Judicial Proceeding, 10 December 1700, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh The Seventh day of May J^aj vii^c years

A1700/5/5

A1700/5/5¹

Letter: royal

Letter from the King for taking off the Duke of Gordons Confynement

The Letter underwritten from the King to the Councill Being Read was ordered to be Recorded, wherof the tenor Follows.
Sic Supra Scribitur William Rex
Right Trusty and right welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Right trusty and Entirely beloved Cousin and Councellor Right trusty and welbeloved Cousins and Councellors, Right trusty and welbeloved Councellors, and Trusty and welbeloved Councellors. We greet yow well. Whereas the Duke of Gordon has made Application to us, And Represented That his affairs do suffer much by his present Confynement, and That his health is Impaired therby. We doe Therfore authorize and require yow, To take off any Confynement he is under and to allow him Liberty to go about his affairs. he Finding Sufficient Baill To live peaceably under our Government and to appear before yow when called for For doing whereof This shall be your warrant And So we bid yow heartily farewell. Given at Court at Kensingtoun The First day of Aprile 1700, and of our Reign the Eleventh year. By his Majesties Command Seafield.