At Holyrudhouse the tuenty eight day of May one thousand sex Hundred nynty and fyve years
A1695/5/21
A1695/5/211
Act
Act Edmonstoune of Ednem
Anent the petitione given in to2 his majesties High Commissioner and Remanent Lords of his majesties privy Councill by Andrew Edmonstoune of Ednem Shewing That where after a long imprisonment in the Castle of Blackness The said petitioner was alloud to retire to his owne House upon his finding Caution to be confyned within two myles of his dwelling which Confynement he hath most exactly observed ever since his being liberat from the said Castle, to his great detriment and Loss both in his privat affairs in the Countrey where he lives and at Edinburgh where busines of his concern of very great importance hath been delayed and partly intirely lost by reasone of his absence and which the said petitioner can never expect to retrive3 but by the said Lords ther favor And therfore Craveing the said Lords to take of the said petitioners Confynement and allow Him to goe about his affairs and business at Edinburgh or elsewhere upon his finding sufficient Cautione to appeare before the said Lords when called as the said petitione bears His majesties high Commissioner and the Lords of privy Councill haveing Considered the foresaid petitione given in to them by the said Andrew Edmonstoune They hereby take of the said petitioners Confynement and declare Him to be at full liberty to goe about his affairs as any other of his majesties free Leidges In respect He hes Given bond and found sufficient Cautione acted in the books of privy Councill That He shall live peaceablie under and with all submissione to the present Government of his Majestie King William and that he shall not act consult nor contryve any thing in prejudice and that He shall appear before the said Lords of privy Councill when called for under the penalty of fyve thousand marks scots money in case He shall transgress in any part of the premisses and upon granting the said bond ordained the former bond to be given up
1. NRS, PC1/50, 197-8.
2. The phrase ‘the Lords of’ scored out here.
3. Doubtful reading.
1. NRS, PC1/50, 197-8.
2. The phrase ‘the Lords of’ scored out here.
3. Doubtful reading.