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Procedure: remission, 21 March 1693, Edinburgh

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Procedure: remission

Remitt to the thesaurer anent2 William3 Muir

The Lords of their majesties privy Councill haveing given order to the magistrats of Musleburgh to take tryall of the damnadge and prejudice done to the house of William Muir Smith ther by the Souldiers quartered in the place And the magistrats haveing reported to the saids Lords that they haveing taken advyse of honest and skillfull workmen They given in a particular Condescendance in writt that the same will amount to the Soume of Fiftie pund Eight shilling Eight penies Scots, The saids Lords of their Majesties privy Councill Doe heirby Recomend to the Lords Commissioners of their Majesties thesaurie to cause payment be made to the said William Muir of the said soume of Fiftie punds Eight shilling Eight penies money forsaid.

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Procedure: remission

Remitt to the thesaurer anent2 William3 Muir

The Lords of their majesties privy Councill haveing given order to the magistrats of Musleburgh to take tryall of the damnadge and prejudice done to the house of William Muir Smith ther by the Souldiers quartered in the place And the magistrats haveing reported to the saids Lords that they haveing taken advyse of honest and skillfull workmen They given in a particular Condescendance in writt that the same will amount to the Soume of Fiftie pund Eight shilling Eight penies Scots, The saids Lords of their Majesties privy Councill Doe heirby Recomend to the Lords Commissioners of their Majesties thesaurie to cause payment be made to the said William Muir of the said soume of Fiftie punds Eight shilling Eight penies money forsaid.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 203v-204r.

2. The word ‘James’ scored out here.

3. Insertion.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 203v-204r.

2. The word ‘James’ scored out here.

3. Insertion.

Order, 21 March 1693, Edinburgh

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Order

Recomendation anent a person pressed at Falkirk

The Lords of their Majesties privy Councill Doe heirby Recoment to Sir Thomas Livingstoune Commander in Cheiff of their Majesties forces for the tyme within this kingdome To make inquyrie anent a persone pressed by one of Collonell Buchans officers to be a Souldier and who being seazed at Falkirk was Imediatly transported to Dundie and to doe in that matter as he should find Just Conforme to the proclamation of Councill.

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Order

Recomendation anent a person pressed at Falkirk

The Lords of their Majesties privy Councill Doe heirby Recoment to Sir Thomas Livingstoune Commander in Cheiff of their Majesties forces for the tyme within this kingdome To make inquyrie anent a persone pressed by one of Collonell Buchans officers to be a Souldier and who being seazed at Falkirk was Imediatly transported to Dundie and to doe in that matter as he should find Just Conforme to the proclamation of Councill.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 203v.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 203v.

Sederunt, 21 March 1693, Edinburgh

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Sederunt

Lord Chancelor; Duke of Hamilton P:C:; Earl of Melvill p:S:; Earl of Linlithgow; Earl of Strathmore; Earl of Leven; Earl of Anandale; Earl of Forfar; Earl of Brodalbine; Viscount Tarbat; Viscount Stair; Lord Raith th: dpt; Lord Cardross; Lord Carmicheall; Master of Forbes; Lord Advocat; Lord Fountonhall; Lord Enstruther; Laird of Grant; Laird of Blackbarony; Sir Thomas Livingston

Edinburgh The Twentie day of March Jaj vjc nyntie Thrie years1

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Sederunt

Lord Chancelor; Duke of Hamilton P:C:; Earl of Melvill p:S:; Earl of Linlithgow; Earl of Strathmore; Earl of Leven; Earl of Anandale; Earl of Forfar; Earl of Brodalbine; Viscount Tarbat; Viscount Stair; Lord Raith th: dpt; Lord Cardross; Lord Carmicheall; Master of Forbes; Lord Advocat; Lord Fountonhall; Lord Enstruther; Laird of Grant; Laird of Blackbarony; Sir Thomas Livingston

1. NRS, PC2/24, 203v.

2. NRS, PC2/24, 203v.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 203v.

2. NRS, PC2/24, 203v.

Warrant, 14 March 1693 (pm), Edinburgh

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Warrant

Warrand for delivering up James Jarvies boat

The Committie apointed for examineing witnesses against James Bruce and James Jarvie Doe heirby Ordaine the magistrats of Dumbarr or any other persones in whose hands the boat and furniture therof pertaineing to James Jarvie shiper at Alloway presently are which was seized comeing from the bass to Deliver the same to the said James Jarvie Conform to the former order of Councill And that notwithstanding of any Stopp put upon the said former order, Which is heirby Declared to be Loused.

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Warrant

Warrand for delivering up James Jarvies boat

The Committie apointed for examineing witnesses against James Bruce and James Jarvie Doe heirby Ordaine the magistrats of Dumbarr or any other persones in whose hands the boat and furniture therof pertaineing to James Jarvie shiper at Alloway presently are which was seized comeing from the bass to Deliver the same to the said James Jarvie Conform to the former order of Councill And that notwithstanding of any Stopp put upon the said former order, Which is heirby Declared to be Loused.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 203r-203v.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 203r-203v.

Act, 14 March 1693 (pm), Edinburgh

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Act

Act The Relict and Childrein of Doctor Lyon.

Anent a Petition given in to the Lords of their Majesties privy Councill be Jean Orrack relict of the deceast Doctor Gilbert Lyon late minister of Kinghorne in name of her Childrein Shewing That the petitioner haveing ane claime for the behoove of her Childrein to half ane years vaccand stipend after the death of her said husband and that by the consent and gifts of the Earle of Strathmore Undoubted patron of the said church which not withstanding remaines still unpayd in the hands of the heritors and others Lyable in payment therof to the great Loss of the petitioner and her fatherless Childrein And the heritors being Content upon upon the warrand of ane act of privy Councill to make payment to the petitioner Considering how favorable the case is And that her said husband spent many years so Comendably in his ministrie among them And Therfore Humbly Craveing the saids Lords to Grant the petitioners ane full right for he behoove forsaid That by the saids Lords act she might Call for and uplift the said half years vaccand stipend viz the last half of the cropt Jaj vjc Eightie five years which hapned betwixt her husbands death and the entrie of his successor Mr Patrick Lyon now Minister of Kinghorne and to direct letters of horning etc if need bees for that effect as the petition bears The Lords of their majesties privy Councill haveing Considered the petition given in to them be Jean Orrock relict of the deceast Doctor Gilbert Lyon late minister of Kinghorne in name of her Childrein with the subscryved Consent of the Earl of Strathmore Patron of the said kirk written upon the end of the said petition They heirby Allow to the petitioner for the behoove of her Childrein the stipend of the said kirk of Kinghorne for the last half of the cropt and year of god Jaj vjc Eightie five And Ordaines her to be readiely answered obeyed and payed therof be the heritors fewars wodsetters and others Lyable in payment of the Same, And Ordaines letters of horning under the Signet of Councill at her instance against them for that effect The petitioner allwayes produceing a Decreet of Localitie And in case ther be non Ordaines these Lyable to make payment to her of their respective proportiones of the said half years stipend according as they shall be Decerned by the Judge ordinary, And the saids Lords Doe heirby Declair the recepts or Discharges which shall be granted be the petitioner herself to be a sufficient exoneration to the persones Lyable in any part off the said stipend.

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Act The Relict and Childrein of Doctor Lyon.

Anent a Petition given in to the Lords of their Majesties privy Councill be Jean Orrack relict of the deceast Doctor Gilbert Lyon late minister of Kinghorne in name of her Childrein Shewing That the petitioner haveing ane claime for the behoove of her Childrein to half ane years vaccand stipend after the death of her said husband and that by the consent and gifts of the Earle of Strathmore Undoubted patron of the said church which not withstanding remaines still unpayd in the hands of the heritors and others Lyable in payment therof to the great Loss of the petitioner and her fatherless Childrein And the heritors being Content upon upon the warrand of ane act of privy Councill to make payment to the petitioner Considering how favorable the case is And that her said husband spent many years so Comendably in his ministrie among them And Therfore Humbly Craveing the saids Lords to Grant the petitioners ane full right for he behoove forsaid That by the saids Lords act she might Call for and uplift the said half years vaccand stipend viz the last half of the cropt Jaj vjc Eightie five years which hapned betwixt her husbands death and the entrie of his successor Mr Patrick Lyon now Minister of Kinghorne and to direct letters of horning etc if need bees for that effect as the petition bears The Lords of their majesties privy Councill haveing Considered the petition given in to them be Jean Orrock relict of the deceast Doctor Gilbert Lyon late minister of Kinghorne in name of her Childrein with the subscryved Consent of the Earl of Strathmore Patron of the said kirk written upon the end of the said petition They heirby Allow to the petitioner for the behoove of her Childrein the stipend of the said kirk of Kinghorne for the last half of the cropt and year of god Jaj vjc Eightie five And Ordaines her to be readiely answered obeyed and payed therof be the heritors fewars wodsetters and others Lyable in payment of the Same, And Ordaines letters of horning under the Signet of Councill at her instance against them for that effect The petitioner allwayes produceing a Decreet of Localitie And in case ther be non Ordaines these Lyable to make payment to her of their respective proportiones of the said half years stipend according as they shall be Decerned by the Judge ordinary, And the saids Lords Doe heirby Declair the recepts or Discharges which shall be granted be the petitioner herself to be a sufficient exoneration to the persones Lyable in any part off the said stipend.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 202v-203r.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 202v-203r.

Act, 14 March 1693 (pm), Edinburgh

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Act and Remitt The Viscount of Tarbatt and his Tenants.

The Lords of their Majesties Privy Councill Haveing Considered the report from the Commissioners of Supplie in the Shyres of Ross and Cromarty Report the claimes given in be these shyres for what is due to them for quarters and localitie furnished to the forces dureing their quartureing in these shyres and that in swae far as concernes the debts resting to the Viscount of Tarbatt or his tenants Togither with a report of their oun number appointed for reviseing of the accounts resting be the forces to the Countrey and particularly for reviseing the claimes given in be The said shyres They Find by report of the said Committie And by the report of the Commissioners from the said shyres every way conforme to the proclamationes of Councill made theranent That the particulars following and reported due to the Viscount of Tarbats tenants viz of cropt Jaj vjc Eightie nyne to the Magizine of Innvernes twentie thrie bolls oats at four pund six shilling the boll and six hundred and nyntie seven stone of straw at two shilling per stone Item of cropt Jaj vjc nynty to the said magazine from Cromartie ten bolls thrie Firlotts Oats pryce forsaid, And two hundreth and threttie five ston straw also pryce forsaid Item for meall in Cromarty to Captain William Cuninghams Company in Coll Cunninghame his regiment Threttie four pund Fiftein shilling, And twentie two pund ten shilling for oat meall and for grass in all Eight pund Item to Major Stewarts troop in Tayne nyntein bolls oats pryce forsaid, And five hundreth and seventie ston of straw also pryve forsaid Item to the said forces in Tayne from Lochflin and Tarrell ten bolls thrie firlots oats and thrie hundreth and twentie thrie ston of straw both pryve forsaid Item of meat and provisione to Captain Nathaniall Gordon in Kenmuires Regiment in Cromarty one hundreth thretie four pund sixtein shilling and of meall to the said Captaine Eight bolls one Firlot at six pund per boll Item from New Tarbat to Corporall Reid in Captain Burnets Troop for oats six punds Eight Shilling sent to Taine, more to him six bolls and a half of oats And Seventie Eight stone of straw pryve forsaid Item to the tenents of New Tarbat and Pitinaduthie for meat and drink to Coll Cuningham2 Captain Mckay and one Robert Hamiltone their Companies as per particulars Extending to one hundreth and sixtie four pund fourtein shilling Item by the tennants of Easter Tarbat to the Lord Yesters troop and Coll Livingstounes regiement and my Lord Strathnavers officers all at Tain twentie two bolls one firlott oats pryce forsaid Anno Jaj vjc Eightie nyne Six hundreth and Fiftie four stone of straw pryce forsaid Item by Corporall Browne with a Company of my Lord Strathnavers regiment Did take from James Mckenzie tenant to the Viscount of Tarbat fourtie five bolls meall at six pund per boll Item for meat to Eight Souldiers in Strathnavers regiment for Eight dayes at four shilling per diem Item from Gaines and Losline five bolls oates and ane hundreth and fourscore ston of straw both pryve forsaid Item for meat to one hundreth men for five dayes to Captain Mckayes Company in Strapaffer One hundreth pund Item taken by Captain Mckay from Keneth Mckenzie tenant to Tarbat fourtie bolls oates and sixtein bolls bear at five merks the boll of Oats and Eight merks the bolls of bear, Item to George Gordon in Grants regiement twelue bolls meall at six pund per boll all quhich particulars abovespecified Extends to one Thousand Eight Hundred and fourtein punds scots besydes Fourtie two horsses thrie Cowes many potts panns plaids and sheep and utincells proven to be taken by the Souldiers and the wasting of his house in Fabrick and Furnitur They heirby Recomend to their Lords Commissioners of their majesties thesaurie to cause payment be made to the said Viscount of Tarbat and his tennents of the said soume off One Thousand Eight hundreth Fourtein punds Scots for corne and straw and money for meattt and drink to the forces out of the proper Fonds appointed for that effect

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Act and Remitt The Viscount of Tarbatt and his Tenants.

The Lords of their Majesties Privy Councill Haveing Considered the report from the Commissioners of Supplie in the Shyres of Ross and Cromarty Report the claimes given in be these shyres for what is due to them for quarters and localitie furnished to the forces dureing their quartureing in these shyres and that in swae far as concernes the debts resting to the Viscount of Tarbatt or his tenants Togither with a report of their oun number appointed for reviseing of the accounts resting be the forces to the Countrey and particularly for reviseing the claimes given in be The said shyres They Find by report of the said Committie And by the report of the Commissioners from the said shyres every way conforme to the proclamationes of Councill made theranent That the particulars following and reported due to the Viscount of Tarbats tenants viz of cropt Jaj vjc Eightie nyne to the Magizine of Innvernes twentie thrie bolls oats at four pund six shilling the boll and six hundred and nyntie seven stone of straw at two shilling per stone Item of cropt Jaj vjc nynty to the said magazine from Cromartie ten bolls thrie Firlotts Oats pryce forsaid, And two hundreth and threttie five ston straw also pryce forsaid Item for meall in Cromarty to Captain William Cuninghams Company in Coll Cunninghame his regiment Threttie four pund Fiftein shilling, And twentie two pund ten shilling for oat meall and for grass in all Eight pund Item to Major Stewarts troop in Tayne nyntein bolls oats pryce forsaid, And five hundreth and seventie ston of straw also pryve forsaid Item to the said forces in Tayne from Lochflin and Tarrell ten bolls thrie firlots oats and thrie hundreth and twentie thrie ston of straw both pryve forsaid Item of meat and provisione to Captain Nathaniall Gordon in Kenmuires Regiment in Cromarty one hundreth thretie four pund sixtein shilling and of meall to the said Captaine Eight bolls one Firlot at six pund per boll Item from New Tarbat to Corporall Reid in Captain Burnets Troop for oats six punds Eight Shilling sent to Taine, more to him six bolls and a half of oats And Seventie Eight stone of straw pryve forsaid Item to the tenents of New Tarbat and Pitinaduthie for meat and drink to Coll Cuningham2 Captain Mckay and one Robert Hamiltone their Companies as per particulars Extending to one hundreth and sixtie four pund fourtein shilling Item by the tennants of Easter Tarbat to the Lord Yesters troop and Coll Livingstounes regiement and my Lord Strathnavers officers all at Tain twentie two bolls one firlott oats pryce forsaid Anno Jaj vjc Eightie nyne Six hundreth and Fiftie four stone of straw pryce forsaid Item by Corporall Browne with a Company of my Lord Strathnavers regiment Did take from James Mckenzie tenant to the Viscount of Tarbat fourtie five bolls meall at six pund per boll Item for meat to Eight Souldiers in Strathnavers regiment for Eight dayes at four shilling per diem Item from Gaines and Losline five bolls oates and ane hundreth and fourscore ston of straw both pryve forsaid Item for meat to one hundreth men for five dayes to Captain Mckayes Company in Strapaffer One hundreth pund Item taken by Captain Mckay from Keneth Mckenzie tenant to Tarbat fourtie bolls oates and sixtein bolls bear at five merks the boll of Oats and Eight merks the bolls of bear, Item to George Gordon in Grants regiement twelue bolls meall at six pund per boll all quhich particulars abovespecified Extends to one Thousand Eight Hundred and fourtein punds scots besydes Fourtie two horsses thrie Cowes many potts panns plaids and sheep and utincells proven to be taken by the Souldiers and the wasting of his house in Fabrick and Furnitur They heirby Recomend to their Lords Commissioners of their majesties thesaurie to cause payment be made to the said Viscount of Tarbat and his tennents of the said soume off One Thousand Eight hundreth Fourtein punds Scots for corne and straw and money for meattt and drink to the forces out of the proper Fonds appointed for that effect

1. NRS, PC2/24, 201v-202v.

2. The letters ‘es’ scored out here.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 201v-202v.

2. The letters ‘es’ scored out here.

Decreet, 14 March 1693 (pm), Edinburgh

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Decreet

Decreet Sir James Ramsay Against The Earle Seaforth

Anent the bill of suspensione given in and presented to the Lords of their Majesties privy Councill in name and behalf of his factor and tenants Shewing That quher James Ramsay of Logie hade upon his pretended macer raised other letters and therwith caused charge the petitioner to make payment to him of the soume of thrie thousand merks Scots money alledged modified Decerned and Ordained to be payed to the charger out of the first and readiest of his fortune and estate or any part therof without distinction Conforme to ane pretended act or Decreet alledged given and pronunced be the saids Lords theranent upon the Eleventh day of October last bypast And that within ane Certaine short space nixt after the charge under the paine of rebellion and puting of the petitioner to the horn and poynding his goods and geir therfore most wrongeously and unjustly Considering It is of veritie That primo the interloquitor quherupon the forsaid act is extracted Is pronunced and given furth against the petitioner in absence for no other reasone Bot because he hade failled to give in answers to the chargers petition which he could not performe haveing never seen the bill nor having his ordinary Lawier in toue at that tyme For if the petitioner hade knowen of the bill he would as he now doe be way of Reductione and suspensione given in these unanswerable reasones why he could not be Lyable to the Charger in a Farthing Primo as to the depositiones produced be the Charger emitted be the Viscount of Tarbatt and John Keirrie he be his former answers to preceiding bills suficiently convinced the saids Lords that ther was no obligation wuld be fixt therby upon the petitioner seing it would be a practise of most dangerous consequence, And which is wholly reprobat in our Law to inferr any obligatione by the depositiones of extrinsick witnesses Secundo the petitioner haveing allready deponed very clearly and ingeniously according to his knowledge negative to the haill points of Sir James his Lybell and interogators Bounded theron, he humbly conceaved ther was no place left for the charger to vex or trouble the petitioner any Further upon the grounds of the said Lybell unles some new matter of fact hade been represented and proved And it was never heard that a party haveing deponed according to his knowledge his depositione could be redacqued by any other persones oathes and if such prepratives ware sustained that the giveing in of Clamerous bills by parties after lossing their causes through the defenders denying Lybells referred be the pursuers to their oathes and accordingly deponed negative Sentances might or should be pronunced meerly upon the account of no answers being given to such Clamerous bills no party whatsomever can be secured by his negative oath, And he may be ruined particularly in his fortune by others his Creditors who being encouraged by such a preprative might follow the same methods and render him Miserable And upon the which reasones of the petitioner hade been heard no Justice wuld have Decerned him to pay ane farthing to the charger, And so the saids Lords might evidently perceive etc And he was instantly content to discuss the reasones on the bill And Therfore etc: And Therfore Craveing the saids Lords to grant warrand for citeing the said Sir James Ramsay charger to have2 Compeired before the saids Lords at ane certaine day now bygone Bring with him the forsaid act and letters of horning raised theron To have been seen and Considered be the saids Lords And to heard and seen the samen simpliciter suspended upon the said suspension in all tyme comeing for the reasones and Causes forsaid and answers, as the said bill of suspension bears The Lords of his majesties privy Councill haveing the bill of suspension given in to them be the Earle3 of Seaforth against Sir James Ramsay with the answers given in therto be the said Sir James, They In Respect of the saids answers and of the chargers Sterving conditione Finds the letters orderly proceided against the Earle of Seaforth suspender for the Soume of Ane Thousand punds scots of the Soume of Thrie Thousand merks charge And suspends the letters Simpliciter against the suspension for the Supperplus incaise the suspender make payment to the charge of the said soume without farder Dilligence, quherin if he faillie Finds the letters orderly proceided for the said haill soume of Thrie Thousand merks contained in the act of Councill charged on.

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Decreet

Decreet Sir James Ramsay Against The Earle Seaforth

Anent the bill of suspensione given in and presented to the Lords of their Majesties privy Councill in name and behalf of his factor and tenants Shewing That quher James Ramsay of Logie hade upon his pretended macer raised other letters and therwith caused charge the petitioner to make payment to him of the soume of thrie thousand merks Scots money alledged modified Decerned and Ordained to be payed to the charger out of the first and readiest of his fortune and estate or any part therof without distinction Conforme to ane pretended act or Decreet alledged given and pronunced be the saids Lords theranent upon the Eleventh day of October last bypast And that within ane Certaine short space nixt after the charge under the paine of rebellion and puting of the petitioner to the horn and poynding his goods and geir therfore most wrongeously and unjustly Considering It is of veritie That primo the interloquitor quherupon the forsaid act is extracted Is pronunced and given furth against the petitioner in absence for no other reasone Bot because he hade failled to give in answers to the chargers petition which he could not performe haveing never seen the bill nor having his ordinary Lawier in toue at that tyme For if the petitioner hade knowen of the bill he would as he now doe be way of Reductione and suspensione given in these unanswerable reasones why he could not be Lyable to the Charger in a Farthing Primo as to the depositiones produced be the Charger emitted be the Viscount of Tarbatt and John Keirrie he be his former answers to preceiding bills suficiently convinced the saids Lords that ther was no obligation wuld be fixt therby upon the petitioner seing it would be a practise of most dangerous consequence, And which is wholly reprobat in our Law to inferr any obligatione by the depositiones of extrinsick witnesses Secundo the petitioner haveing allready deponed very clearly and ingeniously according to his knowledge negative to the haill points of Sir James his Lybell and interogators Bounded theron, he humbly conceaved ther was no place left for the charger to vex or trouble the petitioner any Further upon the grounds of the said Lybell unles some new matter of fact hade been represented and proved And it was never heard that a party haveing deponed according to his knowledge his depositione could be redacqued by any other persones oathes and if such prepratives ware sustained that the giveing in of Clamerous bills by parties after lossing their causes through the defenders denying Lybells referred be the pursuers to their oathes and accordingly deponed negative Sentances might or should be pronunced meerly upon the account of no answers being given to such Clamerous bills no party whatsomever can be secured by his negative oath, And he may be ruined particularly in his fortune by others his Creditors who being encouraged by such a preprative might follow the same methods and render him Miserable And upon the which reasones of the petitioner hade been heard no Justice wuld have Decerned him to pay ane farthing to the charger, And so the saids Lords might evidently perceive etc And he was instantly content to discuss the reasones on the bill And Therfore etc: And Therfore Craveing the saids Lords to grant warrand for citeing the said Sir James Ramsay charger to have2 Compeired before the saids Lords at ane certaine day now bygone Bring with him the forsaid act and letters of horning raised theron To have been seen and Considered be the saids Lords And to heard and seen the samen simpliciter suspended upon the said suspension in all tyme comeing for the reasones and Causes forsaid and answers, as the said bill of suspension bears The Lords of his majesties privy Councill haveing the bill of suspension given in to them be the Earle3 of Seaforth against Sir James Ramsay with the answers given in therto be the said Sir James, They In Respect of the saids answers and of the chargers Sterving conditione Finds the letters orderly proceided against the Earle of Seaforth suspender for the Soume of Ane Thousand punds scots of the Soume of Thrie Thousand merks charge And suspends the letters Simpliciter against the suspension for the Supperplus incaise the suspender make payment to the charge of the said soume without farder Dilligence, quherin if he faillie Finds the letters orderly proceided for the said haill soume of Thrie Thousand merks contained in the act of Councill charged on.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 200v-201v.

2. Insertion.

3. Marginal note: ‘200/’.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 200v-201v.

2. Insertion.

3. Marginal note: ‘200/’.

Act, 14 March 1693 (pm), Edinburgh

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Act and Remitt Mr Patrick Mowbray

The Lords of ther Majesties privy Councill haveing heard a petitione given in to them be Mr Patrick Mowbray Craveing That he might have the Sallerie modified by act of Parliament for the office of Counter warden in their Majesties mint allowed to him dureing the space and for time mentioned in the petition Read in their presence They Recomend to the Lord Cardross generall of their majesties Mint to Consider the petition and answers made therto for Walter Bosswall and Doe therin as he shall Think Fitt And ordaines letters of horning upon any Sentance that shall be pronunced be the said Lord Cardross to be direct upon Fiftein dayes and others neidfull informe as effeirs.

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Act and Remitt Mr Patrick Mowbray

The Lords of ther Majesties privy Councill haveing heard a petitione given in to them be Mr Patrick Mowbray Craveing That he might have the Sallerie modified by act of Parliament for the office of Counter warden in their Majesties mint allowed to him dureing the space and for time mentioned in the petition Read in their presence They Recomend to the Lord Cardross generall of their majesties Mint to Consider the petition and answers made therto for Walter Bosswall and Doe therin as he shall Think Fitt And ordaines letters of horning upon any Sentance that shall be pronunced be the said Lord Cardross to be direct upon Fiftein dayes and others neidfull informe as effeirs.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 200r.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 200r.

Petition, 14 March 1693 (pm), Edinburgh

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Petition

[Petition Sir Philip Enstruther]

The Councill Considering that ther was a petition given in to them be Sir Philip Enstruther and the Lord Enstruther his son as tutors testamenters to Mrs Katharine and Philip Enstruther Childrein to Dame Katharin Skeen procreat betwixt her and umquhill Sir James Enstruther her first husband Craveing these Childrein to be Delivered up to them to be educated and mantained And that ther are answers given in to the said petitione be the said Dame Katharine Skeen and the Lord […] Murray her present husband And that the said petition is now taken up by the ingivers and past frae They heirby Declar that the said Dame Katherin Skeen and her husband shall not be holden to answer to any such petition Untill the moneth of June nixt And not then aither unles they be expressly cited to that effect.

Eodem die Post meridiem

D1693/3/221

Petition

[Petition Sir Philip Enstruther]

The Councill Considering that ther was a petition given in to them be Sir Philip Enstruther and the Lord Enstruther his son as tutors testamenters to Mrs Katharine and Philip Enstruther Childrein to Dame Katharin Skeen procreat betwixt her and umquhill Sir James Enstruther her first husband Craveing these Childrein to be Delivered up to them to be educated and mantained And that ther are answers given in to the said petitione be the said Dame Katharine Skeen and the Lord […] Murray her present husband And that the said petition is now taken up by the ingivers and past frae They heirby Declar that the said Dame Katherin Skeen and her husband shall not be holden to answer to any such petition Untill the moneth of June nixt And not then aither unles they be expressly cited to that effect.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 200r.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 200r.

Act, 14 March 1693 (pm), Edinburgh

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D1693/3/211

Act

Act The Ladie Gatgirth

Anent a Petition given in to the Lords of their majesties privy Councill be Mistress Margrat Montgomry Ladie Gatgirth Shewing That the estate of John Chalmer of Gatgirth her husband being overburdained and exhausted with his predicessors debt and his escheat being fallen The Laird of Cessnock by a signatur under his Majesties oun hand has obtained the gift therof, And the same being presented to be post in exchequer their Lordships upon the Considerationes represented be the petitioner were pleased to burdein the said gift of her husbands Lyfrent escheat with ane yearly aliement of ane thousand merks for mantaineing her and her Childrein besyde the use of the house and yeards of Gatgirth, And Ordained the first years payment to be at Whitsunday Jaj vjc nyntie two years for the cropt Jaj vjc nyntie one and so furth yearly dureing her husbands lifetyme But she hade yet been deprived of the benefite of the said interloquitor by reason that ther husbands Creditors are not ranked in the backbond to be given by the Donator and the gift is not exped, and the rents Ly affected with incumberances And she haveing lately applyed to the saids Lords of thesaurie and exchequer, They were pleased by a deliverance to recomend the petitioner to the saids Lords for making the said aliement effectuall untill the gift be exped and declared, And that for bygones and in tyme comeing And Therfore Humbly Craveing That the saids Lords would take her hard circumstances to their consideratione, Togither with the saids two acts of exchequer therwith produced And ordaine the forsaid aliementary provision of ane thousand merks to be payed to her yearly the saids two years bygone and in tyme comeing be the tenants of the Estate of Gatgirth Especially seing her familly was in a very necessitous conditione And the Clerks have gotten and in the event may gett very considerable advantage by her contract of mariadge wherby she is provyded to two Thousand merks yearly of Joyntur as the saids acts bears The Lords of their majesties privy Councill, Haveing Considered a petition given in to them be Mistres Margrat Montgomrie Lady Gatgirth with two severall acts of the Lords Commissioners of their Majesties thesaurie mentioned therin and produced therwith, one which bears that ther was ane offeir made be the Old Ladie Gatgirth and the petitioner to restrict their Lyfrents to the old barronie of Gatgirth, And that the petitioners husband offerred to Dispone all the rest of his estate to his Creditors They Restricting their dilligences to the remanent of his estate and leaveing the barronie of Gatgirth frie for preserveing the Memory of the familly They heirby Allow the petitioner the use and benefite of the house and yeards of Gatgirth And the Soume of Ane Thousand merks of aliement yearly for mantaineing her and her Cheldrein besydes the use of the house and yeards of Gatfirth And Decernes and Ordaines the tenants and possessors of the estate of Gatgirth To make payment to the petitioner of the said aliement of Ane Thousand merks yearly for mantaineing her and her familly and that out of the first and readiest of the rents payable be them for the cropts and years Jaj vjc nyntie one and Jaj vjc nyntie two and yearly therafter dureing her husbands Lifetime, at least untill the said gift of Escheat be Declared or the offer abovementioned of the said aliement being all wayes first come and bypast And Ordaines letters of horning one Fiftein dayes to be direct at the instance of the petitioners against the tenants of the said estate whose names and proportion of rents are to be Condescended one by the petitioner giveing out the horning.

Eodem die Post meridiem

D1693/3/211

Act

Act The Ladie Gatgirth

Anent a Petition given in to the Lords of their majesties privy Councill be Mistress Margrat Montgomry Ladie Gatgirth Shewing That the estate of John Chalmer of Gatgirth her husband being overburdained and exhausted with his predicessors debt and his escheat being fallen The Laird of Cessnock by a signatur under his Majesties oun hand has obtained the gift therof, And the same being presented to be post in exchequer their Lordships upon the Considerationes represented be the petitioner were pleased to burdein the said gift of her husbands Lyfrent escheat with ane yearly aliement of ane thousand merks for mantaineing her and her Childrein besyde the use of the house and yeards of Gatgirth, And Ordained the first years payment to be at Whitsunday Jaj vjc nyntie two years for the cropt Jaj vjc nyntie one and so furth yearly dureing her husbands lifetyme But she hade yet been deprived of the benefite of the said interloquitor by reason that ther husbands Creditors are not ranked in the backbond to be given by the Donator and the gift is not exped, and the rents Ly affected with incumberances And she haveing lately applyed to the saids Lords of thesaurie and exchequer, They were pleased by a deliverance to recomend the petitioner to the saids Lords for making the said aliement effectuall untill the gift be exped and declared, And that for bygones and in tyme comeing And Therfore Humbly Craveing That the saids Lords would take her hard circumstances to their consideratione, Togither with the saids two acts of exchequer therwith produced And ordaine the forsaid aliementary provision of ane thousand merks to be payed to her yearly the saids two years bygone and in tyme comeing be the tenants of the Estate of Gatgirth Especially seing her familly was in a very necessitous conditione And the Clerks have gotten and in the event may gett very considerable advantage by her contract of mariadge wherby she is provyded to two Thousand merks yearly of Joyntur as the saids acts bears The Lords of their majesties privy Councill, Haveing Considered a petition given in to them be Mistres Margrat Montgomrie Lady Gatgirth with two severall acts of the Lords Commissioners of their Majesties thesaurie mentioned therin and produced therwith, one which bears that ther was ane offeir made be the Old Ladie Gatgirth and the petitioner to restrict their Lyfrents to the old barronie of Gatgirth, And that the petitioners husband offerred to Dispone all the rest of his estate to his Creditors They Restricting their dilligences to the remanent of his estate and leaveing the barronie of Gatgirth frie for preserveing the Memory of the familly They heirby Allow the petitioner the use and benefite of the house and yeards of Gatgirth And the Soume of Ane Thousand merks of aliement yearly for mantaineing her and her Cheldrein besydes the use of the house and yeards of Gatfirth And Decernes and Ordaines the tenants and possessors of the estate of Gatgirth To make payment to the petitioner of the said aliement of Ane Thousand merks yearly for mantaineing her and her familly and that out of the first and readiest of the rents payable be them for the cropts and years Jaj vjc nyntie one and Jaj vjc nyntie two and yearly therafter dureing her husbands Lifetime, at least untill the said gift of Escheat be Declared or the offer abovementioned of the said aliement being all wayes first come and bypast And Ordaines letters of horning one Fiftein dayes to be direct at the instance of the petitioners against the tenants of the said estate whose names and proportion of rents are to be Condescended one by the petitioner giveing out the horning.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 199r-200r.

1. NRS, PC2/24, 199r-200r.