[A1641/8/105]¹

[Supplication of the Earl of Crawford for release from his imprisonment]

Supplication by [Ludovic Lindsay], earl of Crawford, remitted to the committee for the accommodation²

To the king's majesty and honourable estates of parliament, the humble petition of Ludovic, earl of Crawford, is showing that I have been in prison now these 20 days bygone and more and since I was examined these 10 days, and seeing that I have declared the verity according to my knowledge in that matter which I conceive to be the occasion of my imprisonment, my humble petition is that I may be put to liberty upon caution to appear before the king's majesty and parliament when I shall be commanded, or that some further legal course may be taken for my trial and for the clearing of my innocency or for my punishment in case I be found guilty. And your majesty's and parliament's answer I humbly entreat and shall still pray for your majesty's happy and long reign and for the prosperous flourishing of the honourable house of parliament.

Your majesty's humble petitioner, Crawford

5 November 1641

Read in audience of his majesty and estates of parliament, who remit the supplication and desire thereof to the consideration of the committee appointed for accommodation.