Att Edinburgh the Twenty day of September Jaj vijc and thrie years
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Act
Act In Favors of Major Generall Thomas Buchan
Anent the Petition given in to his Grace her Majesties high Commissioner and Lords of her Majesties privy Councill by Major Generall Thomas Buchan Shewing That wher his Grace and the saids Lords were pleased most favorably by their Last delyverance to allow the petitioner the benefitt of the toune of Edinburgh and of a myle ther abouts for which the petitioner cannot bot give his humble thanks, But Seing that the petitioners affairs and any thing he has Lyes in the North in Aberdeen Shyre wher he could not be since his comeing to this nation So that he hade gott nothing done therin By which he sustained great prejudice and for want therof cannot Subsist himself any Longer, And Likewayes Seing the petitioner was formerly resolved to Live peaceably under her Sacred Majesties auspicious Government And to have no Converse or Corrospondance with any person whatsoever ill affected therto And Therefore humbly Craveing his Grace and the saids Lords to Consider the present Circumstances and to allow the petitioner the benefite of ane opportunity to order the petitioners bussines and affairs untill the first of March nixt upon the petitioners finding sufficient Caution to present his person before his Grace and the saids Lords when called for and in the mean time that he should Live and behave himself peaceably under her Majestie and have converse with no rebells or any ill affected to her Majestie and Government as the petition bears. His Grace his Majesties high Commissioner and the Lords of her Majesties privy Councill haveing Considered the above petition given in to them by Major Generall Thomas Buchan and the samen being Read in their presence His Grace and the saids Lords Doe hereby prorogate the time formerly appointed for the petitioner to depart furth of her Majesties dominions untill the first day of January nixt to come And appoints and Ordaines the petitioner to give bond and find Sufficient Caution acted in the books of privy Councill That he shall depart furth of her Majesties dominions betwixt the date hereof and the said first day of January nixt to come and shall not returne therto without Libertie granted by her Majestie or the privy Councill to him for that effect. And in the mean time that he shall Live peaceably under and with all Submission to her Majesties Government, And that he shall not Consult nor Contrive any thing in prejudice therof nor Converse or Correspond with any rebells and that under the penalty of two Hundred pounds Sterling in caice he transgress any pairt of the premisses.
1. NRS, PC1/53, 30-1.
1. NRS, PC1/53, 30-1.