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CC JAMKS JOHNSTONE, FIRST EARL OF IIARTFELL, 1C0S-1G53.
accepted of present payment of 100,000 nieiks, and continued the payment
of the superplus till next parliament. The earl next petitioned the estates,
enumerating his sutTcrings and losses, namely, the payment of 100,000 merks
Scots, and of another 1000 merks Scots, the quartering of soldiers upon his
lands, and the rifling the house of Ncwhie of its silver plate and household
plenishings, wliieh he estimated to amount to a loss of £2000 sterling; and
praying the estates to remit tlie halance of his fine, so that his familj' should
not be altogether crushed. He asked further to be " redintegrat to the good
opinion of the parliament and reputit be them as auc honest and trew patriot." '
Parliament agreed to the prayer of this petition, and granted the earl a
discharge, in full satisfaction of all sentences formerly passed against hirn.-
Also, in resjject of the spoiling of Isewhie, ^vhich had been done by an
English officer named JIajor Earras, from Cumberland, )>arliament directed
the matter to be reported to the English commissioners, and ordained
letters of recommendation to be \\"ritten in his favour to the committee of
Cumberland desiring them to see him restored to the property taken out of
his house.^
In addition to satisfying the state, the earl had also to satisfy the kirk
for his violation of the Covenant. In obedience to their summons, he, on 18th
November IGIG, after his liberation from prison by parliament, appeared
before the Commission of the General Assembly, whose minutes bear that he
then declared his sense of his bygone offence in joining with the rebels, and
his willingness to si bmit himself to the censure of the clairch for the same.
Therefore, the Commission of Assembly remitted him to the presbytery of
Lochmaben, that they might enjoin and receive his satisfaction according to
the act of Assembly, and appointed tlio j^resbytery to return account of their
diligence herein.*
' Petition in Annandale Chartcr-clieot. ^ Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, vul.
- Acts of tLe Parliaments of Scotland, vol. vi. part i. p. 827.
vi. part i. p. 75-1. Cf. Annandale Peerage * Proceedings of the Commission of the
Minntes of Evidence, ISTS, pi). 72C-7-S. General Assembly, 1C.1(;-1G4S, i>. 105.