Act, 29 December 1692, Edinburgh

Edinburgh the Fourtein day of September J^aj vj^c nyntie two years

D1692/9/4

D1692/9/4¹

Order

Recomendatione Margrat Rasper

Anent a Petition given in to the Lords of their majesties privy Councill be Margrat Rasper relict of John Chalmers of Knockman Shewing That quher the petitioner being a poor widow was ejected most violently out of the petitioners possession by the Viscount of Kenmuir werof the petitioners husband and his predecessors hade been in possession thir sixtie years be vertue of Irredeemable infeftments of quhich the petitioner haveing Complained to the Saids Lords, Bot the Viscount Disregarding all the petitioner could doe thir two years bgyond But sufered himself to be denunced rebell and Compared not till of late and then gave in a bill of Suspensione and relaxatione quherupon both parties ware heard before the saids Lords which ware Remitted to a Committie and after a full hearing befor them and a Report of the said affair being made againe to the saids Lords, The petitioner was ordained to be repossessed be the Viscount, But such as the Viscounts Cruellty against the petitioner that when he hade nothing else to alledge why the petitioner should not be repossessed He procured a stop to the said decreet from the saids Lords upon this, Missrepresentatione that his Lordship and the petitioner was in termes of agreement, Which is ane absolute mistake and therby hade reduced her to the greatest Misery not haveing ane house to sett her head into nor any thing live upon, The viscount having taken all her goods from her the tyme of the said Illegall ejection, And seing her said afflictione and oppression by the Viscount is knowen to the saids Lords, And now after she had waitted almost two years for the saids Lords Justice her adversary doeth openly contemne all she could doe, or that the saids Lords had done in her favors knowing that throw he inability and powerty She was not able longer to subsist much less to prosecute her Complaint against him before the saids Lords wher she meetts with such hinderances And Therfore humbly Craveing the saids Lords (for the favor of god) To Consider her deplorable and oppressed conditione haveing no wher at present to Lay her head And take of the forsaid stopt And ordaine her Sumarly to be repossessed and the viscount to redeliver back the goods unjustly taken from her belonging to Mary Corsbie Conforme to her right therto therwith produced and allow her damnage which is great by and attour his wounding and blooding of the petitioner and give warrand to the Shirreff or Justice of peace to repossess her, as the petitione bears The Lords of their Majesties Privy Councill haveing Considered the above petition given in to them be the above Margrat Rasper They Recomend to Sir William Lockhart their Majesties Solicitor in whose favors the Viscount of Kenmuires escheat is gifted To make payment to the petitioner of the Soume of Ane Hundreth merks Scots money upon the accompt of the said Viscount whose Escheat is gifted upon letters at the petitioners instance And the Saids Lords Declaires that the said Soume shall be allowed to the said Viscount out of the first end of the Soumes or rents which shall be resting be him to the said petitioner In caice at the event of the process the Viscount shall not be found debitor to the petitioner In alse much as will satisfie the said soume for the pryce or value of the saids goods alledged taken away be him from her or her daughter, And Sists all furder procedure in the process betwixt the viscount and the petitioner Untill the first Councill day of November nixt to come.