Act, 28 December 1693, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh the seventh day of September J^aj vi^c nyntie thrie years Eodem die postmeridiem

A1693/9/19

A1693/9/19¹

Order

Change of Mr Thomas Gordouns Confynment

Anent the petitione Given In to the Lords of their Majesties privie Counsell Be Mr Thomas Gordoune Humanist in the Kings Colledge of Aberdeine Sheuing That the petitioners son Mr Thomas Gordoune Having been by their Lordships ordor Confyned to the toune of Killmarnock wher he hes Continoued since June last And Having been taken some weeks agoe uith a violent bloody Flux wherby his Bodie Is extenuat to the danger of his Lyfe which is Instructed by testificats under the Hands of his phisitian and Apothecary produced uith the said petitione The petitioner now Humbly Represents that nothing can be more trowblesome and Greivous to him Then that his sone showld lye under suspicione of Being disaffected to the Government or that He should deny that submissione therto which their Lordships would requyre at his hands And the petitioner does Imput it meerly to the perverss dispositione of Evill Company that he hes had occasione frequently to Converss uith since he parted uith him For while he uas uith him at Aberdein a year agoe The petitioner had disposed him to a deutifull Complyance uith their Majesties Government And He is still Confident that if his son were near him and that he might have occasione to Converss uith him He uill yet be able to dispose him to better principles as Lykewayes the said Mr Thomas Is ane absolute strainger at Killmarnock the place of his Confynment and destitut both of the support of his freinds now in his sickness and necessity And of all Credite and means of subsistance which Cannot but be a Greiff to the petitioner now in his old age and at soe remot a distance from him And therfore Humbly Craving to the effect underwryten as the said petitione Bears The Saids Lords of their Majesties privie Councell Having Considered this petitione given In to them Be the above Mr Thomas Gordoune for Mr Thomas Gordoune his son uith the testificat of the said Mr Thomas his Indispositione produced theruith They heirby change the said Mr Thomas Gordoun his Confynment from the toune of Killmarnock to the house of the petitioner his father uithin the toune of Old Aberdein And allowes the said Mr Thomas to transport himself from Killmarnock to his said fathers house at Aberdeine And ordaines him to remaine Confyned therin And discharges him to Goe furth therof In respect the said Mr Thomas before changing his Confynment Hath Given bond and found sufficient Cautione acted in the books of privy Counsell That he shall Repaire straight to his fathers house and keep his Confynment as above appoynted And that he shall Live peacably under and uith all submission to the present Government of their Majesties King William and Queen Mary And that He shall not Act Consult or Contryve any thing In prejudice therof nor Converse or Correspond uith rebells And that he shall appear before the saids Lords when Called for under the penaltie of tuo thowsand merks scotts In caise he shall transgress in any part of the premisses