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<HEAD>ANSWERS for Colonel Sir JOHN HILL, Leiutenent Colonel JOHN FORBES, and JOHN FORBES Writer in <HI>Edinburgh.</HI> TO <HI>The Petition pre&s;ented be</HI> Allan Cathcart, James Meinzies, <HI>and</HI> Thomas Hamiltonn, <HI>late Captains of the &s;aid Colonel</HI> Hill's Regiment.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas the Petitioners alledge, That the &s;aids Colonel his Leiutenant Colonel, and <HI>John Forbes</HI> as Agent for the Regiment, uplifted the Regiments full Pay, and as yet has not compted for a great part thereof, as to the Petitioners proportions, <HI>qua</HI> Captains for them&s;elves and Com|panies; And therefore craving Compt and Payment of what is ju&s;tly due to them, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>An&s;werd, That <HI>1mo.</HI> The Petition and De&s;ire thereof is unintelligible, and impracticable to give Obedience to what is thereby craved; In re&s;pect that the Petitioners their Claim is altogether indefinit and illiquid, not conde&s;cending upon the Commencement of their Service, and Endurance thereof, nor upon the particular Summs due to them, and yet unpayed. So that <HI>e&s;to</HI> The Per|&s;ons Complained of, were charged with Horning in the Terms of this Petition, they &s;hould not know what Summ to pay, or how to give Obedience. And that therefore the Petitioners <HI>ante omnia</HI> ought to be &s;pecial in their Claims, whereby it would appear, that they have no ground to creat your Lord&s;hips or Others this Trouble, &s;ummarly by &s;uch a Clamorous Bill.</P>
<P><HI>2do. E&s;to</HI> the Petitioners were Special in their Claim, and the Colonel and Others, duely Cited, yet neither he nor his Leiutenent Colonel. or Agent would be found Lyable to the Petitioners. For <HI>1mo. John Forbes</HI> the Agent is Comptable only to the Colonel; By who&s;e Orders, he Di&s;pen&s;es the Regiments Money, and makes payment to the Re&s;pective Companies, and other u&s;es of the Regiment, and accordingly he has &s;o done, as <HI>per</HI> the Col|lonels la&s;t Di&s;charge in <HI>April</HI> by pa&s;t, for all the &s;aid <HI>John</HI> his Intromi&s;&s;ions with the Regiments Money, preceeding <HI>March</HI> 1698. <HI>2do.</HI> As to the Co|lonel, he oppones the&s;e very Petitioners, their Di&s;charges of their full pay|ment for them&s;elves, Subalterns and Companies to the &s;aid <HI>John Forbes,</HI> for the Moneth of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, and all proceedings. In contemplation where|of, and of the like Di&s;charge from every Captain and per&s;on el&s;e Concern|ed, the Collonel did give him the &s;aid General Di&s;charge; So that the Petitioners having Acknowledged their full payment, as &s;aid is, they were in the wrong to pre&s;ent any &s;uch Petition.</P>
<P>And <HI>3tio. Quoad</HI> the Leiutenent Collonel, the Petitioners doe mo&s;t Injuriou&s;|lie Acclaime any thing of him; Not only becau&s;e of their &s;aids Generall Di&s;|charges that outerly preclude them every manner of way, But likewi&s;e that the Lieutenent Collonel medles not farder then to Receive what is due to him&s;elf, from the Agent by the Collonels order, and accordingly he has Acknowledged him&s;elf payed, as <HI>per</HI> his Generall Di&s;charge, al&s;o to the A|gent for all by gones preceeding the beginning of <HI>March</HI> la&s;t. And &s;eeing there can be no nothing more Injurious then to Load Mens Reputations with your Lord&s;hips, as alledged Guilty of keeping up the Petitioners Pay, while the Contrair Appears, by the Evident Demon&s;tration afore&s;aid.</P>
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<P><HI>It is Humbly Hopt your Lord&s;hips will Refu&s;e the de&s;ire of the Petitioners Bill with a Repremand, for not better minding their &s;aids Di&s;charges, and good Offices done them by &s;o Obliging a Colonel, as they knew from ther Experience; Sir</HI> John Hill <HI>was to all his Officers and them in parti|cular.</HI></P>
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