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Procedure: report of James Hamilton's accounts

James Hamilton's accounts allowed £13,932 sterling

The which day the lords and commissioners of the estates presently convened, having read and considered James Hamilton of Bogs' account, perused by order from the estates by Robert [Balfour], lord [Balfour of] Burleigh, Sir Alexander Shaw of Sauchie and William Thomson, commissary of the Scottish army in Ireland, they have allowed the said account, and ordain the same to be inserted and registered in the books of convention, of the which the tenor follows:

The account of monies indebted by the public to James Hamilton of Bogs for the provision of meal and other necessaries furnished by him to the Scottish army in Ireland

First, according to a contract in September 1642, 5,000 bolls of meal at £10 the boll, payable at Martinmas [11 November] 1642, the one half, and the other half at Candlemas [2 February] thereafter, extends to £50,000 Scots, is sterling money 4,166-13-04

Item, for the annualrent thereof to Martinmas 1643, 291-13-04

Item, by act of council in December 1642, 1,000 bolls of meal sent by land at £10 per boll, extends to English money 833-06-08

Item, allowed to him by the council for carriage and other charges, £500 sterling thereupon, 500-00-00

Item, for the annualrent of the said two sums until Martinmas 1643, 80-00-00

Item, by contract in April 1643, 4,000 bolls of meal at 17 merks per boll, whereof the one half being paid in ready money, there rests for the other half payable at Whitsunday [21 May] 1643, 1,888-17-09

Item, for the annualrent thereof to Martinmas 1643, 75-11-02

Item, furnished by [Margaret Hamilton], lady Lindsay's order in July 1642, 4,373 bolls of meal, together with sacks, at £11 per boll in English money, 400-09-02

Item, for annualrent thereof from Lammas [1 August] 1642 to Martinmas 1643, the sum of 40-00-00

Item, for 4,500 bolls of meal, being my part of 6,000 bolls appointed to be sent overland in July last, is now ready shipped and to be shipped for Ireland at 20 merks per boll, 5,000-00-00

Item, for 500 bolls more agreed for by Captain Moncrieff at the same price, extending to 555-11-02

Item, agreed with the Lord Burleigh for 2,000 hooks and 100 scythes for shearing and mowing, 100-00-00

The total sum of the articles above-written, thirteen thousand, nine hundred and thirty two pounds, two shillings, seven pennies sterling, payable at Martinmas 1643, 13,932-02-07

At Edinburgh, 11 August 1643, we under-subscribing, by virtue of a warrant from the commissioners of the convention of estates of the date 10 August, have perused the account of James Hamilton of Bogs written on the other side, and have found the same justly calculated and the particular articles thereof justly instructed by receipts of Alexander Muir and warrants from the lords of council, the said James Hamilton being always obliged to subtract thereof such sums as William Thomson or any other commissaries of the army have paid for transporting of the said victuals to Ireland, and being liable to report sufficient receipts from the said Alexander Muir or other receivers of the army's victuals for the number of bolls of meal further bargained for, being 5,000 bolls of meal contained in the two last articles of the account, which are presently to be sent upon the public hazard according to the tenor of the former contracts made with him. Signed thus, J. Burleigh; Alexander Shaw; William Thomson