[A1641/7/41]¹

[Supplication of Sir Thomas Stewart, fiar of Grandtully, for licence to leave Edinburgh]

Sir Thomas Stewart, knight, his supplication passed²

To the honourable members of the high court of parliament of this kingdom now convened, humbly means and shows your lordships' servant, Sir Thomas Stewart, fiar of Grandtully, knight, that where in obedience of a missive letter directed to me by the committee of estates in June last, I did repair here to to Edinburgh where I have continually since attended the said committee the time of the sitting thereof, and have declared truly to them all that I know in that business wherefore I was called hither, as is contained in my deposition and declaration given be me therein, and since your lordships' meeting I have likewise still remained in town attending your lordships' further will and pleasure with me, and seeing I am acted in the books of the said committee not to depart from the town without licence, and that by my long tarrying here my urgent and necessary business which I have to do both at home and abroad are neglected, whereby I am heavily damnified and prejudiced. Likewise yesterday I received a letter showing me that it has pleased God to visit my spouse with sickness, who has lain these eight or ten days and as yet lies bedfast, and therefore it is most necessary and expedient that I were present with her the time of this her disease. Therefore I most humbly beseech your lordships to take the premises to your consideration and to grant me hereby licence and liberty to repair home for visiting of my said spouse and doing of certain my necessary affairs. And whenever it shall please your lordships to call me hither, I shall always be ready to appear before your lordships upon advertisement. And your lordships' answer humbly I attend.

10 August 1641

Read in audience of parliament, which continues to give answer thereto until Master Adam Hepburn [of Humbie] be acquainted and heard hereupon.

12 August 1641

The estates of parliament, after the report made by Humbie, grant liberty to the supplicant to go home until the [...] day of this instant.

[Robert Balfour, lord Balfour of] Burleigh, in presence of the lords of parliament