The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 14 December 2024

[A1641/8/137]1

[Supplication by the officers imprisoned at Newcastle for reparation of their losses]

Supplication by those officers who were imprisoned at Newcastle

7 October 1641, recommended to the parliament2

My lords and others of the committee of the estates of parliament, to your lordships humbly means and shows we, your servants under-subscribing, that whereas after long and great expenses in coming from Germany to our native kingdom in May 1639, we were taken prisoners upon the coast of England near to Flamborough Head, where we lost the most part of our goods, saddles, pistols and other arms, and thereafter to Newcastle, where we remained 20 days upon our own charges, and from thence carried close prisoners to London. And there were detained near for the space of three months upon our own charges, paying the fees of the several prisons and all other expenses to our utter loss. We humbly therefore beseech your lordships to take our foresaid losses to your consideration, that we may be repaid. And your lordships' answer most humbly we attend.

  • A. Rowatt, ancient
  • John Kinninmonth, lieutenant colonel
  • David Barclay, lieutenant colonel
  • Alexander Barclay, lieutenant colonel
  • P. Trail, major
  • David Hunter, captain
  • J. Cunningham, captain
  • Patrick Kirkcaldy, captain lieutenant
  • Alexander Dunn, corporal of horse
  • John Brown, sergeant
  • George Hunter, soldier
  • Gilbert Blair, major
  • Arthur Forbes, rutmaster
  • Fraser Forbes, lieutenant
  • Daniel Kennedy, lieutenant
  • J. Lumsden, lieutenant
  • James Cruickshank, lieutenant
  • Robert Harvie, lieutenant

At Edinburgh, 7 October 1641

The committee for the army thinks it fit to represent this supplication to the king's majesty and estates of parliament and does earnestly recommend the same as a matter deserving consideration.

[James Livingstone, lord] Almond, in presence of the lords.3

Supplication by officers that were imprisoned at Newcastle. Remitted to the committee for the common burdens, 15 November 1641.4

  1. NAS, PA6/5, 'November 15 1641'.
  2. These first two clauses are written on the rear of the document.
  3. At PA6/5, 'November 15 1641' there is another similar document. On the reverse it is titled 'Supplication of the officers of fortune imprisoned at Newcastle'. However, it seems likely that it applies to this supplication. The most substantial difference appears at the foot of the document, where it records '12 November 1641, Read in audience of the nobility', as opposed to the king and three estates.
  4. This clause is written on the rear of the document.