Warrant, 25 September 1701, Edinburgh

Procedure, 30 December 1701, Edinburgh

Edinburgh the Twenty fyfth day of September Jaj viic and one years

A1701/9/181

Warrant

Warrand for transporting John Weir to Flanders to be a Souldier

Anent a petition given in to the Lords of his Majesties privy Councill be John Weir prisoner in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh under the Sentence of death Shewing That wher the poor petitioner was in a most misserable condition and Lyke to Sterve for want of aliement, And the saids Lords haveing in their great goodnes clemency and mercie to the petitioner granted Severall reprives to the saids Lords poor petitioner which he hoped he would never be forgettfull of while he Lived; and also that he should be a new man and never fall in such snairs as formerly he hade done And that if it should pleasure the saids Lords to Change his sentence of death to Banishment wher the saids Lords pleased he should never be seen therafter within this kingdome without express Libertie for that effect And Therfore Humbly Supplicating the saids Lords to the effect aftermentioned as the petitione bears The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill haveing Considered this petition given in to them be the above John Weir They hereby Commutt the Sentence of Death Pronounced by the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties justiciary at Edinburgh from death to Banishment; And the saids Lords Have Banished and Doe hereby Banish the said John Weir furth of his Majesties dominions and appoints him to depart furth therof And Discharges him to returne therto at any time comeing In regaird2 The said John Weir first before extracting hereof hath enacted himself in the books of privy Councill that he shall depart furth of his Majesties dominions betwixt and the Fifteinth day of October nixt to come and that he shall never returne within the same under the pain of haveing the above Sentence of Death peremptorly execute against him, And appoints the Magistrats of Edinburgh and keeper of their Tolbooth to delyver the person of the said John Weir to Captain James Lindsay to be caried abroad by him as a Souldier in his Majesties Service abroad; and also before extracting hereof hath given in to the Clerks of privy Councill ane enactment Subscrybed by him Whereby he enacts himself that he shall goe abroad with the said Captain Lindsay as a Souldier in his majesties Service and not to returne as said is Sic Subscribitur Marchmont Cancelar, Annandale Seafield, Tarbat, Teviot, Rosebery, Montgomry, Hyndfoord, James Stewart.

Edinburgh the Twenty fyfth day of September Jaj viic and one years

A1701/9/181

Warrant

Warrand for transporting John Weir to Flanders to be a Souldier

Anent a petition given in to the Lords of his Majesties privy Councill be John Weir prisoner in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh under the Sentence of death Shewing That wher the poor petitioner was in a most misserable condition and Lyke to Sterve for want of aliement, And the saids Lords haveing in their great goodnes clemency and mercie to the petitioner granted Severall reprives to the saids Lords poor petitioner which he hoped he would never be forgettfull of while he Lived; and also that he should be a new man and never fall in such snairs as formerly he hade done And that if it should pleasure the saids Lords to Change his sentence of death to Banishment wher the saids Lords pleased he should never be seen therafter within this kingdome without express Libertie for that effect And Therfore Humbly Supplicating the saids Lords to the effect aftermentioned as the petitione bears The Lords of his Majesties privy Councill haveing Considered this petition given in to them be the above John Weir They hereby Commutt the Sentence of Death Pronounced by the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties justiciary at Edinburgh from death to Banishment; And the saids Lords Have Banished and Doe hereby Banish the said John Weir furth of his Majesties dominions and appoints him to depart furth therof And Discharges him to returne therto at any time comeing In regaird2 The said John Weir first before extracting hereof hath enacted himself in the books of privy Councill that he shall depart furth of his Majesties dominions betwixt and the Fifteinth day of October nixt to come and that he shall never returne within the same under the pain of haveing the above Sentence of Death peremptorly execute against him, And appoints the Magistrats of Edinburgh and keeper of their Tolbooth to delyver the person of the said John Weir to Captain James Lindsay to be caried abroad by him as a Souldier in his Majesties Service abroad; and also before extracting hereof hath given in to the Clerks of privy Councill ane enactment Subscrybed by him Whereby he enacts himself that he shall goe abroad with the said Captain Lindsay as a Souldier in his majesties Service and not to returne as said is Sic Subscribitur Marchmont Cancelar, Annandale Seafield, Tarbat, Teviot, Rosebery, Montgomry, Hyndfoord, James Stewart.

1. NRS, PC1/52, 298-9.

2. The phrase ‘In regaird’ is an insertion.

1. NRS, PC1/52, 298-9.

2. The phrase ‘In regaird’ is an insertion.