the provost of Dumfries, craving restitution of his house and goods, read in articles, who commanded the supplication to be delivered to [John Irvine], commissioner of Dumfries, who was also appointed to attend [John Stewart, earl of Traquair], the commissioner's grace, at 12 o'clock.

Supplication by Alexander Cunningham, prisoner in the fleet, recommended to the commissioner's grace to be remonstrated and represented to his majesty.

[Supplication to be taken into further consideration; subcommittee for the act of pacification ordered to attend the lord commissioner]

Supplication by [William Graham], earl of Airth and others craving to be heard regarding the act of salmon fishing, appoints the same to be shown to [Thomas Bruce of Weltoun], provost of Stirling, and the supplicants to be heard. And accordingly the supplication was delivered to the provost of Stirling.

Regarding the act of pacification, appoints [John Campbell], lord Loudoun, with such others as are sitting, to attend [John Stewart, earl of Traquair], the commissioner's grace, at Holyroodhouse this afternoon.

[Supplication refused; commission of justiciary approved]

Supplication by Mistress [Isobel] Geichan, craving the process between her husband and her to be revised and the sentences following thereupon to be reduced, being read in articles, is refused.

Commission of justiciary for the fishing upon the River Ythan to [Thomas Forbes], laird of Waterton.

  1. NAS, PA6/3, 'August 31-October 22 1639', f.15(a) v.