Act, 6 October 1697, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh the fifth day of January J^aj vi^c nyntie seven years

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Act

Act Changing the sentence of Death against Thomas Weir

The Lord Justice Clerk and the Commissioners of his Majesties Justiciary Represented to the Councill that one Thomas Weir and another with him who is since dead were sentenced to death for robbing and breaking of houses And that they think the persone yet alyve has been Led asyde by Ill Company And therfore desyred that the Councill would Change his Sentence from death to banishment and send him abroad for a souldier And Give him to some persone who will maintaine him till he goe abroad The Lords of his Majesties privie Councill Doe heirby Change the sentence of death pronounced by the saids Lords Commissioners of Justiciary against the said Thomas Weir from death to Banishment And banishes the said Thomas Weir out of his Majesties dominions And appointes him to Inact himself in the books of privy Counsell that he shall never return uithin his Majesties dominions After he departs furth of the samen And the saids Lords doe heirby Give order and warrand to the Magistrats of Edinburgh and Keeper of their tolbooth to delyver the said Thomas Weir after he has Inacted himself as said is to Captain […] Home of Manderstoun to be sent abroad by him as a souldier In his Majesties Service in Flanders The said Captain aluayes maintaining and subsisting the said Thomas Weir untill he be transported furth of this Kingdome Sic Subscribitur Poluarth councelar Argyll Mortoun Leven Forfar James Steuart Adam Cockburn W Hamilton Andrew Muire.