[A1650/11/9]¹

[Petition of the Lord Mauchline and Colonel Robert Montgomery]

Petition [James Campbell], lord Mauchline etc.

To the king's most excellent majesty and the high court of parliament, the petition of the Lord Mauchline and Colonel Robert Montgomery

Humbly shows,

That by act of the committee of estates of 5 September last, the shires of Ayr and Renfrew were appointed to put out the number of 500 horses for recruiting our regiments and Colonel Kennedy of Kirkhill's equally and proportionally, of the which recruits your petitioners have as yet been disappointed, in regard these recruits were suspended from us and applied to those of the Western Association, we having received no recruits at all except 146 horse or thereby which were given by [Alexander Montgomery], earl of Eglinton to me, the said Colonel Montgomery, and 39 horse which I, the said Lord Mauchline, have received out of Colonel Robert Halkett's locality out of Fife assigned to me in place of the recruits which I should have had out of the aforesaid shires. And seeing by act of the committee of estates of 14 September last it was ordained, and by a letter to the gentlemen and commanders of the said forces it was intimated, that in making up the regiments of that association, nothing should be done to the prejudice of the former levies appointed to be put out by the said shires longer than their stay together in the public service, so that after that time, our said regiments were to have their several proportions allotted for their recruits, as the extract of the said act and letter herewith ready to be produced will show. And now seeing the forces of that association are scattered and no more in a body whereby they may either vanish or take on with other regiments, and your petitioners, contrary to the said act and letters will be frustrated of their recruits and their regiments made unserviceable, our humble desire is that your majesty and the estates of parliament, in pursuance of the said act and letter, would ordain us to have our recruits out of the readiest of these broken regiments, or to take them up where they are scattered in the country or amongst the regiments of the army where they can best be found, and to appoint them quarters with the rest of our regiments.

Perth, 14 December 1650

The king's majesty and estates of parliament remit to the committee of military affairs to make the recruits of the aforesaid regiments effectual.

[John Campbell, earl of] Loudoun, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament

Perth, 14 December 1650

The committee for military affairs declare they will take the desires of the petition into their consideration for making the recruits effectual when the regiments shall be modelled.