Procedure: committee formed, 28 December 1706, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh the Sixteinth day of July J^aj vij^c and Six years

A1706/7/14

A1706/7/14¹

Judicial Proceeding

Approbation of the Sentence of death pronounced by the Comissioners appoynted for trying George and Lauchlane Rattrayes for the crymes of witchcraft Sorcery and Charmeing

Sir James Steuart her Majesties Advocat haveing represented to the Board that the Commissioners appoynted for trying of George and Lauchlane Rattrayes for the Crymes of witchcraft, sorcery and charmeing, had made report of the said tryall, The Lords of her Majesties Privie Councell Recommended to the said Sir James Steuart, and Lord Justice Clerk To peruse and consider the said² proces and tryall Against the Saids George and Lauchlane Rattrayes and to report, And the Said Committie not haveing mett, and the affair Lying over till the twentie fyfth day of June last, att which tyme the Same being again moved, The Saids Lords of her Majesties Privie Councell did therby Recomend to the former Committie appoynted to Consider the said proces and Sentence pronounced against the said George and Lauchlane Rattrayes to meet the nixt day therafter att three acloak in the afternoon, And added the Lords Ensteruther, Rankeillor and Minto to the Said Committie, and declaired any two a Quorum, And to report, Therafter wpon the Ellevinth day of July instant the said Committie haveing mett, and perused and considered the report of the said proces, as also the Commission of the Lords of Councell, with the Indytement wherupon the said tryall proceeded, They Fand the tryall was att the instance of the procurator Fiscall named in the Commission of Councell for her Majesties Interest, And that the Commissioners have³ therin proceeded orderly by giveing ther Interloquitor, Setting ane Assyse, and takeing the probation in Due manner, And that the verdict is distinct and aggreeable to the probation, And therfor are of oppinion that the wholl tryall is orderly proceeded, And remitted to the Lords of Councell to approve and ratifie the Same according to the reserve in their Commission given for that effect as the said report bears, And wpon the day and date of thir presents The Saids Lords of her Majesties Privie Councell haveing considered the sad above report, And the Samen with a petition be the saids George and Lauchlane Rattrayes being read in ther presence, The Saids Lords have Approven and heirby Approves of the Report of the Said Committie In the haill heads, articles and clauses therof, And have found and heirby Finds that the Commissioners nominat by the Councell have proceeded orderly by giveing ther Interloquitor, Setting ane Assyze, and takeing the probation in due maner, And that the verdict is distinct and aggreeable to the probation, And have Ratified and Approven, and heirby Ratifies and approves of the Sentence of death pronounced theron against the Saids George and Lauchlane Rattrayes, And have appoynted and ordained and heirby appoynts and ordains the Magistrats of Inverness to See and cause the Said Sentence of death pronounced against them by the Commissioners appoynted theranent, Be putt in execution against them wpon the Last wednsday of September nixt to come, att the Same place, and in the Same maner mentioned in the said Sentence Sic Subscribitur Montrose P. Buchan. Northesk. Forfar. Torphichen. Elibank. James Steuart. Gilbert Eliot. Archibald Douglass.