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James Boswald

Forasmuch as James Boswald, merchant in Edinburgh, having in the month of August last sold and delivered to General Major Munro for the use of the Scottish army in Ireland 556 bolls of meal at 19s 6d sterling the boll, amounting to the sum of £532 16s 8d sterling, as by a certificate under the hand of the said General Major Munro and ticket of receipt of the hand of Alexander Muir, receiver of the victual of that army, does fully appear. And the estates of this kingdom, finding it most reasonable that all who have sold any victual to that army be thankfully paid of the price of the same, with the annualrent of the same, out of the arrears due to the said army by the parliament of England, do therefore declare that the said sum of £532 16s 8d sterling, with the annualrent thereof from Martinmas [11 November] last and during the non-payment thereof, is a just debt and burden upon the arrears of the said army, and that the said James Boswald, his heirs, executors and assignees ought and should be paid of the same out of the first and readiest of any monies that shall come from England for the use of that army, and hereby give warrant to their committees to see him paid accordingly. But if it shall happen that the said James and his aforesaids shall not receive payment this way, then and in that case it is declared that the said sum and arrears due thereof being assigned to the public, that the same, with the annualrent thereof, shall remain as a public debt due to him by this kingdom, which they will have a care to see duly paid.