Unto his Grace the Duke of Argile her Majesty's High Commissioner, and the right honourable Estates of Parliament. The petition of John Corss writer in Edinburgh. Corss, John. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B02397 of text T195691 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C6347B). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 B02397 Wing C6347B ESTC T195691 53981635 ocm 53981635 180189 2240871803

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B02397) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180189) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2819:43) Unto his Grace the Duke of Argile her Majesty's High Commissioner, and the right honourable Estates of Parliament. The petition of John Corss writer in Edinburgh. Corss, John. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [Edinburgh : 1650] Caption title. Imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Martin, Andrew, d. 1650 -- Library. Archives -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Book donations -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. B02397 T195691 (Wing C6347B). civilwar no Unto His Grace the Duke of Argile Her Majesty's High Commissioner, and the Right Honourable the Estates of Parliament. The petition of John Corse, John, writer in Edinburgh 1650 1 407 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 Sampled and proofread 2008-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Unto His Grace the Duke of Argile Her Majesty's High Commissioner , and the Right Honourable the Estates of Parliament . THE PETITION OF John Corss Writer in Edinburgh . Humbly Sheweth ,

THat the deceast Andrew Martine Writer in Edinburg'h , from the great respect he bore to his Native Country , and particularly for Preservation 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 ) absconded himself with them in the Highlands of this Kingdom , where he preserved them from the Enemy , with a great deal of Expenses and Fatigue , there being upwards of 100 large Folios , and that for the space of Ten years at least , to the hazard of his Life , and irrecoverable ruin of his Family : And the saids Books being some time ago fallen in your Petitioners hand thorow the Death of the said Andrew Martin , and of his Son , whom your Petitioner was necessitat to supply , in advancing considerable Sums to him on the Faith of these Books ; and conceiving they may be of publick Use ; especially seing they contain the Records of Charters , Precepts , Gifts of Teinds , Presentations to Kirks and Benefices in the several Provostries , Priories and Prebendries , from the Year of GOD 1499 , to the Year of GOD 1650 , together with their Minut Books , during all that time , exactly corresponding ; as also a Record containing the Taxation upon the Clergy of Scotland for sending their Delegats to the Council of Trent , and other old Taxations . Your Petitioner also humbly conceives , that these Records are of the more Use and Value ; because the Records of the Chancery , and other Records suffered much when they were transported to England , and much more by the Misfortune that befel them at Sea in their return .

May it therefore please your Grace and Lordships , to order the foresaids Records to be put into publick Custody , and to appoint your Petitioner such a Reward for the Expenses and great Pains that has been bestowed in preserving these Records , as your Grace and Lordships in your great Goodness and Bounty shall think fit .

And your Petitioner shall ever Pray , &c.