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Legislation

Act in favour of the Irish officers

The estates of parliament, having heard and considered a report of the committee appointed for taking some course for relief of the well-affected officers and soldiers fled out of Ireland, they have remitted and remit to the committee of estates to give order for drawing together the said well-affected soldiers that are fled out of Ireland into companies of foot (not exceeding 500 in all), and to appoint officers over them out of the chief officers that have been in service there and are of known integrity and have adhered constantly to the cause, and for the soldiers that they have a testificate from the honest ministers in Ireland or the said well-affected officers that have come from there; and ordain that the said 500 with their officers be quartered for the first month (which is to begin upon 15 August instant) in the shires and burghs of Wigtown, the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Ayr, Renfrew, Lanark, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Roxburgh and Peebles; for the second month (which is to begin upon 15 September next) to be quartered in the shires and burghs of Selkirk, Berwick, Haddington, Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Stirling and Clackmannan; and for the third month in the shires and burghs of Fife, Perth, Forfar, Kincardine, Banff, Aberdeen, Elgin and Nairn (which is to begin upon 15 October); and recommend to the commissioners appointed for purging the army in the several shires and to the officers of the army to fill the places of those that shall be purged out with such of the well-affected officers and soldiers that are fled out of Ireland.