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Act, 21 February 1695, Edinburgh

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Act John Irvin for the Toune of Dumfrees

Anent a Supplication given in to the Lords of his Majesties privy Councill be John Irvine of Drumcoltrane in name of the toun of Drumfrees Shewing That quher the petitioner did present to Captaine Campbell on of Coll Douglas his Captaines two suficient souldiers in name of the said toune for the last Levie who secured them in the prisone of Dumfrees till he should Call for them and grant recept And true it is that the petitioners Could not obtaine the said recept till the petitioners brought the said Captaine to his Coll who gave him assurance that he hade received them and quherupon the said Coll Granted his recept as the samen thertwith produced would testifie And being informed that ther Lordships upon ane misrepresentatione that the petitioners were deficient and hade not delyvered ther souldiers in due time)2 have fyned the petitioners in four hundred merks nothwithstanding that the petitioner were never deficient Bot most ready to Contribute their outmost endeavors for the present government, as ane instrument under the hand of John Herries nottar publict delyvered to the said Coll Douglas would testifie And Therfore Humbly Supplicating the saids Lords to the effect aftermentioned The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill Haveing Considered this petition given in to them be the above John Irving with Coll Douglas his recept or discharge mentioned therin and produced therwith They hereby Exoner the petitioner and the toune of Dumfrees of the above four hundred merks of fyne for alledged deficiencie And sustaines the Collonells Discharge for the two Souldiers and Discharges any persone to trouble or mollest them for ther deficiency in the Outreik of the said souldiers

Edinburgh Thursday 21 February 1695

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Act John Irvin for the Toune of Dumfrees

Anent a Supplication given in to the Lords of his Majesties privy Councill be John Irvine of Drumcoltrane in name of the toun of Drumfrees Shewing That quher the petitioner did present to Captaine Campbell on of Coll Douglas his Captaines two suficient souldiers in name of the said toune for the last Levie who secured them in the prisone of Dumfrees till he should Call for them and grant recept And true it is that the petitioners Could not obtaine the said recept till the petitioners brought the said Captaine to his Coll who gave him assurance that he hade received them and quherupon the said Coll Granted his recept as the samen thertwith produced would testifie And being informed that ther Lordships upon ane misrepresentatione that the petitioners were deficient and hade not delyvered ther souldiers in due time)2 have fyned the petitioners in four hundred merks nothwithstanding that the petitioner were never deficient Bot most ready to Contribute their outmost endeavors for the present government, as ane instrument under the hand of John Herries nottar publict delyvered to the said Coll Douglas would testifie And Therfore Humbly Supplicating the saids Lords to the effect aftermentioned The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill Haveing Considered this petition given in to them be the above John Irving with Coll Douglas his recept or discharge mentioned therin and produced therwith They hereby Exoner the petitioner and the toune of Dumfrees of the above four hundred merks of fyne for alledged deficiencie And sustaines the Collonells Discharge for the two Souldiers and Discharges any persone to trouble or mollest them for ther deficiency in the Outreik of the said souldiers

1. NRS, PC2/25, 186r-186v.

2. Opening bracket missing.

1. NRS, PC2/25, 186r-186v.

2. Opening bracket missing.

Act, 21 February 1695, Edinburgh

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Act Jean Durhame

The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill be Jean Durhame spouse to John Foubster They heirby appoint the said John Foubster instantly to delyver the petitioners Cloathes to her, or to delyver to the baillies of the Cannogate the keyes of the said John his dwalling house and of the Chists or trunks wher these Cloaths are to the effect the same may be taken out and Delyvered to her quherin if he faillie being requyred appoints the baillies of the Cannogate Immediatly herafter to make open and patent the doors of his said house and to break open the Chists or trunks wher the petitioners Cloathes may be and to take out and delyver the same to her.

Edinburgh Thursday 21 February 1695

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Act Jean Durhame

The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill be Jean Durhame spouse to John Foubster They heirby appoint the said John Foubster instantly to delyver the petitioners Cloathes to her, or to delyver to the baillies of the Cannogate the keyes of the said John his dwalling house and of the Chists or trunks wher these Cloaths are to the effect the same may be taken out and Delyvered to her quherin if he faillie being requyred appoints the baillies of the Cannogate Immediatly herafter to make open and patent the doors of his said house and to break open the Chists or trunks wher the petitioners Cloathes may be and to take out and delyver the same to her.

1. NRS, PC2/25, 185v-186r.

1. NRS, PC2/25, 185v-186r.

Act, 21 February 1695, Edinburgh

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Act Captain Campbell

Anent the Petition given in to the Lords of his Majesties privy Councill be Alexander Campbell Captain in the Lord Lornes regiment Shewing That wher being come over for recruits The petitioner seased upon one John Mulleon in Creiff in the Earle of Pearths bounds as a vagabound without observing the formality of takeing the shireffs Warrand, But haveing put him in Custody, So Soon as the petitioner understood that he should have had the shireffs warrand the petitioner dismissed him freely And then the man did freely take one with one Captain Meinzies in Coll Hills regiment as ane Certificat from the magistrats of Linlithgow lying in the Clerks hands would testifie, notwithstanding quherof and the petitioner truely dissmissed the man and he freely took on again as so is, yet it pleased the Lords of the Committie to Commit the petitioner prisoner untill he should produce him albeit it be manifast that the petitioner did abandon him and he disposed upon himself before any Citatione was given the petitioner And seing it appears hard that a Captain in his Majesties Service doeing all he can for recruites should be so sumarly Comitted and that the petitioner is Content to find suficient baill either to reproduce him betwixt and a Certaine day or at that day to re-enter himself in prisone And Therfore Humbly Craveing the saids Lords In Consideration of this his ingenious accompt and of the free and fair offer that the petitioner make, and that he humbly conceived that his majesties service is some way concerned in this affair to ordaine the petitioner to be sett at Liberty upon his said offer of Cautione as the petition bears, The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill, Having Considered this petition given in to them be the above Alexander Campbell They herby give Order and warrand to the magistrats of Edinburgh and keeper of ther Tolbooth to sett the petitioner at Libertie furth therof He first giveing bond and finding suficient Caution acted in the books of privy Councill That he shall produce the person of John Mulleon before the Committie of privy Councill appointed anent Souldiers and recruits betwixt and the fourth day of march nixt to come under the penalty of ane hundred punds sterling money.

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Act Captain Campbell

Anent the Petition given in to the Lords of his Majesties privy Councill be Alexander Campbell Captain in the Lord Lornes regiment Shewing That wher being come over for recruits The petitioner seased upon one John Mulleon in Creiff in the Earle of Pearths bounds as a vagabound without observing the formality of takeing the shireffs Warrand, But haveing put him in Custody, So Soon as the petitioner understood that he should have had the shireffs warrand the petitioner dismissed him freely And then the man did freely take one with one Captain Meinzies in Coll Hills regiment as ane Certificat from the magistrats of Linlithgow lying in the Clerks hands would testifie, notwithstanding quherof and the petitioner truely dissmissed the man and he freely took on again as so is, yet it pleased the Lords of the Committie to Commit the petitioner prisoner untill he should produce him albeit it be manifast that the petitioner did abandon him and he disposed upon himself before any Citatione was given the petitioner And seing it appears hard that a Captain in his Majesties Service doeing all he can for recruites should be so sumarly Comitted and that the petitioner is Content to find suficient baill either to reproduce him betwixt and a Certaine day or at that day to re-enter himself in prisone And Therfore Humbly Craveing the saids Lords In Consideration of this his ingenious accompt and of the free and fair offer that the petitioner make, and that he humbly conceived that his majesties service is some way concerned in this affair to ordaine the petitioner to be sett at Liberty upon his said offer of Cautione as the petition bears, The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill, Having Considered this petition given in to them be the above Alexander Campbell They herby give Order and warrand to the magistrats of Edinburgh and keeper of ther Tolbooth to sett the petitioner at Libertie furth therof He first giveing bond and finding suficient Caution acted in the books of privy Councill That he shall produce the person of John Mulleon before the Committie of privy Councill appointed anent Souldiers and recruits betwixt and the fourth day of march nixt to come under the penalty of ane hundred punds sterling money.

1. NRS, PC2/25, 185r-185v.

1. NRS, PC2/25, 185r-185v.

Warrant, 21 February 1695, Edinburgh

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Warrand for Giveing up Bartlemans bond

The Which Day the Lord Hatton haveing Reported to the Lords of their Majesties privy Councill That ther Lordships haveing Remitted to him to examine how the money Collected for releiving of Archibald Bartleman and James Kay from ther Slavery with the turks was applyed, And that he having examined the matter; Does Find that the money was rightly applyed, The saids Lords Doe heirby give order and warrand to their Clerks to give up to John Bartleman in Keirhill the bond granted to him as principall and William Reid fermorer for applying of the saids Collectiones to the effect forsaid That the same may be cancelled or destroyed be them at ther pleasure.

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Warrand for Giveing up Bartlemans bond

The Which Day the Lord Hatton haveing Reported to the Lords of their Majesties privy Councill That ther Lordships haveing Remitted to him to examine how the money Collected for releiving of Archibald Bartleman and James Kay from ther Slavery with the turks was applyed, And that he having examined the matter; Does Find that the money was rightly applyed, The saids Lords Doe heirby give order and warrand to their Clerks to give up to John Bartleman in Keirhill the bond granted to him as principall and William Reid fermorer for applying of the saids Collectiones to the effect forsaid That the same may be cancelled or destroyed be them at ther pleasure.

1. NRS, PC2/25, 185r.

1. NRS, PC2/25, 185r.

Act, 21 February 1695, Edinburgh

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Act Gordon of Braikley

Anent the petition given in to the Lords of his Majesties privy Councill be John Gordon of Braikley Shewing That quher the petitioner have sufered great Loss upon the accompt of his Zeall for the present government be the highland armie who not only burnt his house and lands but Caried away all the plenishing of the petitioners wholl intrest which incapacitate him for some time from paying his Just debts, (albeit his fortune is thrie times greater then any burden that affects the samen) which occasioned most of his Creditors to doe Dilligences against his estate and persone and now the petitioner is in the Tolbooth of Montross almost in a Sterving Conditione Occasioned by reasone that his Creditors have areisted the rents and duties payable be his tenants so that the tenents refuse to give the petitioner one six pence to intertaine him although all his Creditors are willing some thing should be allowed the petitioner for that end, But would have it modified be the saids Lords least ther voluntar Concensiones should prejudice their rights, and the petitioners case being much to be pitied as a man given to Malancholly who was at present unfitt to goe about his oun affairs both by reasone of his indisposition of mind and Confynment of body, seing that the petitioners estate is notwithstanding of his Lordships much more then able to satisfie his debts It were ane act of Great Justice to allow the petitioner to be entertained out of his fortune and to evidence his willingness to satisfie his debts ther are severall writtes and goods Lying in the petitioners house at Braikley which will Contribute much for his Creditors payment The petitioner is Content they be taken and preserved for those who have right therto And Therfore humbly Craveing the saids Lords would be pleased to allow the petitioner at least twelue pence a day for his intertainement so long as he stayes in prisone to be payed by those who intromitt with his estate Especially seing non of his Creditors doe oppose and ther is subject eneough to satisifie ther debts and likewayes to Grant warrand to the shireff or Comissar of Aberdein or his deputs to make open the2 doors and Locks of the said house and to Inventar and take in Custody his goods and wrytes who will be Comptable for them to any haveing intrest as the petitione bears. The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill haveing Considered the above petitione given in to them be the above John Gordon of Brackly, They heirby allow the petitioner ane aliement of twelue shilling scots per diem Comensing from the date heirof for his intertainment so long as he Continues in prison And Decerns and Ordaines Alexander Ker of Meny who intromitts with the petitioners estate to make payment of the same, And Ordaines letters of horning on six dayes and others needfull to be direct heiron in forme as effeirs.

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Act Gordon of Braikley

Anent the petition given in to the Lords of his Majesties privy Councill be John Gordon of Braikley Shewing That quher the petitioner have sufered great Loss upon the accompt of his Zeall for the present government be the highland armie who not only burnt his house and lands but Caried away all the plenishing of the petitioners wholl intrest which incapacitate him for some time from paying his Just debts, (albeit his fortune is thrie times greater then any burden that affects the samen) which occasioned most of his Creditors to doe Dilligences against his estate and persone and now the petitioner is in the Tolbooth of Montross almost in a Sterving Conditione Occasioned by reasone that his Creditors have areisted the rents and duties payable be his tenants so that the tenents refuse to give the petitioner one six pence to intertaine him although all his Creditors are willing some thing should be allowed the petitioner for that end, But would have it modified be the saids Lords least ther voluntar Concensiones should prejudice their rights, and the petitioners case being much to be pitied as a man given to Malancholly who was at present unfitt to goe about his oun affairs both by reasone of his indisposition of mind and Confynment of body, seing that the petitioners estate is notwithstanding of his Lordships much more then able to satisfie his debts It were ane act of Great Justice to allow the petitioner to be entertained out of his fortune and to evidence his willingness to satisfie his debts ther are severall writtes and goods Lying in the petitioners house at Braikley which will Contribute much for his Creditors payment The petitioner is Content they be taken and preserved for those who have right therto And Therfore humbly Craveing the saids Lords would be pleased to allow the petitioner at least twelue pence a day for his intertainement so long as he stayes in prisone to be payed by those who intromitt with his estate Especially seing non of his Creditors doe oppose and ther is subject eneough to satisifie ther debts and likewayes to Grant warrand to the shireff or Comissar of Aberdein or his deputs to make open the2 doors and Locks of the said house and to Inventar and take in Custody his goods and wrytes who will be Comptable for them to any haveing intrest as the petitione bears. The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill haveing Considered the above petitione given in to them be the above John Gordon of Brackly, They heirby allow the petitioner ane aliement of twelue shilling scots per diem Comensing from the date heirof for his intertainment so long as he Continues in prison And Decerns and Ordaines Alexander Ker of Meny who intromitts with the petitioners estate to make payment of the same, And Ordaines letters of horning on six dayes and others needfull to be direct heiron in forme as effeirs.

1. NRS, PC2/25, 184r-185r.

2. Insertion.

1. NRS, PC2/25, 184r-185r.

2. Insertion.

Act, 21 February 1695, Edinburgh

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Act The heritors of Woodhouse

Anent the petitione given in to the Lords of his majesties privy Councill be James Deans of Woodhouslie and Alexander Bothwell of Glencorss Sir John Clerk of Peny Cook heritors of the paroch of Woodhouslie alias Glencorss for themselves and in name of their tenants Shewing That quher in obedience to ther majesties proclamation anent the Levieing of men for ther Majesties Service, The tenents of the said paroch did furnish ane man and keep him above four moneths at a daill of Charges against the mustering day Which was upon the twentie two day of May last in Burnsfeild Links near Edinburgh quher the said man was then delyvered to Robert Thomsone under Clerk of the shirefdome who gave ane recept of him to one of the fermers who came allongst with him which recept is in the Captains name and is wryten with the said Robert Thomsons oun hand as he does not deny, and that the man was truely delyvered to him, But so it is tha the recept is unsubscryved, and which was the Ignorance of the receiver to take it so But it could be proven be the said Robert Thomsone and many others that the man was truely delyvered and received off the tenants hands, and it is probable the man was put away amongst the detatched partie that was then sent to Flanders It was Therfore humbly conceaved that the petitioners hade done all the dilligence Requyred in obedience to ther Majesties proclamatione yet notwithstanding they are informed That they are fyned be the saids Lords for not giving obedience to the said proclamation in the soume of two hundred merks And Therfore Humbly Craveing the saids Lords would be pleased to take their case to Consideratione and to Discharge the said fyne since they did truely furnish the said man and keeped him above four moneths against the mustureing day upon their oun expences and gave him Eighty punds scots for his hyre and actually Delyvered him as the said receipt tho unsubscryved therwith produced would testifie and which they offered to prove if need were as the said petition bears Which being upon the fifth of February instant read in presence of the saids Lords They Remitted to the Committie appointed anent Souldiers and diserters to Consider and receive the petitioners probatione and in the mean tyme Discharged all executione against the petitioners for the fyne and not puting out the man Conforme to which referrence the Committie haveing mett and taken the depositiones of Sundrie famous witnesses, And The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill having this day Considered the saids depositiones They Find It Sufficiently proven that ther were thrie sufficient men delyvered for Sir John Clerk Woodhouslie and Glencorss and Received by Coll Douglas And Therfore They hereby Discharge the petitioners of any fyne alledged Imposed upon them for not furnishing of the man as in the petition And Declairs them free therof.

Edinburgh Thursday 21 February 1695

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Act The heritors of Woodhouse

Anent the petitione given in to the Lords of his majesties privy Councill be James Deans of Woodhouslie and Alexander Bothwell of Glencorss Sir John Clerk of Peny Cook heritors of the paroch of Woodhouslie alias Glencorss for themselves and in name of their tenants Shewing That quher in obedience to ther majesties proclamation anent the Levieing of men for ther Majesties Service, The tenents of the said paroch did furnish ane man and keep him above four moneths at a daill of Charges against the mustering day Which was upon the twentie two day of May last in Burnsfeild Links near Edinburgh quher the said man was then delyvered to Robert Thomsone under Clerk of the shirefdome who gave ane recept of him to one of the fermers who came allongst with him which recept is in the Captains name and is wryten with the said Robert Thomsons oun hand as he does not deny, and that the man was truely delyvered to him, But so it is tha the recept is unsubscryved, and which was the Ignorance of the receiver to take it so But it could be proven be the said Robert Thomsone and many others that the man was truely delyvered and received off the tenants hands, and it is probable the man was put away amongst the detatched partie that was then sent to Flanders It was Therfore humbly conceaved that the petitioners hade done all the dilligence Requyred in obedience to ther Majesties proclamatione yet notwithstanding they are informed That they are fyned be the saids Lords for not giving obedience to the said proclamation in the soume of two hundred merks And Therfore Humbly Craveing the saids Lords would be pleased to take their case to Consideratione and to Discharge the said fyne since they did truely furnish the said man and keeped him above four moneths against the mustureing day upon their oun expences and gave him Eighty punds scots for his hyre and actually Delyvered him as the said receipt tho unsubscryved therwith produced would testifie and which they offered to prove if need were as the said petition bears Which being upon the fifth of February instant read in presence of the saids Lords They Remitted to the Committie appointed anent Souldiers and diserters to Consider and receive the petitioners probatione and in the mean tyme Discharged all executione against the petitioners for the fyne and not puting out the man Conforme to which referrence the Committie haveing mett and taken the depositiones of Sundrie famous witnesses, And The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill having this day Considered the saids depositiones They Find It Sufficiently proven that ther were thrie sufficient men delyvered for Sir John Clerk Woodhouslie and Glencorss and Received by Coll Douglas And Therfore They hereby Discharge the petitioners of any fyne alledged Imposed upon them for not furnishing of the man as in the petition And Declairs them free therof.

1. NRS, PC2/25, 183r-184r.

1. NRS, PC2/25, 183r-184r.

Sederunt, 21 February 1695, Edinburgh

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Sederunt

Earl of Anandale pres; Earl of Melvill p: seall; Earl of Cassills; Earl of Leven; Earl of Forfar; Earl of Kintoir; Earl of Brodalbine; Lord Murray; Viscount Tarbat; Lord Raith; Lord Carmicheall; Lord Advocat; Lord Hattone; Mr Fr: Montgomery; Laird of Grant; Laird of Stivensone; Sir John Hall

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Sederunt

Earl of Anandale pres; Earl of Melvill p: seall; Earl of Cassills; Earl of Leven; Earl of Forfar; Earl of Kintoir; Earl of Brodalbine; Lord Murray; Viscount Tarbat; Lord Raith; Lord Carmicheall; Lord Advocat; Lord Hattone; Mr Fr: Montgomery; Laird of Grant; Laird of Stivensone; Sir John Hall

1. NRS, PC2/25, 183r.

2. NRS, PC2/25, 183r.

1. NRS, PC2/25, 183r.

2. NRS, PC2/25, 183r.

Act, 21 February 1695, Edinburgh

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At Edinburgh the tuentie first day of February Jaj vjc nynty and five years

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Act Mr Jon Wilsone

Anent the petitione given in to the Lords of his majesties privy Councill by Master John Wilsone late minister at Kirkwall Shewing that where upon some litle disordor that fell out at Kirkwall To which I had noe accessione and for some words alleadged to have been spoken by me which the petitioner was sure was free of ill designe He was by the said Lords sentance not only depryved of his ministrie at Kirkwall but banished to Zetland dureing the said Lords pleasure in September Last his conditione of his familey with the hardship of winter then comeing on it pleased the said Lords to dispence with his goeing thether till march next and seeing that the distress of his familey by the sickness of his wyfe and his other straits is truely since grown exceedingly and its well knowen in the place with what quietness and submissione he hes he haved since the said Lords their sentance And lastly that the petitioner cannot expect passage to Zetland untill May at soonest and then very uncertaine and hazardous because of Privateers and that in truceth when he is there he knows not possibly how to live And therfore humbly Craveing the said Lords in Compassione to him and his poor familey to have reguard to his depryved indigent Conditione and to remitt the foresaid sentance of transporting him to Zetland and since He neither can bear it nor can he think but his circumstances will procure the said Lords their Consideratione as the said petitione bears
The Lords of his majesties privy Councill haveing considered the foresaid petitione given in to them by the said Master John Wilsone They Hereby take of the petitioners Banishment and declairs him free of the same and confyns him to the Islands of Orknay and ordaines Him to find sufficient Cautione before the Stueart of Orknay and Zetland or his deputs That He shall remaine Confyned within the said islands and not goe without the bounds of the same and that He shall live peaceably under and with all submissione to the present Goverment of his majestie King William and that He shall not act consult nor contryve anything in prejudice thereof nor converse with any Rebells under the penalty of ane thousand merks scots money in Case he shall transgress in any part of the premisses

At Edinburgh the tuentie first day of February Jaj vjc nynty and five years

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Act Mr Jon Wilsone

Anent the petitione given in to the Lords of his majesties privy Councill by Master John Wilsone late minister at Kirkwall Shewing that where upon some litle disordor that fell out at Kirkwall To which I had noe accessione and for some words alleadged to have been spoken by me which the petitioner was sure was free of ill designe He was by the said Lords sentance not only depryved of his ministrie at Kirkwall but banished to Zetland dureing the said Lords pleasure in September Last his conditione of his familey with the hardship of winter then comeing on it pleased the said Lords to dispence with his goeing thether till march next and seeing that the distress of his familey by the sickness of his wyfe and his other straits is truely since grown exceedingly and its well knowen in the place with what quietness and submissione he hes he haved since the said Lords their sentance And lastly that the petitioner cannot expect passage to Zetland untill May at soonest and then very uncertaine and hazardous because of Privateers and that in truceth when he is there he knows not possibly how to live And therfore humbly Craveing the said Lords in Compassione to him and his poor familey to have reguard to his depryved indigent Conditione and to remitt the foresaid sentance of transporting him to Zetland and since He neither can bear it nor can he think but his circumstances will procure the said Lords their Consideratione as the said petitione bears
The Lords of his majesties privy Councill haveing considered the foresaid petitione given in to them by the said Master John Wilsone They Hereby take of the petitioners Banishment and declairs him free of the same and confyns him to the Islands of Orknay and ordaines Him to find sufficient Cautione before the Stueart of Orknay and Zetland or his deputs That He shall remaine Confyned within the said islands and not goe without the bounds of the same and that He shall live peaceably under and with all submissione to the present Goverment of his majestie King William and that He shall not act consult nor contryve anything in prejudice thereof nor converse with any Rebells under the penalty of ane thousand merks scots money in Case he shall transgress in any part of the premisses

1. NRS, PC1/50, 130-1.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 130-1.

Procedure, 21 February 1695, Edinburgh

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At Edinburgh the tuentie first day of February Jaj vjc nynty and five years

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Procedure

Comittie anent a popish meeting

The Lord Advocat haveing reported That ther was a publick popish meeting keept in Cannongate upon the last Lords day Whereupon Master David Fairfoul the Preist James Deanton James Moreis and John Wilsone of Spango were Committed Prisoners to the Cannongate tolbooth and the meeting being dissipat some others were put under baile and the Lord Advocat Haveing given in a list to the Clerks of Councill of the persones who were present at the meeting The Councill give ordor and warrand to the Captain or other commanding officer of the toune guard of Edinburgh To cause convey under a sufficient Guard from the Tolbooth of Canongate to the tolbooth of Edinburgh the persones of the said Master David Fairfoull James Deanton James Mories and John Wilsone there to remaine till farder ordor and appoynts the magistrats of the Cannongate to delyver them and the magistrats of Edinburgh to receive them And recomends to the Earle of Melvill Lord privie seale the Earle of Leven and Murray Lord Carmichaell and the Laird of Grant to examine this matter and to call for such of the persones in the List given in by his Majesties Advocat as they shall think fitt With power to the Comittee To committ such of them prisioners as they shall find just and to report their oppinione in this matter to the Councill three a quorum to meet tomorrow at ten in the forenoone

At Edinburgh the tuentie first day of February Jaj vjc nynty and five years

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Procedure

Comittie anent a popish meeting

The Lord Advocat haveing reported That ther was a publick popish meeting keept in Cannongate upon the last Lords day Whereupon Master David Fairfoul the Preist James Deanton James Moreis and John Wilsone of Spango were Committed Prisoners to the Cannongate tolbooth and the meeting being dissipat some others were put under baile and the Lord Advocat Haveing given in a list to the Clerks of Councill of the persones who were present at the meeting The Councill give ordor and warrand to the Captain or other commanding officer of the toune guard of Edinburgh To cause convey under a sufficient Guard from the Tolbooth of Canongate to the tolbooth of Edinburgh the persones of the said Master David Fairfoull James Deanton James Mories and John Wilsone there to remaine till farder ordor and appoynts the magistrats of the Cannongate to delyver them and the magistrats of Edinburgh to receive them And recomends to the Earle of Melvill Lord privie seale the Earle of Leven and Murray Lord Carmichaell and the Laird of Grant to examine this matter and to call for such of the persones in the List given in by his Majesties Advocat as they shall think fitt With power to the Comittee To committ such of them prisioners as they shall find just and to report their oppinione in this matter to the Councill three a quorum to meet tomorrow at ten in the forenoone

1. NRS, PC1/50, 130.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 130.

Sederunt, 21 February 1695, Edinburgh

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At Edinburgh the tuentie first day of February Jaj vjc nynty and five years1

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Sederunt

Earl of Annandale p; Earl of Melvill ps; Earl of Cassills; Earl of Leven; Earl of Forfar; Earl of Kintore; Earl of Breadalbane; Lord Murray; Viscount Tarbat; Lord Raith; Lord Carmichaell; Lord Advocat; Lord Hattoune; Mr Fran Montgomrie; Laird of Grant; Laird of Stevensone; Sir John Hall

At Edinburgh the tuentie first day of February Jaj vjc nynty and five years1

A1695/2/242

Sederunt

Earl of Annandale p; Earl of Melvill ps; Earl of Cassills; Earl of Leven; Earl of Forfar; Earl of Kintore; Earl of Breadalbane; Lord Murray; Viscount Tarbat; Lord Raith; Lord Carmichaell; Lord Advocat; Lord Hattoune; Mr Fran Montgomrie; Laird of Grant; Laird of Stevensone; Sir John Hall

1. NRS, PC1/50, 129.

2. NRS, PC1/50, 130.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 129.

2. NRS, PC1/50, 130.