Procedure: committee formed, 28 December 1706, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh the Ellevinth day of July J^aj vij^c and Six yeirs

A1706/7/5

A1706/7/5¹

Act

Act In favours of Captain Thomas Gordon

Anent the memoriall given in and presented to the Lords of her Majesties privie Councell By Captain Thomas Gordon Shewing that the Royall William being so very Crank that she cannot cary saill without havier ballist than Stones, That therfor it might please the saids Lords to give him orders to take aboard those Guns, which belonged to the Bass, and are now of no maner of use to the Government, But Such as this If att any tyme the Government thinks they have use for them, they may have them ashoar upon twentie four hours advertisement; The Lords of her Majesties privie Councell haveing considered the above memoriall given in to them by Captain Thomas Gordon Comander of her Majesties Ship the Royall William, And the Samen being read in ther presence, The saids Lords doe heirby Allow the said Captain Thomas Gordon the Guns which wer formerly in the Bass, now Lying on the Shoar of Leith, upon his granting recept therfor to the Shoarmaster to make the Samen furth comeing for the use of the Government, when requyred therto.