To His Grace His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Right Honourable the Estates of Parliament; the petition of Alexander Hamiltoun of Kinkel. Hamilton, Alexander, of Kinkel, fl. 1695. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03742 of text R223033 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing H475B). 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 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B03742 Wing H475B ESTC R223033 51617629 ocm 51617629 175252 2248532226

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B03742) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175252) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2724:13) To His Grace His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Right Honourable the Estates of Parliament; the petition of Alexander Hamiltoun of Kinkel. Hamilton, Alexander, of Kinkel, fl. 1695. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [Edinburgh : 1695] Caption title. Concerns the suffering and hardship endured by Alexander Hamilton for 14 years for religious nonconformity. In ms. on verso: Petition Alexr. Hamilton of Kinkell. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Hamilton, Alexander, -- of Kinkel, fl. 1695 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Early works to 1800. Requisitions, Military -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Dissenters, Religious -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Scotland -- History -- 1660-1688 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo To His Grace His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Right Honourable the Estates of Parliament; the petition of Alexander Hamiltoun of Kinkel. Hamiltoun, Alexander, of Kinkel 1695 3 469 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. 2013-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-12 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-01 Sampled and proofread 2014-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To His Grace His Majesties High Commissioner , and the Right Honourable the Estates of Parliament ; The Petition of Alexander Hamiltoun of Kinkel . Humbly sheweth ,

THAT where by the Claim of Right . It is provided that all Forfaulters , Fines , loss of Offices , Imprisonments , Banishments , Persuits , persecutions , tortours , and rigorous executions , in the time of the late Reigns be considered , and the parties leised , redressed ; True it is , that your Petitioner being guiltie of nothing , save Ecclesiastick non conformite ; Yet in March 1675 , A Garison of Souldiers were put in your Petitioners House , and possessed the same , forceing him and his Family to flee from it , when his Wife was bigg with Child , and knew not where to retire ; And these Souldiers seised upon the Plenishing of your Petitioners house , 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 considerable price ; So that his dammages at that time sustained in his Plenishing , horse Kine , and Corns , did extend to above six Thousand Merks , and farder within a few weeks thereafrer your petitioner was intercommuned as a fugitive and rebel , in which hardship and distress your Petitioner continued for the space of 14 years , and all that time never returned to his own house ; But for three years of the 14 , was under an Inditement of high Treason , and lay Prisoner in the Tolbuith of Edinburgh , for the space of eighteen Moneths , and the last six years thereof , was confined to the Town of Edinburgh , Whereby it appears , That your Petitioners Sufferings , Loss and Persecutions , have been very great . As also , That in all that time , your petitioner could neither prosecute nor defend any Rights pertaining to him , but was exposed to the running of all prescriptions , for no Fault nor Negligence could be reckoned on his part .

May it therefore please Your Grace and Lordships , To take the Premisses to your Consideration , for Reparation of your Petitioners Losses , and Sufferings , in such manner as shall be thought most effectual . And farder to Declare , That in case there be any Prescriptions run against your Petitioner , that the saids fourteen Years of your Petitioners Distress may not be reckoned , but discounted . In respect it is evident , That your Petitioner was utterly non valens agere , which in all Law hinders the course of Prescription . And your Grace and Lordships Petitioner shall ever pray .