BY THE COMMITTEE Appointed for Auditing and Stating the ACCOUNTS betwixt the PUBLIC, and the Successors of Sir WILLIAM DICK late of Edingburgh, Merchant.  
Whereas upon Application made by the Successors of Sir William Dick, unto the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, for satisfaction of those great Sums alleged to be due unto the said Sir William, by the Public of both Nations, aswell England as Scotland. The Parliament taking the same into their consideration, have referred the stating the said Accounts, in so far as relates to Scotland, to his Highness' Council here, who have by their Order of date the Nineteenth day of August last passed, appointed Us to hear and state the same. Now, to the end the same may be more exactly and impartially done without prejudice to either party; We finding that Sir William Dick hath charged himself with several considerable Sums of Moneys received from several persons upon account of the Public, whereunto We being altogether strangers, have, for Our better Information and Satisfaction therein, thought fit to call for, And do hereby call for, and desire these persons following, or those who represent them, if any of them be dead or out of the Country, to appear before Us at the Council Chamber in Edinburgh, or any of Us, any time before the Twentieth of November next, between the hours of Nine and Twelve in the forenoon, And there exhibit to Us, or any of Us, all and every Acquittance or Acquittances, they have for any Money paid by them, or their Assigns, to Sir William Dick, or his Assigns, upon account of the Public, since the Twenty seventh of November, One thousand six hundred forty six; or, through want of the said Acquittance, to declare the same under their Hands, both how much, and when they paid it: Viz. Sir Adam Hepburne sometime Commissary, John Hamilton of Kinglasse, Sir James Fowls, Sir John Cooper, Sir Patrick Hamilton, Harry Elphiston, Lord Elebanck, Sir George Sterling of Keire, Sir James Nicholson, Mr. John English, Sir John Dalmahoy, Thomas Craig of Rickarton, Mr. Robert Preston, James Hamilton of Wastport, Sir Alexander Hume of haliburton, Laird of Lugton, the Laird Elphiston, the Earl of Lowdian, the Master of Grace, the Laird of Cunninghamhead, the Laird of Wedderburne, the Laird of Minto, Mr. James Strachan, Mr. Adam Cunningham, the Laird of Greenock, the Laird of Glenkindy, the Earl of Hume, the Earl Dalhousie, the Lord Burley, the Lord Freeland, the Laird Dundass elder, William Drummond of Rickarton, Mr. Thomas Rig of Atherney, the Lord Melvill, Mr. Robert Barckley, John Cockburne in Haddington, the Laird of Touch, Lord Dury, Sir John Weames, Sir James Stewart, Sir John Smith, And all and every other person and persons whatsoever, who by themselves, or their Assigns, have paid unto the said Sir William Dick, or his Assigns, any Sum or Sums of Money upon account of the Public as aforesaid, or any that can give any Intimation of any Sums intromitted with by Sir William, or his Assigns, belonging to the Public, to the end the Public being fully charged by the said Sir William, they may also (as far as may) be fully discharged.  
At EDINBURGH, the 12. of October, 1657. Signed in the Name, and by Order of the Committee. ADRIAN SCROPE.   

EDINBURGH, Printed by Christopher Higgins, in Hearts Close, over against the Trone-Church, 1657.