Act, 14 August 1700, Edinburgh

Judicial Proceeding, 10 December 1700, Edinburgh

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Act Liberating Donald McEean vic Allister upon his Finding Caution To Compear when Called for

Anent The Petition given in To His Majesties high Commissioner and the Lords of his Majesties privy Councill By Donald McEan vic Allister in Achnabat, now prisoner in the Tolbooth of Inverness. Shewing That where The late Commissioners of Justiciary having Receaved some wrongous Information against their Petitioner as if he hade been accessory To a Depredatione or Robbery. Their Petitioner being Conscius of his own Innocency, made no Ceremony to appear, at the last Justiciary Court held at Inverness in December now bypast, That his honesty might be vindicated upon the Event of a fair Tryall, In order to which he was Committed Prisoner, in the Tolbooth of Inverness, as per the Commission of Justiciary having in the Interim Expyred, Their Petitioner has Continued to this hour prisoner, without any Tryall To his own and poor families utter Ruine, And Seing Their Petitioner offers Caution beyond Exception viz William McIntosh of Borlum, That upon Twenty one days Citation, Their Petitioner Shall Sist himself at Inverness before the next Commissioners of Justiciary, or before the Lord Justice Generall and Lords Commissioners of Justiciary at Edinburgh or Either of them their Lordships Shall Think Fitt, For undergoing the tryall for whatsoever Crymes he can be Charged with. And Therfore Humbly Craving To the Effect underwrittin as the said petition bears. His Majesties high Commissioner and Lords of his Majesties privy Councill, Haveing Considered this Petition given in to them by Donald Mackean vic Alister, They heirby give order and warrand To the magistrats of Inverness, and Keeper of their Tolbooth, To Set the petitioner at Liberty, Furth thereof, In Respect William McIntosh of Borlum, has given Bond and Enacted himself in the books of privy Councill, That he shall present the said Petitioner, Before the Lords of privy Councill or Commissioners of the next Highland Justiciary or the Lords of his Majesties Justiciary att Edinburgh or Either of them, and That he shall undergo his tryall for whatsoever Crymes, shall be laid to his Charge, And That whensoever he shall be called for, and Required therto, under the penalty of Fyve Hundered merks Scots money.

Att Edinburgh The Fourteenth day of August Jaj viic years

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Act Liberating Donald McEean vic Allister upon his Finding Caution To Compear when Called for

Anent The Petition given in To His Majesties high Commissioner and the Lords of his Majesties privy Councill By Donald McEan vic Allister in Achnabat, now prisoner in the Tolbooth of Inverness. Shewing That where The late Commissioners of Justiciary having Receaved some wrongous Information against their Petitioner as if he hade been accessory To a Depredatione or Robbery. Their Petitioner being Conscius of his own Innocency, made no Ceremony to appear, at the last Justiciary Court held at Inverness in December now bypast, That his honesty might be vindicated upon the Event of a fair Tryall, In order to which he was Committed Prisoner, in the Tolbooth of Inverness, as per the Commission of Justiciary having in the Interim Expyred, Their Petitioner has Continued to this hour prisoner, without any Tryall To his own and poor families utter Ruine, And Seing Their Petitioner offers Caution beyond Exception viz William McIntosh of Borlum, That upon Twenty one days Citation, Their Petitioner Shall Sist himself at Inverness before the next Commissioners of Justiciary, or before the Lord Justice Generall and Lords Commissioners of Justiciary at Edinburgh or Either of them their Lordships Shall Think Fitt, For undergoing the tryall for whatsoever Crymes he can be Charged with. And Therfore Humbly Craving To the Effect underwrittin as the said petition bears. His Majesties high Commissioner and Lords of his Majesties privy Councill, Haveing Considered this Petition given in to them by Donald Mackean vic Alister, They heirby give order and warrand To the magistrats of Inverness, and Keeper of their Tolbooth, To Set the petitioner at Liberty, Furth thereof, In Respect William McIntosh of Borlum, has given Bond and Enacted himself in the books of privy Councill, That he shall present the said Petitioner, Before the Lords of privy Councill or Commissioners of the next Highland Justiciary or the Lords of his Majesties Justiciary att Edinburgh or Either of them, and That he shall undergo his tryall for whatsoever Crymes, shall be laid to his Charge, And That whensoever he shall be called for, and Required therto, under the penalty of Fyve Hundered merks Scots money.

1. NRS, PC1/52, 150.

1. NRS, PC1/52, 150.