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Robert Stewart

The estates of parliament presently convened by his majesty's special warrant and authority, having at length heard, seen and considered a supplication presented to them by Robert Stewart, burgess of Linlithgow, showing that the supplicant being duly and lawfully infeft and seised in an annualrent of 370 merks Scots yearly, to be uplifted and taken at two terms in the year Whitsunday [May/June] and Martinmas [11 November] furth of all and whole the lands of Magdalens lying beside the said burgh of Linlithgow, whereupon the said supplicant obtained a decreet before the lords of council and session against George Dundas, son and apparent heir to the deceased Mr Walter Dundas, heritor of the said lands, and Jean Bruce, life-rentrix of the same, for payment of the foresaid annualrent, and for poinding of the ground of the said lands of Magdalens for the said annualrent, and that for the years 1647, 1648 and 1649 and in all time coming, as the said decreet of the date 1 January 1650 at more length bears, by virtue whereof the supplicant had been in constant possession of the same until of late it pleased the right honourable the committee of estates to give warrant to Andrew Crawford in Linlithgow to collect the mails, ferms and duties of the said lands of Magdalens as pertaining to William Dundas for his majesty's use or any having right thereto from the king's majesty, therefore, desiring it might please the said honourable court of parliament to give order and warrant to the said Andrew Crawford to make payment to the supplicant, furth of the first and readiest of the ferms and duties of the said lands already uplifted or to be uplifted by him, of the said annualrent resting to him of the terms of Whitsunday [10 June] and Martinmas last past in the year of God 1660, conforming to his said right and decreet above-written in all points. This together with a report made and given in by the commissioners for trade and bills, to whom the said estates of parliament referred the consideration of the foresaid supplication and instructions thereof, bearing that the said commissioners, having heard a bill presented to them by the supplicant, and having likewise considered the said supplicant's infeftment and remaining writs and evidences produced by him for instructing of his right to the said yearly annualrent, together with the foresaid decreet for poinding of the ground for the foresaid annualrent long anterior to the said William Dundas's right, they did humbly conceive the petitioner's desire to be most reasonable, and that the said Andrew Crawford should make payment accordingly, as the said report in itself more fully contains. The estates of parliament aforesaid have approved and do hereby approve the same report made to them by the said commissioners for trade and bills in the matter above-specified and, therefore, ordains the above-named Andrew Crawford to make payment and deliverance to the said Robert Stewart, supplicant, of the foresaid annualrent of 370 merks money above-specified resting to him of the terms of Whitsunday and Martinmas last past, the year of God 1660 furth of the first and readiest of the mails and duties of the said lands of Magdalens already uplifted or to be uplifted by him, conforming to the said supplicant's rights and decreet above-written in all point, and ordains letters etc.