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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	say_a	value_n	yearly_a	2,391	5	10.4409	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03726	To His Grace, His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Right Honourable the Estates of Parliament. The petition of Alexander Hunter of Muirhouse.	Hunter, Alexander, of Muirhouse, fl. 1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing H3764E; ESTC R178318	1,424	2

To his Grace His Majesties high Commissioner and the Right Honourable the Estates of Parliament The PETITION of Alexander Hunter of Muirhouse Humbly sheweth THat where the deceast Mr. Alexander Hamilton my Grand-father provided me to the sum of ten thousand Pounds Scots Money and thereafter I was married to Barbara Moncreiff with whom I had the like sum of ten thousand Pounds of Tochar both which and eight thousand Merks with my Mother were uplifted by the deceast Mr. James Hunter of Muirhouse my Father and applyed to his own proper use In remuneration whereof my Father did secure me in the sum of an hundred Pound sterl yearly out of the Lands of Muirhouse during his Lifetime and provided me to the Fee of the said hail Lands extending to twenty eight Chalder of Victual or thereby of yearly Rent And my Father being involved in great and considerable sums of Money far exceeding the Value and Estate of Muirhouse and all his other Real and Personal Estate did induce me to engage as Principal and Cautioner for him in the greatest part of all his Debts And from term to term when new Bonds were subscribing he made me believe that the sums borrowed at these terms were to satisfie and clear off other Creditors to whom I was formerly bound for him And I being bound in duty not to distrust any thing which my Father said never made any further enquiry but believed that when I subscribed new Bonds they came in place of former neither did I ever doubt the same until the time of my Fathers sickness whereof he died and then it did but too evidently appear to my sad experience that there was little or no part of the sums wherein I was first engaged for my Father satisfied and taken off by the Money borrowed thereafter By which means though there was none of the sums for which I was engaged for my Father applyed to my use Yet I was necessitate to prevent the rigorous Diligence of Creditors to take Sanctuary in the Abbay ever since my Fathers death And seing your Petitioner was most innocently inveigled by the Perswasions of his Father out of the duty and respect which he owed to him without making any enquiry into the condition of his Affairs whereby I am a greater loser my self by far than any of his Creditors In respect any Fortune I had aliundi by my Grand-father and Wife which was considerable as is above mentioned being swallowed up in that gulf of Debts due by my Father And it being the custome of all Nations in the World when Debitors become insolvent by misfortune and without using any fraudulent or sinistrous Methods to grant them personal Liberty which were very hard to deny in a case so circumstantiat as mine Especially I being willing instantly to dispone to my Fathers Creditors all Estate Real and Personal belonging to my self or that can accress to me any manner of way through the decease of my Father and to denude my self of the 〈◊〉 omni hab●●● modo at the sight of any Committee that shal be appointed by Your Grace and Honourable Estates of Parliament And likewise since my continuance under Restraint can never advance the interest of my Fathers Creditors neither can my personal Protection prejudge them But on the contrary if I were at liberty I would concur with them in making my Fathers Fortune effectual for payment of his Debts As also by the favour and assistance of Friends I may be advanced to some Employment whereby I may have a Livelyhood for my self and Family May it therefore please your Grace and Lordships to take my Case and Circumstances to your serious Consideration and upon my signing of the foresaid Disposition to grant me personal Protection during all the days of my Life time for such Debts and Sums of Money as I was resting at the time of my Fathers decease And to discharge Messengers and other Officers to put any Caption or Acts of Warding in execution against me for the Causes foresaid And your Grace and Lordships Answer is humbly prayed for