Act, 28 December 1693, Edinburgh

Edinburgh the Twentie Seventh of September J^aj vj^c nyntie thrie

D1693/9/19

D1693/9/19¹

Procedure: remission

Remitt to The Lords Commissioners of thesaurie The Shireff depute of Lanerk

Anent the petition given in to the Lords of ther Majesties privy Councill be John Simervell of Spittall shirreff depute of Lanerk Shewing That Notwithstanding the petitioner has for these severall years bygone been shireff depute of the said shirreffdome and has been put to vast charges and expences in dispatching the publict Concernes of the shyre direct to him by their Majesties advocat or solicitor and in causeing publish the severall proclamationes sent to him for calling out the heritors fenciblemen and Militia a the Crosses of the shyre and paroch Church doors therof, Which are Fourtie one in number besydes Glasgow, And the said shyre being thretie myles of length and in paying the messengers who execute the saids proclamations at the Crosses Lannerk Rutherglen and other places therby appoynted and Lykewayes in apprehending receweing and Transmitting of prisoners Vagabounds, Thives and Gipsies to the Shyre of Edinburgh with guards and apprehending trying and condemning malefactors and procureing executioners from Edinburgh for executeing of them after they were condemned and particularly in apprehending of the Gypsies and carieing of them to the prisone of Lanrick and procureing the said Lords warrand to bring them to Edinburgh and in mantaineing them in prison and causeing transport them to the Limitts of the said shyre on his oun charges in June last As alsoe in apprehending, trying and condemneing Grizell and James Walkers for murder and Insest and Agnes Wood for murder of a Chyld Conforme to ane Comission granted be the saids Lords of the date the Eightein day of September J^aj vj^c nyntie And bringing west the executioner from Edinburgh to execute them and sending him back with a guard By all quhich the petitioner has been exposed to more then the Soume of Thrie Thousand merks of expences, And seing that hitherto the petitioner has hade no other allowance for all his paines and expences in the saids affairs Bot meerly the Sentance money belonging to him as Judge And that the expences sustained by him in prosecuteing the forsaid publict concernes amount to so Considerable a soume and with all that they were all done by express Commissiones from the saids Lords or their majesties Solicitor and that the petitioner is now fiting his eque for the shyre And that the saids Lords can most fittly cognose upon the paines and Charges he hade been in prosecuteing the saids Lords their oun Commissiones and modifieing the same and grant warrand for allowing therof to the petitioner And Therfore Humbly Craveing the saids Lords to Recomend to the Lords Commissioners of their majesties thesaurie To allow the petitioner the said soume of thrie thousand merks ar so much therof as the saids Lords should please modifie, in the first end of the soumes that shall be fitted by him in the said eque as the said petition bears The Lords² of their Majesties privy Councill haveing heard this petition given in to them be the above John Simervel Read in their presence They heirby Recomend to the Lords Commissioners of their Majesties thesaurie To allow the petitioner the above soume or such part therof as they should think fitt in caice it shall be found by their Lordships either by the records or warrands of thesaurie or exchequer, or equies that they have been in use to allow the like to the petitioner or others in his circumstances formerly.