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Warrant, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Warrant

Warrand For Transporting John Mcfarlane to Edinburgh

The Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Doe heirby Recommend to Mr Frances Montgomerie Governor of the Castle of Dumbarton one of their oune number To Cause transport under a sufficient guaird from the said Castle to the tolbooth of Edinburgh the persone of John McFarlane, presently prisoner in the said Castle And appoints the magistrats of Edinburgh and Keeper of their tolbooth to receave and detaine the said John Mcfarlane prisoner till furder order And Recommends to the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Thesaury to Cause make payment to the said John Mcfarlane of the soume of six shilling scotts per diem for his aliment after he shall Come to the tolbooth of Edinburgh during his Imprisonment

Att Edinburgh the seventh day of Maj Jaj vjc nyntie six years

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Warrant

Warrand For Transporting John Mcfarlane to Edinburgh

The Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Doe heirby Recommend to Mr Frances Montgomerie Governor of the Castle of Dumbarton one of their oune number To Cause transport under a sufficient guaird from the said Castle to the tolbooth of Edinburgh the persone of John McFarlane, presently prisoner in the said Castle And appoints the magistrats of Edinburgh and Keeper of their tolbooth to receave and detaine the said John Mcfarlane prisoner till furder order And Recommends to the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Thesaury to Cause make payment to the said John Mcfarlane of the soume of six shilling scotts per diem for his aliment after he shall Come to the tolbooth of Edinburgh during his Imprisonment

1. NRS, PC1/50, 515-16.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 515-16.

Act, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Act

Safe Conduct To Kilmanan

The Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Finding it expedient that Archbald Grhame of Kilmannan and Hugh Called Mcgrigor his servant Compear before them for to give Informatione In Certain particulars Concerning the Government And these persons requyring for their security safe Conduct and protection for their free Coming and going The saids Lords doe heirby Grant to the said Archbald Grhame of Kilmannan and his said servant safe Conduct and protection from the day and date heirof For their free Coming and appearing before the saids Lords of Councell or the Committie to be by them appointed for that effect betuixt and the second day of June nixt to Come And for and during their attendance untill they be dismissed And for Eight dayes for their returning after they shall be dismissed. And heirby discharge all officers of the law or other persons whatsoever to trouble or molest the persons of the said Kilmannan or his servant for any Cause Civill or Criminall preceeding the date heirof during the space forsaid in any sort as they will be ansuerable out their highest perill sic subscribitur Tueeddall cancel: Melvill Queensberry Southerland Morton Leven Annandale Poluarth Beilhaven James Steuart W Anstruther F: Montgomery Ludovick Grant Arc: Murray Robert Sinclar

Att Edinburgh the seventh day of Maj Jaj vjc nyntie six years

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Act

Safe Conduct To Kilmanan

The Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Finding it expedient that Archbald Grhame of Kilmannan and Hugh Called Mcgrigor his servant Compear before them for to give Informatione In Certain particulars Concerning the Government And these persons requyring for their security safe Conduct and protection for their free Coming and going The saids Lords doe heirby Grant to the said Archbald Grhame of Kilmannan and his said servant safe Conduct and protection from the day and date heirof For their free Coming and appearing before the saids Lords of Councell or the Committie to be by them appointed for that effect betuixt and the second day of June nixt to Come And for and during their attendance untill they be dismissed And for Eight dayes for their returning after they shall be dismissed. And heirby discharge all officers of the law or other persons whatsoever to trouble or molest the persons of the said Kilmannan or his servant for any Cause Civill or Criminall preceeding the date heirof during the space forsaid in any sort as they will be ansuerable out their highest perill sic subscribitur Tueeddall cancel: Melvill Queensberry Southerland Morton Leven Annandale Poluarth Beilhaven James Steuart W Anstruther F: Montgomery Ludovick Grant Arc: Murray Robert Sinclar

1. NRS, PC1/50, 515.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 515.

Act, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Act

Act as to The Difficulties Anent the pole

The Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Having heard the Difficulties proposed by some Collectors of the polemoney Anent the Ingathering of the same read in their presence off which Difficulties the tenor folloues primo How they shall stress the deficients for payment since the Act of parliament appoints the sentence of the Commissioners or the Inferior Judge wher they Live to proceed and what shall be done as to remote Isles and Highlands wher the Inhabitants and Heretors have neither Listed nor payed Secundo If souldiers be Imployed who shall pay these souldiers their deficient money since the act of parliament alloues all expences to Come off the pole itself Tertio many deficients uould now pay in their single pole upon a full discharge but uill not pay a farthing uithout it And the Commissioners uill not warrand the Collector to accept single pole nor Can the Collector uithout warrand accept it now when the quadruple are Incurred Quarto what shall be done for getting up the pole of these that are dead since they were Listed or are Insolvent or have fled the shire Quinto some Collectors Crave horning against the deficients Sexto some Collectors report that the Act of parliament allouing only poynding or Imprisonment for deficiency of the pole some are so poor that they have nothing to be poynded but the Cloaths and they uould starve in prison and they are not Capable to be quartered upon Septimo The Collector of Drumfreis Represents2 That he Can gett neither Lists of pole nor polemoney through not meeting of these concerned octavo some Collectors represent that much of the pole is in Copper money and Clipped fourteens And when these fourteens were offered to the Generall Receavers They refuised them These who have quantaties of the Copper money Crave it may be taken from them in the shire or they alloued transport money for bringing it to Edinburgh nono The Shirreff of the Mearns pleads passionatly for a delay of their whyte fishers pole For they are begging through the Countrey this winter and Spring and have not to Cover their nakednes Decimo severall Collectors represent that they have payed in almost all they have receaved and ansuered the forces in the Countrey the precepts drauen on them for the pole undecimo The Collectors of Invernes and Aberdeen shires seems to Give the best accompt of their dilligence as their Letters Bears The Collector of Invernes hes payed in all the pole Except one hundred and fiftie pounds scotts which he Craves to be alloued for his extraordinary pains He Gives in a List of some highlanders who have not Listed themselves nor payed their pole and some Renunciations of the title of Gentlemen given in by others Duodecimo It is Informed that some of the west Countrey people plead to be free of their pole for their Late Rendivouzing and appearing in armes for the Government The Saids Lords upon reading of the forsaids Difficulties appointed Sir Gilbert Eliot to give in ansuers in wryting to each particular Difficulty from the former proceedings in Councell anent the said pole money And to present the same to the Councell against their nixt meeting And the said Sir Gilbert Eliot having drauen up ansuers to the saids Difficulties Did this day offer the same to the Councell wherof the tenor Folloues To the First by the Act of parliament any of the Commissioners of supplie are to pronunce sentence or any other Inferior Judge is alloued to Give sentence wherupon poynding or Imprisonment may proceed To the second by the Last proclamation of Councell The paroch Collectors and Collectors of supplie are to Give up Lists of the Deficients to the shirreffs and their deputes at the dayes therin appointed And the shirreffs or other deputs are to stress the deficients by poynding or Imprisonment for the quadruples Conform to the Act of parliament And this is to be done in the Isles and other highland shires as uell as elsewher And they are alloued souldiers for their assistance in the executione of their Decreits And the triples will be sufficient to defray the souldiers expences and affoord a Competent allouance to the shirreff for his paines after he hes Compted for the single pole of such deficients to the Thesaury To the Third After the dayes mentioned in the proclamatione are elapsed The shirrefis to be Comptable for the pole of all who are then deficient And to exact the quadruples from them and to be Comptable in the terms of the proclamatione And the Collectors are not further Concerned To the Fourth For such as are Insolvent or have fled the shire The Collectors are not further ansuerable but to Give them up as deficients If these who have fled have Left noe effects to the value of their pole And if they have Left effects The shirreff is to poynd for the quadruples And as to these who are dead since they were Listed they Cannot be very Numerous But even as to them if the dayes of the proclamatione were elapsed before their Death The shirreffs may take Decreits against their executors for the quadruples as well as against themselves for Deficiency if they had been alyve To the Fifth The Act of parliament and proclamations of Councell allouing poynding and summar apprysing of the goods poynded for the pole money upon a sentence of the Commissioners of supplie or any other Judge Letters and superfluous To the sixth For such as Live upon charity they are not Lyable to a pole And if they be householders It is not possible but they must have other goods then wearing Cloaths to be poynded And if they Earn wages The master must be Lyable for their pole out of their fee or wages And no quartering is to be alloued in any caise To the seventh The Collector of Drumfreis as well as all the Collectors of Scotland are by the former warrands of Councell alloued Letters of Horning to Charge the Commissioners to meet if need beis and to Charge the Elders of every paroch and householders to Give up the Lists of their severall paroches and families with3 their pole so that if he make use of thir Letters Ther is noe Ground for his Complaint And farder if need beis Letters may be raised on the Act of parliament Charging masters to Give up the names of their tennents uith the pole money payable by them To the Eight The Collectors are obleidged for their sallaries to pay in the polemoney to the Generall Receavers att Edinburgh as uell as the Collectors of Supplie are obleidged to pay in the Cess And by former orders of Councell the Collectors of Supplie are alloued to receave in from the paroch Collectors what Clipped money they had receaved before the proclamatione of Councill Discharging the same They giving their oath before any of the Commissioners of supplie that they had receaved these Individuall peices of money before the proclamatione was published in their shire so that ther Can be no transport money alloued for Carrying the pole to Edinburgh nor is their any difficultie upon the account of Clipped money To the Nynth by a former order of Councell the whyte fishers of the Mearns are declared not to be Lyable for the pole as seamen but for a single pole which such as Imployed them uere to advance for them and detaine out of their wages when they should be Imployed To the Tenth and Eleventh, what the Collectors hes payed in of the pole money aither to the Generall Receavers themselves or upon their precepts to the forces uill exoner them sufficiently pro tanto But nothing is to be alloued for extraordinary pains Ther being tuo per Cent alloued to the Collectors of supplie upon that account by the Last proclamatione of Councell besyds the tuo per Cent alloued them by the first proclamation and they have seven per Cent of all they should Collect which hath been aither omitted by the paroch Collectors or wherto any persone uas Lyable for being wronge Classed To the Tuelvth neither the Act of parliament nor proclamations of Councell Doe allow any persons to be exonered of their pole upon their rendivouzing or appearing in Armes upon the Late threatned Invasione The saids Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Having this day Considered the forsaids Difficulties and ansuers made therto They Doe heirby approve of the above ansuers And alloues Coppies therof to be transmitted to such shires as his Majesties Advocat shall think fitt And appoints John Andersone as the sollicitors servant to transmitt the same to the severall shires

Att Edinburgh the seventh day of Maj Jaj vjc nyntie six years

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Act

Act as to The Difficulties Anent the pole

The Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Having heard the Difficulties proposed by some Collectors of the polemoney Anent the Ingathering of the same read in their presence off which Difficulties the tenor folloues primo How they shall stress the deficients for payment since the Act of parliament appoints the sentence of the Commissioners or the Inferior Judge wher they Live to proceed and what shall be done as to remote Isles and Highlands wher the Inhabitants and Heretors have neither Listed nor payed Secundo If souldiers be Imployed who shall pay these souldiers their deficient money since the act of parliament alloues all expences to Come off the pole itself Tertio many deficients uould now pay in their single pole upon a full discharge but uill not pay a farthing uithout it And the Commissioners uill not warrand the Collector to accept single pole nor Can the Collector uithout warrand accept it now when the quadruple are Incurred Quarto what shall be done for getting up the pole of these that are dead since they were Listed or are Insolvent or have fled the shire Quinto some Collectors Crave horning against the deficients Sexto some Collectors report that the Act of parliament allouing only poynding or Imprisonment for deficiency of the pole some are so poor that they have nothing to be poynded but the Cloaths and they uould starve in prison and they are not Capable to be quartered upon Septimo The Collector of Drumfreis Represents2 That he Can gett neither Lists of pole nor polemoney through not meeting of these concerned octavo some Collectors represent that much of the pole is in Copper money and Clipped fourteens And when these fourteens were offered to the Generall Receavers They refuised them These who have quantaties of the Copper money Crave it may be taken from them in the shire or they alloued transport money for bringing it to Edinburgh nono The Shirreff of the Mearns pleads passionatly for a delay of their whyte fishers pole For they are begging through the Countrey this winter and Spring and have not to Cover their nakednes Decimo severall Collectors represent that they have payed in almost all they have receaved and ansuered the forces in the Countrey the precepts drauen on them for the pole undecimo The Collectors of Invernes and Aberdeen shires seems to Give the best accompt of their dilligence as their Letters Bears The Collector of Invernes hes payed in all the pole Except one hundred and fiftie pounds scotts which he Craves to be alloued for his extraordinary pains He Gives in a List of some highlanders who have not Listed themselves nor payed their pole and some Renunciations of the title of Gentlemen given in by others Duodecimo It is Informed that some of the west Countrey people plead to be free of their pole for their Late Rendivouzing and appearing in armes for the Government The Saids Lords upon reading of the forsaids Difficulties appointed Sir Gilbert Eliot to give in ansuers in wryting to each particular Difficulty from the former proceedings in Councell anent the said pole money And to present the same to the Councell against their nixt meeting And the said Sir Gilbert Eliot having drauen up ansuers to the saids Difficulties Did this day offer the same to the Councell wherof the tenor Folloues To the First by the Act of parliament any of the Commissioners of supplie are to pronunce sentence or any other Inferior Judge is alloued to Give sentence wherupon poynding or Imprisonment may proceed To the second by the Last proclamation of Councell The paroch Collectors and Collectors of supplie are to Give up Lists of the Deficients to the shirreffs and their deputes at the dayes therin appointed And the shirreffs or other deputs are to stress the deficients by poynding or Imprisonment for the quadruples Conform to the Act of parliament And this is to be done in the Isles and other highland shires as uell as elsewher And they are alloued souldiers for their assistance in the executione of their Decreits And the triples will be sufficient to defray the souldiers expences and affoord a Competent allouance to the shirreff for his paines after he hes Compted for the single pole of such deficients to the Thesaury To the Third After the dayes mentioned in the proclamatione are elapsed The shirrefis to be Comptable for the pole of all who are then deficient And to exact the quadruples from them and to be Comptable in the terms of the proclamatione And the Collectors are not further Concerned To the Fourth For such as are Insolvent or have fled the shire The Collectors are not further ansuerable but to Give them up as deficients If these who have fled have Left noe effects to the value of their pole And if they have Left effects The shirreff is to poynd for the quadruples And as to these who are dead since they were Listed they Cannot be very Numerous But even as to them if the dayes of the proclamatione were elapsed before their Death The shirreffs may take Decreits against their executors for the quadruples as well as against themselves for Deficiency if they had been alyve To the Fifth The Act of parliament and proclamations of Councell allouing poynding and summar apprysing of the goods poynded for the pole money upon a sentence of the Commissioners of supplie or any other Judge Letters and superfluous To the sixth For such as Live upon charity they are not Lyable to a pole And if they be householders It is not possible but they must have other goods then wearing Cloaths to be poynded And if they Earn wages The master must be Lyable for their pole out of their fee or wages And no quartering is to be alloued in any caise To the seventh The Collector of Drumfreis as well as all the Collectors of Scotland are by the former warrands of Councell alloued Letters of Horning to Charge the Commissioners to meet if need beis and to Charge the Elders of every paroch and householders to Give up the Lists of their severall paroches and families with3 their pole so that if he make use of thir Letters Ther is noe Ground for his Complaint And farder if need beis Letters may be raised on the Act of parliament Charging masters to Give up the names of their tennents uith the pole money payable by them To the Eight The Collectors are obleidged for their sallaries to pay in the polemoney to the Generall Receavers att Edinburgh as uell as the Collectors of Supplie are obleidged to pay in the Cess And by former orders of Councell the Collectors of Supplie are alloued to receave in from the paroch Collectors what Clipped money they had receaved before the proclamatione of Councill Discharging the same They giving their oath before any of the Commissioners of supplie that they had receaved these Individuall peices of money before the proclamatione was published in their shire so that ther Can be no transport money alloued for Carrying the pole to Edinburgh nor is their any difficultie upon the account of Clipped money To the Nynth by a former order of Councell the whyte fishers of the Mearns are declared not to be Lyable for the pole as seamen but for a single pole which such as Imployed them uere to advance for them and detaine out of their wages when they should be Imployed To the Tenth and Eleventh, what the Collectors hes payed in of the pole money aither to the Generall Receavers themselves or upon their precepts to the forces uill exoner them sufficiently pro tanto But nothing is to be alloued for extraordinary pains Ther being tuo per Cent alloued to the Collectors of supplie upon that account by the Last proclamatione of Councell besyds the tuo per Cent alloued them by the first proclamation and they have seven per Cent of all they should Collect which hath been aither omitted by the paroch Collectors or wherto any persone uas Lyable for being wronge Classed To the Tuelvth neither the Act of parliament nor proclamations of Councell Doe allow any persons to be exonered of their pole upon their rendivouzing or appearing in Armes upon the Late threatned Invasione The saids Lords of his Majesties privie Councell Having this day Considered the forsaids Difficulties and ansuers made therto They Doe heirby approve of the above ansuers And alloues Coppies therof to be transmitted to such shires as his Majesties Advocat shall think fitt And appoints John Andersone as the sollicitors servant to transmitt the same to the severall shires

1. NRS, PC1/50, 511-15.

2. The phrase ‘that much of the pole is in Copper money And Clipped Fourteens And when these Fourteens were offered to the Generall Receavers’ scored out here.

3. Insertion. The word ‘of’ scored out here.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 511-15.

2. The phrase ‘that much of the pole is in Copper money And Clipped Fourteens And when these Fourteens were offered to the Generall Receavers’ scored out here.

3. Insertion. The word ‘of’ scored out here.

Proclamation, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Proclamation

Proclamation for apprehending Sir George Barkley

The Follouing proclamation being read was votted approven and signed wherof the tenor follues
William by the Grace of God King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland defender of the faith To […] Macers of our privie Councell messengers at armes our shirreffs in that pairt conjunctlly and severally speciallie Constitut Greeting Forasmuchas Sir George Barcley Having Entered into a horrid and detestable Conspiracy uith diverse other wicked and traiterous persons to assassinat and murder our sacred persone Is not yet apprehended and brought to Justice But is supposed to have made his escape out of the kingdome of England (wher that execrable villany was to have been perpetrat) And to have fled to and taken his refuge In this our antient Kingdome And we being resolved to use all Indeavours to Bring such a Barbarous Traitor to Condegne punishment Doe therfore Requyre and Command all Magistrats and Ministers of our Law officers of our army and souldiers under our pay and all other the Good subjects of this our antient kingdom whatsoever to discover seiz upon take and apprehend the person of the said Sir George Barclay wherever he may be found And to Carry him to the nixt sure prisone wher he is to be detained till farther order And our privie Councell to be Immediatly acquanted theruith And for the Encouragement of all persons to be dilligent and Carefull in discovering and apprehending the said Sir George Barclay we doe heirby Declare that whosoever shall apprehend the said Sir George Barclay And delyver him to any magistrat uithin this kingdome to be detained prisoner as said is shall receave and have payed to them the soume of one Thousand pounds Sterling as a reuard for their good service which soume we doe heirby requyre the Lords Commissioners of our Thesaury to make payment of accordingly And In caise any of our Good subjects shall kill mutilat or hurt the said Sir George Barclay or any persone who shall presume to uithstand our good subjects in the apprehending of him The saids persons who shall Kill hurt or uound the said Sir George Barclay or any others who shall stand up violently to defend or uithstand his being apprehended shall be heirby alse sufficiently indemnified as if they had a Remission under our Great seall for the same And farder we doe heirby strictly prohibite and discharge all the subjects of this our antient kingdome to Conceall harbour or supplie the said Sir George Barclay under the pains of being proceeded against uith all rigor according to the severall Laws and Acts of parliament made anent harbouring or resetting fugitives and Traitors Our will is heirfore And we Charge yow strictly and Command That Incontinent these our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh and to the Mercat Crosses of the whole remanent head burghs of the severall shires and steuartries uithin this kingdome And ther In our name and authority by open proclamation make publication of the premisses That none may pretend Ignorance And ordaines these presents to be printed Given under our signet at Edinburgh the seventh day of May and of our reigne the Eight year i696 sic subscribitur ut sederunt

Att Edinburgh the seventh day of Maj Jaj vjc nyntie six years

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Proclamation

Proclamation for apprehending Sir George Barkley

The Follouing proclamation being read was votted approven and signed wherof the tenor follues
William by the Grace of God King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland defender of the faith To […] Macers of our privie Councell messengers at armes our shirreffs in that pairt conjunctlly and severally speciallie Constitut Greeting Forasmuchas Sir George Barcley Having Entered into a horrid and detestable Conspiracy uith diverse other wicked and traiterous persons to assassinat and murder our sacred persone Is not yet apprehended and brought to Justice But is supposed to have made his escape out of the kingdome of England (wher that execrable villany was to have been perpetrat) And to have fled to and taken his refuge In this our antient Kingdome And we being resolved to use all Indeavours to Bring such a Barbarous Traitor to Condegne punishment Doe therfore Requyre and Command all Magistrats and Ministers of our Law officers of our army and souldiers under our pay and all other the Good subjects of this our antient kingdom whatsoever to discover seiz upon take and apprehend the person of the said Sir George Barclay wherever he may be found And to Carry him to the nixt sure prisone wher he is to be detained till farther order And our privie Councell to be Immediatly acquanted theruith And for the Encouragement of all persons to be dilligent and Carefull in discovering and apprehending the said Sir George Barclay we doe heirby Declare that whosoever shall apprehend the said Sir George Barclay And delyver him to any magistrat uithin this kingdome to be detained prisoner as said is shall receave and have payed to them the soume of one Thousand pounds Sterling as a reuard for their good service which soume we doe heirby requyre the Lords Commissioners of our Thesaury to make payment of accordingly And In caise any of our Good subjects shall kill mutilat or hurt the said Sir George Barclay or any persone who shall presume to uithstand our good subjects in the apprehending of him The saids persons who shall Kill hurt or uound the said Sir George Barclay or any others who shall stand up violently to defend or uithstand his being apprehended shall be heirby alse sufficiently indemnified as if they had a Remission under our Great seall for the same And farder we doe heirby strictly prohibite and discharge all the subjects of this our antient kingdome to Conceall harbour or supplie the said Sir George Barclay under the pains of being proceeded against uith all rigor according to the severall Laws and Acts of parliament made anent harbouring or resetting fugitives and Traitors Our will is heirfore And we Charge yow strictly and Command That Incontinent these our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh and to the Mercat Crosses of the whole remanent head burghs of the severall shires and steuartries uithin this kingdome And ther In our name and authority by open proclamation make publication of the premisses That none may pretend Ignorance And ordaines these presents to be printed Given under our signet at Edinburgh the seventh day of May and of our reigne the Eight year i696 sic subscribitur ut sederunt

1. NRS, PC1/50, 510-11.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 510-11.

Sederunt, 7 May 1696, Edinburgh

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Sederunt

Lord Chancelor; Earl of Melvill; Duke of Queensberry; Earl of Southerland; Earl of Mortoun; Earl of Lothian; Earl of Leven; Earl of Annandale; Viscount Tarbat; Lord Beilhaven; Lord Poluarth; Lord Advocat; Lord Justice Clerk; Lord Anstruther; Mr Fra: Montgomery; Laird of Grant; Laird of Blackbarrony; Laird of Stevenson; Provost of Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh the seventh day of Maj Jaj vjc nyntie six years1

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Sederunt

Lord Chancelor; Earl of Melvill; Duke of Queensberry; Earl of Southerland; Earl of Mortoun; Earl of Lothian; Earl of Leven; Earl of Annandale; Viscount Tarbat; Lord Beilhaven; Lord Poluarth; Lord Advocat; Lord Justice Clerk; Lord Anstruther; Mr Fra: Montgomery; Laird of Grant; Laird of Blackbarrony; Laird of Stevenson; Provost of Edinburgh

1. NRS, PC1/50, 509.

2. NRS, PC1/50, 509.

1. NRS, PC1/50, 509.

2. NRS, PC1/50, 509.