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<HEAD>To His Grace, his Maje&s;ties High Commi&s;&s;ioner, and the Right Ho|nourable E&s;tates of Parliament. THE PETITION OF The Principal and Ma&s;ters of the Mari&s;hal Colledge of <HI>Aberdeen</HI></HEAD>
<P>THAT where it has been his Maje&s;tie and Royal Predece&s;&s;ors con&s;tant care, to provide for and give all Incouragement to Univer&s;ities and Colledges, and by &s;everal Acts of Parlia|ment, there has been Vacant Stipends allowed them, for the u&s;e and upholding of their Fabricks; And now by the Late Act of Parliament, the Vacant Stipends being applyed for Pious u&s;es within the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> and we finding &s;ome years agoe that our Colledge was exceedingly decay'd, did adventure the Founding of a new Addition to the &s;aid Colledge, and by the Charitable A&s;&s;i&s;tance of &s;everal Gentlement in the Countrey and O|thers the Roof is fini&s;hed; Without any former Encouragement from the Publict, but a gift of two Vacancies, (which we have not as yet Received.) And there being no Fond left in our hands for Compleat|ing the &s;aid Work; And be&s;ide we being con&s;iderably in debt throw the great Advances thereupon, and &s;eing it will yet take a Con&s;iderable Expence to fini&s;h the &s;ame, we have humbly pre&s;um'd to make Application to your Grace and Honourable E&s;tates of Parliament, that we may be allowed the Vacant Stipends of &s;uch Churches whereof the Earl <HI>Mar&s;hal</HI> is Patron, to be applyed for the u&s;e fore&s;aid; As the &s;ame &s;hall happen to be Vacant by the decea&s;s or Removal of their Re&s;pective Incumbents.</P>
<P><HI>May it therefore plea&s;e your Grace, and Lord&s;hips, to con&s;ider the Pre|mi&s;&s;es, and to pa&s;s an Act Authorizing us to uplift the Vacant Sti|pends of &s;uch Churches whereof the Earl</HI> Mari&s;hal <HI>is Patron, Viz:</HI> Foveran, New-Dear, St. Brides, <HI>alias</HI> Dunnotar, Fetterre&s;&s;o, Old-Dear, Auchridie, Long&s;ide, Peter-head, St. Fergus, King-Edward, <HI>And any other whereof the Earl is Undoubted Patron; And to ordain Letters of Horning, and other Execution needfull, to pa&s;s at our In&s;tance, and our Succe&s;sers, again&s;t all others lyable in payment;</HI> And your Petitioners &s;hall ever pray, &amp;c.</P>
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