ANSWERS for Colonel Sir JOHN HILL, Leiutenent Colonel JOHN FORBES, and JOHN FORBES Writer in Edinburgh. TO The Petition presented be Allan Cathcart, James Meinzies, and Thomas Hamiltonn, late Captains of the said Colonel Hill's Regiment.  
WHereas the Petitioners allege, That the said's Colonel his Lieutenant Colonel, and John Forbes as Agent for the Regiment, uplifted the Regiments full Pay, and as yet has not counted for a great part thereof, as to the Petitioners proportions, qua Captains for themselves and Companies; And therefore craving Compt and Payment of what is justly due to them, etc.  
Answered, That 1mo. The Petition and Desire thereof is unintelligible, and impracticable to give Obedience to what is thereby craved; In respect that the Petitioners their Claim is altogether indefinite and illiquid, not condescending upon the Commencement of their Service, and Endurance thereof, nor upon the particular Sums due to them, and yet unpayed. So that esto The Persons Complained of, were charged with Horning in the Terms of this Petition, they should not know what Sum to pay, or how to give Obedience. And that therefore the Petitioners ante omnia ought to be special in their Claims, whereby it would appear, that they have no ground to create your Lordships or Others this Trouble, summarily by such a Clamorous Bill.  
2do. Esto the Petitioners were Special in their Claim, and the Colonel and Others, duly Cited, yet neither he nor his Leiutenent Colonel. or Agent would be found Liable to the Petitioners. For 1mo. John Forbes the Agent is Comptable only to the Colonel; By whose Orders, he Dispenses the Regiments Money, and makes payment to the Respective Companies, and other uses of the Regiment, and accordingly he has so done, as per the Colonels last Discharge in April by past, for all the said John his Intromissions with the Regiments Money, preceding March 1698. 2do. As to the Colonel, he oppones these very Petitioners, their Discharges of their full payment for themselves, Subalterns and Companies to the said John Forbes, for the Month of February last, and all proceed. In contemplation whereof, and of the like Discharge from every Captain and person else Concerned, the Colonel did give him the said General Discharge; So that the Petitioners having Acknowledged their full payment, as said is, they were in the wrong to present any such Petition.  
And 3tio. Quoad the Leiutenent Colonel, the Petitioners do most injuriously Acclaime any thing of him; Not only because of their saids General Discharges that outerly preclude them every manner of way, But likewise that the Lieutenent Colonel medles not farther than to Receive what is due to himself, from the Agent by the Colonels order, and accordingly he has Acknowledged himself paid, as per his General Discharge, also to the Agent for all by gones' preceding the beginning of March last. And seeing there can be no nothing more Injurious then to Load men's Reputations with your Lordships, as alleged Guilty of keeping up the Petitioners Pay, while the Contrair Appears, by the Evident Demonstration aforesaid.  
 
It is Humbly Hoped your Lordship's will Refuse the desire of the Petitioners Bill with a Repremand, for not better minding their said's Discharges, and good Offices done them by so Obliging a Colonel, as they knew from their Experience; Sir John Hill was to all his Officers and them in particular.