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ACCOUNT OF COMPENSATION PAID
BY GOVERNMENT TO THE SUFFERERS BY THE BURNING OF AUCHTERARDER, DUNNING,
BLACKFORD, MUTHILL, AND CRIEFF, IN 1715.
NOTWITHSTANDING the promises
made in the Chevalier's proclamation issued on his leaving Scotland, nothing
was done by the Court of St. Germains, the premise being probably viewed
there as contingent to be fulfilled on recovery of his right. Whether or not
this proclamation had any effect in causing the Hanoverian Government to
declare that the losses would be indemnified we cannot say, but, not long
after the conclusion of the war, steps were taken towards that end.
The Account of Compensation
here given is taken from the Extract Decree of the Commissioners of Inquiry
in the possession of W. L. Young, Esq., Auchterarder, to whom I am much
indebted for the use he has kindly given me of that interesting document.
Claims having been made by
the sufferers, a Commission of Inquiry* was instituted, and by a decree of
these Commissioners, dated 14th October, 1731, it was found and declared
that the claimants therein particularly named had fully proved the extent of
the losses by them actually and really sustained by the said burnings in
Scotland, to the amount of the several sums of money thereby to them
respectively decreed, and as they were well affected to His Majesty and
Government, that they were well entitled to the payment of the several sums
therein and hereafter mentioned, amounting in all to the sum of £4453 7s 6d
sterling, to be paid out of the first of the nett produce arising by the
rents, profits, or sale of the forfeited estates, after payment of all just
and lawful debts affecting the same, and of the salaries and other necessary
charges of the Commissioners for executing the Acts of Parliament made
thereanent, and that one or more certificates of debentures should be issued
for payment of the same
Upon the 6th of October,
1722, the Commissioners issued a decree or debenture to and in favour of
David Haldane of Aberuthven, one of the claimants, for himself, and as
assignee to the other claimants therein and afternamed, for payment to him
of £2502 5s 11d sterling, part of the sums contained in the decree above
mentioned, and certified that he in his own right and in the right of the
several other persons hereinafter named were justly entitled to the sums
after specified, viz.:
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