[A1706/10/46]¹

[Petition for the earl of Crawford]

To his grace her majesty's high commissioner and the right honourable the estates of parliament,

The petition of John [Lindsay], earl of Crawford,

Humbly shows,

That by an act of the court of directors of the African Company, the deceased Major John Lindsay was provided to a yearly salary of £250 sterling, which after his death was certainly a debt upon the company. And I having right to all the effects belonging to the said deceased Major John Lindsay by assignation contained in his letter will and testament do, with all submission, judge this my interest secured with the rest of the debts of the said company.

May it therefore please your grace and the honourable estates of parliament to consider my well founded claim of the said £250 sterling, and to order relating thereto so as I may be effectually paid of the same.

Crawford

²Edinburgh, 19 March 1707

Her majesty's high commissioner and the estates of parliament, having heard this petition, they grant to the petitioner as much of the remainder excrescence of the company's dead stock over and above the £1,577 11s sterling already disposed of and distributed by former orders of the parliament and committee as will pay the petitioner the sum of £250 sterling named within.

[James Ogilvy, earl of] Seafield, chancellor, in the presence of the lords of parliament