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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>To His Grace His Maje&s;ties High Commi&s;&s;ioner, and the Right Honourable the E&s;tates of Parliament;</HEAD>
<HEAD>The Petition of <HI>Alexander Hamiltoun</HI> of <HI>Kinkel.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THAT where by the Claim of Right. It is provided that all Forfault|ers, Fines, lo&s;s of Offices, Impri&s;onments, Bani&s;hments, Per&s;uits, per&s;ecutions, tortours, and rigorous executions, in the time of the late Reigns be con&s;idered, and the parties lei&s;ed, redre&s;&s;ed; True it is, that your Petitioner being guiltie of nothing, &s;ave <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tick non conformite;</HI> Yet in <HI>March</HI> 1675, A Gari&s;on of Souldiers were put in your Petitioners Hou&s;e, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed the &s;ame, forceing him and his Family to flee from it, when his Wife was bigg with Child, and knew not where to retire; And the&s;e Souldiers &s;ei&s;ed upon the Pleni&s;hing of your Petitioners hou&s;e, and upon all his Corns in Barn or Barn-yeard, which were in value above Ten Chalders of Victual, which at that time gave a very con&s;iderable price; So that his dammages at that time &s;u&s;tained in his Pleni&s;hing, hor&s;e Kine, and Corns, did extend to above &s;ix Thou&s;and Merks, and farder with|in a few weeks thereafrer your petitioner was intercommuned as a fugitive and rebel, in which hard&s;hip and di&s;tre&s;s your Petitioner continued for the &s;pace of 14 years, and all that time never returned to his own hou&s;e; But for three years of the 14, was under an Inditement of high Trea&s;on, and lay Pri&s;oner in the Tolbuith of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> for the &s;pace of eighteen Moneths, and the la&s;t &s;ix years thereof, was confined to the Town of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Whereby it appears, That your Petitioners Sufferings, Lo&s;s and Per&s;ecutions, have been very great. As al&s;o, That in all that time, your petitioner could neither pro&s;ecute nor defend any Rights pertaining to him, but was expo&s;ed to the running of all pre&s;criptions, for no Fault nor Negligence could be reckoned on his part.</P>
<P>May it therefore plea&s;e Your Grace and Lord&s;hips, To take the Premi&s;&s;es to your Con&s;ideration, for Reparation of your Petitioners Lo&s;&s;es, and Sufferings, in &s;uch manner as &s;hall be thought mo&s;t effectual. And farder to Declare, That in ca&s;e there be any Pre&s;criptions run again&s;t your Petitioner, that the &s;aids fourteen Years of your Petiti|oners Di&s;tre&s;s may not be reckoned, but di&s;counted. In re&s;pect it is evident, That your Petitioner was utterly <HI>non valens agere,</HI> which in all Law hinders the cour&s;e of Pre&s;cription. <HI>And your Grace and Lord&s;hips Petitioner &s;hall ever pray.</HI></P>
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