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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>Unto His Grace the Duke of <HI>Argile</HI> Her Maje&s;ty's High Commi&s;&s;ioner, and the Right Honourable the E&s;tates of Parliament. THE PETITION OF <HI>John Cor&s;s</HI> Writer in <HI>Edinburgh.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat the decea&s;t <HI>Andrew Martine</HI> Writer in <HI>Edinburg'h,</HI> from the great re&s;pect he bore to his Native Country, and particularly for Pre|&s;ervation of the Ancient Records thereof, having in the year of GOD 1650 (at which time he had the care of the Records of the privy Seal) ab&s;conded him&s;elf with them in the Highlands of this Kingdom, where he pre&s;erved them from the Enemy, with a great deal of Expen&s;es and Fatigue, there being upwards of 100 large Folios, and that for the &s;pace of Ten years at lea&s;t, to the hazard of his Life, and irrecoverable ruin of his Family: And the &s;aids Books being &s;ome time ago fallen in your Petitioners hand thorow the Death of the &s;aid <HI>Andrew Martin,</HI> and of his Son, whom your Petitioner was nece&s;&s;itat to &s;upply, in advancing con&s;i|derable Sums to him on the Faith of the&s;e Books; and conceiving they may be of publick U&s;e; e&s;pecially &s;eing they contain the Records of Charters, Precepts, Gifts of Teinds, Pre&s;entations to Kirks and Benefices in the &s;eve|ral Provo&s;tries, Priories and Prebendries, from the Year of GOD 1499, to to the Year of GOD 1650, together with their Minut Books, during all that time, exactly corre&s;ponding; as al&s;o a Record containing the Taxati|on upon the Clergy of <HI>Scotland</HI> for &s;ending their <HI>Delegats</HI> to the Council of Trent, and other old Taxations. Your Petitioner al&s;o humbly conceives, that the&s;e Records are of the more U&s;e and Value; becau&s;e the Records of the Chancery, and other Records &s;uffered much when they were tran&s;por|ted to <HI>England,</HI> and much more by the Misfortune that befel them at Sea in their return.</P>
<P><HI>May it therefore plea&s;e your Grace and Lord&s;hips, to order the fore&s;aids Records to be put into publick Cu&s;tody, and to ap|point your Petitioner &s;uch a Reward for the Expen&s;es and great Pains that has been be&s;towed in pre&s;erving the&s;e Records, as your Grace and Lord&s;hips in your great Goodne&s;s and Bounty &s;hall think fit.</HI></P>
<CLOSER>And your Petitioner &s;hall ever Pray, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></CLOSER>
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