Act, 29 December 1692, Edinburgh

Edinburgh the fourtein day of Jully J^aj vj^c nyntie two years

D1692/7/15

D1692/7/15¹

Act

Act Margrat Rasper Against The Viscount of Kenmure

Anent a Petition given in to Lords of their majesties privy Councill be poor Margrat Rasper Shewing That the petitioner being a poor widdow was ejected most violently out of her possession by the Viscount of Kenmuir his Chamberland and their accomplices of quich the petitioner Complained to their Lordships Bot the Viscount Disregairding any thing the petitioner could doe Compeired not, Bot sufered himself to be denunced, And when in march last he gave in a bill of suspensione and relaxatione, And the said petitioner Compeired to answer, The saids Lords ordained him to pay to the petitioner two hundred merks of aliment And Declared that upon the payment he was to be relaxed from the horne of Consent, Bot tho the petitioners has Caused charge him with horning and Denunced him for not payment of the said aliment yet the said Viscount Contempteously refuses, And albeit the saids Lords by their feist deliverance ordained the said petitioner to insist in her principall Lybell againe the first of June, yet such is the said viscounts opression that the not only dispises to relax himself and Compeir Bot by threatning and otherwayes keeps back the said Petitioners witnesses that she Cannot gett them in it being beyond her power to take out and executed Caption against them In Respect of the said petitioners extream poverty and distress Which is in effect all the Viscounts confidence And seing that the saids Lords may by these things clearly see the petitioners sad afflictione and oppression And that after now haing waited almost a year and ane half for the saids Lords Justice The petitioners adversary doeth openly contemne all she can doe or that their Lordships hath inability and poverty she is not able longer to subsist muchless to prosecute her Complaint against him before the saids Lords wher she mett with such hinderance And Therfore Humbly Craving their Lordships In Respect of the Viscounts manifast contempt and being denunced of the horse now for ane second tyme To ordaine the said petitioner to be sumarly repossessed in the roome and lands whence she was ejected and Deliver back her goods and geir taken from her most wrongeously or the value therof And allow the said petitioner for her damnadge which is great by and attour his wounding blooding of the said petitioner and Cheldrein And to give warrand to the shireff or any two of the Justice of peace to repossess her brevi manu without farder delay as the said petitione bears. The Lords of Their majesties privy Councill haveing Considered this Petition given in to them be the above Margrat Rasper They Recommend to their Majesties Soliciter to pass and exped a gift of the Viscount of Kenmures Escheat for their majesties behoove upon the horning raised at the petitioners instance against him for payment of the said two hundred merks of expences And in the mean tyme Recommends to the Lords Commissioners of their Majesties thesaurie to cause payment be made of the said soume of Two Hundreth Merks to the petitioner in place of the two hundreth merks of expences appoynted by the Councill to have been payed to the viscount to her.