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[Answers for Sir William Baillie of Lamington against the supplication of General Major Baillie]

Answers for the Laird of Lamington²

It is humbly represented to the king's majesty and honourable estates of parliament by Sir William Baillie of Lamington, knight, that he cannot be urged to answer to the supplication given in by General Major [William] Baillie against him because the desire of that supplication is in effect to take from him the whole estate and living of Lamington, whereof he and his predecessors of past memory of man have right and have been and is in possession, which cannot be drawn in question at the instance of the supplicant upon his supplication and bare pretended assertions therein alleged. But if any interest or claim the supplicant can pretend (as he has none), the same is not competent to be taken to consideration by the parliament, seeing there is an ordinary judge and ordinary way for this and the like cases and so should not be heard before the parliament.

9 November 1641

Read in presence of the nobility.