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Act, 3 December 1702, Edinburgh

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Act

Act Infavours of Mr George Erskine Baillie of Alloa

Annent The petition given in and presented to the Lords of her Majesties privie Councill By Mr George Erskine Baillie of Alloa Shewing That wher Robert Allan late Chamberlain to the Earle of Marr Did upon the Sixth day of February 1701 years preferr a petition to ther Lordship’s Creaving a Gift of the Superplus of the vaccant stipends off Alloa (if any bee) over and above the payment of those appointed by the presbitry to preach at the Church off Alloa As the act Followeing upon the said petition herewith produced bears And seeing these appointed to preach in the said Church have Exhausted the most pairt off the said stipend by payment to them respective Conforme to the Act of Parliament And also that dureing the vaccancy the manse is much Deterioriat And that there wants a barn and seaverall other things in order (at the nixt Ministers Entry) to git ane act of visitation Declairing the manse Free Therfore It is humbly Craved by the Petitioner that after payment off those appointed to preach as said is Their Lordships would grant a gift of the supperplus to the petitioner for his finishing and perfyting those things Contained in the said former Act and for the uses above represented upon the petitioners finding sufficient Caution to bestow the same for the ends above at the sight of the said Earle of Marr And Therfor Creaving to the effect aftermentioned as the said petition bears The Lords of Her Majesties Privie Councill Haveing Considered the Petition into them by Mr George Erskine Baillie of Alloa And the samen Being read in there presence They Doe heirby Grant to the petitioner a Gift of the Superplus of the vacant steipends of Aloa iff any be over and above the payment off those appointed by the presbitry To preach at the Church of Alloa to be applied for building the Dykes of the Ministers manse at Alloa and Toun Bridge and For altering and makeing some of the Streets Which are narrow and Crooked passable And for repairing the manse and building a barn and seaverall other things And Decernes and Ordains The said petition To be readily answered obeyed and payed off the said vaccant stipend By the Heritors, fewers, Woodsetters, Lyferenters, fermers, Titulers, Taxmen of Teinds, Tennents and possessors, and others Lyable in payment off the said stipend And ordaines Letters of Horning under the signet of Councill upon Fyfteen dayes and others needfull To be direct at the said petitioners Instance Against the saids heretors and others forsaids lyble in payment of the saids vaccant steipands upon production of a Decreit of Locality and in caice ther be non Ordaines the saids Heritors and others lyable in payment off the samen To make payment off their respective proportiones therof According as they shall be Decerned by the Judge ordinary To be applyed By the said Petition For the uses mentioned in the petition He allwayes first befoir extracting heirof Giveing Bond and finding sufficient Caution acted in the Books of Privie Councill That he shall uplift and apply the forsaid vaccant steipend for the ends and uses above mentioned and that at the sight of the Earle of Marr.

Edinburgh the 3d December 1702

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Act

Act Infavours of Mr George Erskine Baillie of Alloa

Annent The petition given in and presented to the Lords of her Majesties privie Councill By Mr George Erskine Baillie of Alloa Shewing That wher Robert Allan late Chamberlain to the Earle of Marr Did upon the Sixth day of February 1701 years preferr a petition to ther Lordship’s Creaving a Gift of the Superplus of the vaccant stipends off Alloa (if any bee) over and above the payment of those appointed by the presbitry to preach at the Church off Alloa As the act Followeing upon the said petition herewith produced bears And seeing these appointed to preach in the said Church have Exhausted the most pairt off the said stipend by payment to them respective Conforme to the Act of Parliament And also that dureing the vaccancy the manse is much Deterioriat And that there wants a barn and seaverall other things in order (at the nixt Ministers Entry) to git ane act of visitation Declairing the manse Free Therfore It is humbly Craved by the Petitioner that after payment off those appointed to preach as said is Their Lordships would grant a gift of the supperplus to the petitioner for his finishing and perfyting those things Contained in the said former Act and for the uses above represented upon the petitioners finding sufficient Caution to bestow the same for the ends above at the sight of the said Earle of Marr And Therfor Creaving to the effect aftermentioned as the said petition bears The Lords of Her Majesties Privie Councill Haveing Considered the Petition into them by Mr George Erskine Baillie of Alloa And the samen Being read in there presence They Doe heirby Grant to the petitioner a Gift of the Superplus of the vacant steipends of Aloa iff any be over and above the payment off those appointed by the presbitry To preach at the Church of Alloa to be applied for building the Dykes of the Ministers manse at Alloa and Toun Bridge and For altering and makeing some of the Streets Which are narrow and Crooked passable And for repairing the manse and building a barn and seaverall other things And Decernes and Ordains The said petition To be readily answered obeyed and payed off the said vaccant stipend By the Heritors, fewers, Woodsetters, Lyferenters, fermers, Titulers, Taxmen of Teinds, Tennents and possessors, and others Lyable in payment off the said stipend And ordaines Letters of Horning under the signet of Councill upon Fyfteen dayes and others needfull To be direct at the said petitioners Instance Against the saids heretors and others forsaids lyble in payment of the saids vaccant steipands upon production of a Decreit of Locality and in caice ther be non Ordaines the saids Heritors and others lyable in payment off the samen To make payment off their respective proportiones therof According as they shall be Decerned by the Judge ordinary To be applyed By the said Petition For the uses mentioned in the petition He allwayes first befoir extracting heirof Giveing Bond and finding sufficient Caution acted in the Books of Privie Councill That he shall uplift and apply the forsaid vaccant steipend for the ends and uses above mentioned and that at the sight of the Earle of Marr.

1. NRS, PC2/28, 230v-231r.

1. NRS, PC2/28, 230v-231r.

Sederunt, 3 December 1702, Edinburgh

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Edinburgh the 3d December 17021

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Sederunt

Earl of Melvill P:C:; Earl of Buchan; Earl of Loudoun; Earl of Leven; Earl of Northesk; Lord Aberuchill; Lord Halcraige; Mr Fra: Montgomry; Laird of Meggins

Edinburgh the 3d December 17021

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Sederunt

Earl of Melvill P:C:; Earl of Buchan; Earl of Loudoun; Earl of Leven; Earl of Northesk; Lord Aberuchill; Lord Halcraige; Mr Fra: Montgomry; Laird of Meggins

1. NRS, PC2/28, 230v.

2. NRS, PC2/28, 230v.

1. NRS, PC2/28, 230v.

2. NRS, PC2/28, 230v.

Order, 3 December 1702, Edinburgh

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Order

Recommendation to Arburghill and Meggins to take Mr Moncreif late2 Clerk and his Servant their oathes

The Lords of her Majesties privy Councill Recommends to my Lord Aberurchill; Laird of Meggins; or any one of them to Call for Mr David Moncreif late Clerk of privy Councill and James Dalgleish his servant And take their oathes that they have non of the bonds; warrands processer depositiones taken theron or grounds therof Records Kings Letters; Seall and Cashett of Councill or any key belonging therto; And that they have not fraudfully abstracted or put away any of them; And to report to the Councill; That the said Mr David Moncreif and his said servant may be exonered.

Edinburgh the Thrid day of December Jaj viic and Two years

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Order

Recommendation to Arburghill and Meggins to take Mr Moncreif late2 Clerk and his Servant their oathes

The Lords of her Majesties privy Councill Recommends to my Lord Aberurchill; Laird of Meggins; or any one of them to Call for Mr David Moncreif late Clerk of privy Councill and James Dalgleish his servant And take their oathes that they have non of the bonds; warrands processer depositiones taken theron or grounds therof Records Kings Letters; Seall and Cashett of Councill or any key belonging therto; And that they have not fraudfully abstracted or put away any of them; And to report to the Councill; That the said Mr David Moncreif and his said servant may be exonered.

1. NRS, PC1/52, 473.

2. Insertion.

1. NRS, PC1/52, 473.

2. Insertion.

Procedure, 3 December 1702, Edinburgh

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Edinburgh the Thrid day of December Jaj viic and Two years

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Procedure

Commissionis Thomas Pringle Scribis Signeto de Officio Unius ex duobus Clericis Secretaris Concilii

Commission under the Great Seall In favors of Mr Thomas Pringle writer to the Signet To be one of the two Clerks of her Majesties privy Councill dureing pleasure Read and ordered to be recorded; And the said Mr Thomas being present did receive the samen upon his knee as use is; And did therafter qualifie himself to her Majestie by Swearing the oath of alledgance and Sigening the same with the assurance; And Earle of Melvill Lord president of privy Councill Did tender to him the oath de fideli administratione officii.
Off the which Commission the tenor folloues
Anna dei Gratia Magnae Brittaniae Franciae et Hiberniae Regina fideique defensor; Omnibus probis hominibus ad quos praesentes Literae nostrae pervenerint Salutem; Quandoquidem nobis satis constet de fidelitate peritia et eximiis animi dotibus Confisi et dilecti Nostri Magistri Thomae Pringle scribae signeto nostro; quibus ad munus et officium unius Unius ex duobus Clericis Secreti nostri Consilii In antiquo hoc nostro Scotiae Regno obeundum in vice Magistri Davidis Moncreif apprime instructus et Idoneus reddatur Noveritis Igitur nos fecisse Constituisse et Ordinasse Tenoreque presentium (cum avisiamento2 et Consensu principalum Secretariorum Status Nostri in dicto regno) Facere Constituere et Ordinare dictum Magistrum Thomam Pringle durante nostro beneplacito solummodo Unum ex duobus Clericis Secretioris Nostri Consilii in dicto regno cum plena eidem potestate durante Spatio antedicto praedictum officium cum Custodia Signeti ejusdem Exercendi et obeundi Dando Concedendo et disponendo pro ut tenore praesentium damus Concedimus disponimus dicto Magistro Thomae Pringle omnia et singula privilegia et Immunitates salaria Casualitates emolumenta et proficua eo spectantia ab ipso potienda tam plene adeoque libere in omnibus respectibus ac conditionibus Ac quovis alius ex duobus Clericis Nostri Secretioris Consilii in dicto Regno iisdem perprius positus et Gavisus est. In Cujus Rei Testimonium praesentibus Magnum Sigillum Nostrum appendi Curavimu; Apud Aulam Nostram de St Jame’s3 Vigesimo quarto die Mensis Novembris Anno domini Millesimo septingentesimo secundo et Anno Regni nostri primo . Per Signaturam Manu S: D: N: Reginae suprascriptam
Wryten to the great Seall and registrat the Threttie day of November 1702 sic subscribitur Charles Kerr; Sealled at Edinburgh the Threttieth day of November Jaj viic and two years In absence of Sir Androw Hume; And by speciall Warrant till the sealls be renewed Sic Subscribitur George Kentone.

Edinburgh the Thrid day of December Jaj viic and Two years

A1702/12/71

Procedure

Commissionis Thomas Pringle Scribis Signeto de Officio Unius ex duobus Clericis Secretaris Concilii

Commission under the Great Seall In favors of Mr Thomas Pringle writer to the Signet To be one of the two Clerks of her Majesties privy Councill dureing pleasure Read and ordered to be recorded; And the said Mr Thomas being present did receive the samen upon his knee as use is; And did therafter qualifie himself to her Majestie by Swearing the oath of alledgance and Sigening the same with the assurance; And Earle of Melvill Lord president of privy Councill Did tender to him the oath de fideli administratione officii.
Off the which Commission the tenor folloues
Anna dei Gratia Magnae Brittaniae Franciae et Hiberniae Regina fideique defensor; Omnibus probis hominibus ad quos praesentes Literae nostrae pervenerint Salutem; Quandoquidem nobis satis constet de fidelitate peritia et eximiis animi dotibus Confisi et dilecti Nostri Magistri Thomae Pringle scribae signeto nostro; quibus ad munus et officium unius Unius ex duobus Clericis Secreti nostri Consilii In antiquo hoc nostro Scotiae Regno obeundum in vice Magistri Davidis Moncreif apprime instructus et Idoneus reddatur Noveritis Igitur nos fecisse Constituisse et Ordinasse Tenoreque presentium (cum avisiamento2 et Consensu principalum Secretariorum Status Nostri in dicto regno) Facere Constituere et Ordinare dictum Magistrum Thomam Pringle durante nostro beneplacito solummodo Unum ex duobus Clericis Secretioris Nostri Consilii in dicto regno cum plena eidem potestate durante Spatio antedicto praedictum officium cum Custodia Signeti ejusdem Exercendi et obeundi Dando Concedendo et disponendo pro ut tenore praesentium damus Concedimus disponimus dicto Magistro Thomae Pringle omnia et singula privilegia et Immunitates salaria Casualitates emolumenta et proficua eo spectantia ab ipso potienda tam plene adeoque libere in omnibus respectibus ac conditionibus Ac quovis alius ex duobus Clericis Nostri Secretioris Consilii in dicto Regno iisdem perprius positus et Gavisus est. In Cujus Rei Testimonium praesentibus Magnum Sigillum Nostrum appendi Curavimu; Apud Aulam Nostram de St Jame’s3 Vigesimo quarto die Mensis Novembris Anno domini Millesimo septingentesimo secundo et Anno Regni nostri primo . Per Signaturam Manu S: D: N: Reginae suprascriptam
Wryten to the great Seall and registrat the Threttie day of November 1702 sic subscribitur Charles Kerr; Sealled at Edinburgh the Threttieth day of November Jaj viic and two years In absence of Sir Androw Hume; And by speciall Warrant till the sealls be renewed Sic Subscribitur George Kentone.

1. NRS, PC1/52, 472-3.

2. Sic.

3. Sic.

1. NRS, PC1/52, 472-3.

2. Sic.

3. Sic.

Sederunt, 3 December 1702, Edinburgh

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Edinburgh the Thrid day of December Jaj viic and Two years1

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Sederunt

Earl of Melvill P:C:; Earl of Buchan; Earl of Loudoun; Earl of Leven; Earl of Northesk; Lord Aberurchill; Lord Halcraig; Mr Fra: Montgomry; Laird of Meggins

Edinburgh the Thrid day of December Jaj viic and Two years1

A1702/12/62

Sederunt

Earl of Melvill P:C:; Earl of Buchan; Earl of Loudoun; Earl of Leven; Earl of Northesk; Lord Aberurchill; Lord Halcraig; Mr Fra: Montgomry; Laird of Meggins

1. NRS, PC1/52, 472.

2. NRS, PC1/52, 472.

1. NRS, PC1/52, 472.

2. NRS, PC1/52, 472.