Act, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

Procedure: petition, 31 December 1696, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh the seventh day of Maj Jaj vjc nyntie six years

A1696/5/241

Act

Liberation Rayan and Monro

Anent the petitione given in to the Lords of his Majesties privie Councell By Hugh Rian and Mr Robert Monroe prisoners in the tolbooth of the Cannongate Sheuing That wheras the petitioners being apprehended by the officers of Collonell Hill Governor of Fortwilliam in Inverlochie were Confyned uithin that garrisone for severall weeks And by the said Collonell Hill his orders Conveyed to this prisone wher they were Committed by order of Major Generall Livingstoun And have remained here since the Eleventh day of march Last In a Condition to be Compassionat In regaird of their bad health occasioned through the want of wholsome air and other necessaries they were accustomed to in the north And Collonell Hill alleadged to the petitioners that they were Called hither by the Councell and Advocat as persons that troubled the peace of the Government yet since nothing hes or Can be made appear against the petitioners They having Lived severall years in this kingdome peacably not doing anything that had the Least tendency to the Disturbance of the Government And therfore Humbly Craving their Lordships to order the petitioners Liberatione upon their Enacting themselves to Continow still peacably But if it be their Lordships pleasure to send them off this Kingdome only the petitioners Humbly Intreat their Lordships to allow them a Competent tyme out of prisone to prepare themselves for their transportation rather then dye in prisone which will unavoydablie follow on the on if not on both if they be detained Longer in prisone As also to free them from paying the prisone Dues In regaird they are Indigent persons as the said petition Bears The Saids Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Having Considered the above petitione They heirby Give order and warrand to the Baillies of the Cannongate and Keeper of their tolbooth To sett the petitioners at Libertie furth therof In respect they have enacted themselves in the books of his Majesties privie Councell that they shall depairt furth of his Majesties Dominions and shall saile with the first shipps which shall Goe from this kingdome to Holland or to any other place belonging to his Majesties allayes And that they shall Return testificats to the Councell of their Landing and the places at which they shall be Landed att

Att Edinburgh the seventh day of Maj Jaj vjc nyntie six years

A1696/5/241

Act

Liberation Rayan and Monro

Anent the petitione given in to the Lords of his Majesties privie Councell By Hugh Rian and Mr Robert Monroe prisoners in the tolbooth of the Cannongate Sheuing That wheras the petitioners being apprehended by the officers of Collonell Hill Governor of Fortwilliam in Inverlochie were Confyned uithin that garrisone for severall weeks And by the said Collonell Hill his orders Conveyed to this prisone wher they were Committed by order of Major Generall Livingstoun And have remained here since the Eleventh day of march Last In a Condition to be Compassionat In regaird of their bad health occasioned through the want of wholsome air and other necessaries they were accustomed to in the north And Collonell Hill alleadged to the petitioners that they were Called hither by the Councell and Advocat as persons that troubled the peace of the Government yet since nothing hes or Can be made appear against the petitioners They having Lived severall years in this kingdome peacably not doing anything that had the Least tendency to the Disturbance of the Government And therfore Humbly Craving their Lordships to order the petitioners Liberatione upon their Enacting themselves to Continow still peacably But if it be their Lordships pleasure to send them off this Kingdome only the petitioners Humbly Intreat their Lordships to allow them a Competent tyme out of prisone to prepare themselves for their transportation rather then dye in prisone which will unavoydablie follow on the on if not on both if they be detained Longer in prisone As also to free them from paying the prisone Dues In regaird they are Indigent persons as the said petition Bears The Saids Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Having Considered the above petitione They heirby Give order and warrand to the Baillies of the Cannongate and Keeper of their tolbooth To sett the petitioners at Libertie furth therof In respect they have enacted themselves in the books of his Majesties privie Councell that they shall depairt furth of his Majesties Dominions and shall saile with the first shipps which shall Goe from this kingdome to Holland or to any other place belonging to his Majesties allayes And that they shall Return testificats to the Councell of their Landing and the places at which they shall be Landed att

1. NRS, PC1/50, 520-1.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 520-1.