Att Edinburgh The Seventeenth Day of February Jaj vjc nyntie Eight years
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A1698/2/291
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Interloquitor against the Earle of Seaforth
The Lyble or Horning att Sir James Stewart his Majesties Advocats Instance against Kenneth Earle of Seaforth Being called again this day And Both parties Compearing as upon the fifteenth Instant In presence of the Lords of his Majesties privy Councill And the said Lord Advocate and Sir Patrick Home his majesties Sollicitor Compearing personally for his majestys Interest as persuers And The said Kenneth Earle of Seaforth Defender Compearing also personally with Mr David Dalrymple Mr […] Cockburn Mr John Kincaid Mr David Forbes and Mr William Brodie his advocats. The saids Lords having Considered the Lyble or Horning and having heard the Lawiers on both sides fully in this matter, They heirby find That the said Earle of Seaforth was oblidged upon the charge given to him to have produced or at Least to have Searcht and done Diligence for finding out and producing the said […] McCleland and Doctor Cornelius Ocon, And Recommends to the said Lord Advocate To Intent and follow furth a process Before the Councill at his Instance against the said Earle of Seaforth for being accessory to, or Concerned In the Captivitie and privat Imprisonment of the said Cornelius Ocon and Employing […] McCleland in detaining him therin And That betwixt and the first day of July next to Come. And Confynes the said Earle in the mean tyme till the said first day of July next to this syde of the water of Forth, And Decerns and ordains the said Earle Instantly to give Bond and find […] Lord Duffus […] Ogilvie of Boyne and Sir William Scott younger of Harden Cautioners therein, That he shall appear before the Lords of privy Councill upon the first Thursday of Aprile next To come and In the mean Tyme That he shall Leave peaceably under and with all Submission To the present Government of his Majestie King William and that he shall not act consult nor Contrive any thing in prejudice thereof nor shall not Converse nor Correspond with any Rebells and that he shall Remain Confyned on this syde of the water of Forth and not goe without the Bounds of his said Confinement untill the said first day of July next to come be Elapsed and that under the penalty of Two Thousand pounds Sterling in caice he shall Transgress in any part of the premisses and upon Granting of this Bond ordains the Bond given by the Lord Forbes and the Laird of Grant as Cautioners for the said Earle of Seaforth upon the said fifteenth of February Instant to have produced the Earle this day which they have done, to be given up to the saids Cautioners for which this shall be to all concerned a sufficient warrand.
1. NRS, PC1/51, 366-7.
1. NRS, PC1/51, 366-7.