Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

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ccxviii JAMES, EAKJ. OF AXXAK1>AI,K AND IIAUTFELL, 1C53-1G72.
In the following year one more, payment was made in connection with
the earl's retour of service. It is thus entered in the account of the
Aimandale chamberlain under date
'" 1C54-, FeLniarii IStli. Itein to AiiJro Mairtcin, writer, for liis paines taken
in righting your lordships retours and helping of the service which wcs severall
wayes wrong, £G6, 13s. -Id."
In the years 1654 and 1655, the Earl of Hartfell was largely occupied and
put to much trouble negotiating the remission of a fine ^vith which he was
burdened in the following circumstances: Cromwell's council of state by
" An ordinance of pardon and grace to the people of Scotland," dated 12th
April 1654, imposed heavy fines on the Scottish nobility and gentry to be
paid in two moieties ou 2d August and 2d December following respectively,
under penalty of confiscation of their estates.'' The Earl of Hartfell, whose
fine amounted to £2000,- in common with others also fined, felt aggrieved,
and applied to the council to be relieved froin the fine. The council remitted
the subject to a committee. In the meantime the Earl of Hartfell was not
idle in the matter, as the following excerpts from his chamberlain's accounts
for the period will show :
" 1C54, June 27lh. To Mr. Mosley, clerk to the fyoe.s, for his favour to your
lordships particulars in these, .... £30
" To his man, a dollar, . . . , . 2 18
" Item m drink, etc., to a four liouies with hiin, . .070
" 1,654, October IGth. Item to ]\Ir. Mosley, clerk to the fynes,
at the extracting of your lordships report of friedom of
the fyne, 10 doUors, . . . . . 29 12
" Iteln to bis dcput for an extract of the
for your lordship to the commissar,
wholl pai>ers given
. . .600"^
'Acts of the Parliameuta of Scotlniitl, "thereafter liyjiublictact restricted to jESuOO."
voL vi. i.art ii. i^ip. SlT-SiO. [Anuauda'.e I'eerage Miuutes of Evidence,
^ lu an account of his suflerings and fines 1S7S, 1>. 733.1
which the Earl of Hartfell afterwards made ' Accounts in Annandale Charter-chest,
use of in his claim for eompecsation, he states One of the English judges r.pj/ointed oy
that his tine amounted to £4000 sterling Cromwell to administer the law at Edin-