The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 28 March 2024
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Petition: recommendation
Petition for Colonel James Campbell, read craving payment of the arrears due to him mentioned in his petition and the petitioner recommended to the lords of treasury, conforming to the deliverance upon his petition, which is as follows.
Recommendation to the treasury in favour of Colonel James Campbell
Her majesty's high commissioner and the estates of parliament, having heard the petition of Colonel James Campbell humbly showing to them that the petitioner, having been one of the captains of [William Forbes], lord Forbes's regiment of dragoons, and there being considerable sums due to him as such, and several officers of the regiment having got their arrears, the petitioner did likewise get a precept from the lords of her majesty's treasury upon Sir Thomas Kennedy of Kirkhill for payment of £104 1s 7d sterling of the sums due to him out of the remains of the excise duty, which Sir Thomas refusing to pay and, suffering to be protested, the petitioner did apply to the high and honourable the estates of parliament the last session for his payment, which the parliament were graciously pleased to remit to the commission upon 23 August 1704, and now, after trial taken by the commission into the payments of Sir Thomas Kennedy's excise duty, they find the same exhausted so that the petitioner can expect nothing from that fund. Craving, therefore, his grace and their lordships to recommend the petitioner to the lords of her majesty's treasury to grant him precept for the above sum of £104 1s 7d sterling out of the excrescence or balance of any fund their lordships think fit, as the said petition bears. And her majesty's said commissioner and estates of parliament, having this day fully considered the said petition and being therewith well and ripely advised, they recommended and hereby recommend to the lords of treasury to grant precepts to the petitioner out of some effectual fund for payment of £104 1s 7d sterling due to him.
- NAS. PA2/39, f.45v.