Judicial Proceeding, 10 December 1700, Edinburgh

Att Edinburgh The Twenty Nynth day of February J^aj vii^c years

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A1700/2/29¹

Warrant

Warrand for Liberating William Graham of Boquhaple and Confineing him to the Town of Kilmarnock

Anent The Petition given in To the Lords of his Majesties privy Councill By William Graham prisoner in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh Shewing That their Petitioner having been Imprisoned within the Tolbooth of Edinburgh by warrand of some of their Lordships number, And Being Kept as closs prisoner for severall weeks bypast, True It is That his health is therby so far decayed and Naturall vigor dayly decreassing to that height That both Their Petitioner and his Phisicians and all others who are acquainted with his Circumstances and present Condition, Expect no less then that a few days Continueing him in that Closs prison will put ane End to his life Life,² And albeit the Phisitians decline to give any Certificat anent the premises upon Soul and Conscience pretending the same to be unusuall, yet Seing the Truth of what is above Represented as to this present Circumstances of health is undenyable as is Clear by Certificats, both by the Phisitians and of the Clerk of the Tolbooth theirwith produced. And Therfore Humbly Craving Their Lordships To Take the premises and his decayed and dayly more and more decaying Condition of health To their Serious Consideration And To ordain him To be sett at Liberty, upon his Enacting himself To be Confined within what Bounds as their Lordships shall appoints, untill he Recover his health and Thereafter to obey what farther orders their Lordships shall appoint, or otherways to Re Enter to prison if their Lordships shall Think fitt, And In Respect of his present Indigent Condition, To allow him, what their Lordships shall think fitt for defraying the Expenses of his aliment since his Imprisonment And for the future during their Lordships pleasure as the said petition bears. The saids Lords of his majesties privy Councill having Considered this Petition given in to them by William Graham of Boquhaple with the Phisitians Certifiacts and a Certificat by the Clerk of the Tolbooth of Edinburgh wher he is prisoner mentioned in and produced with the Petition, They heirby give order and warrand To the magistrats of Edinburgh and Keeper of their Tolbooth, To set the Petitioner at liberty furth therof, The petitioner first before Extracting heirof Giving Bond and finding Sufficient caution acted in the books of privy Councill, That he shall Repair to the Town of Kilmaranock betwixt and the last day of March next to come, and Shall Remain Confined and Two myles about the same, And That he shall not goe without the Bounds of his Confynement, And in the mean tyme That he Shall live peacefully under and with all Submission To the present Government of his Majesty King William And That he Shall not Act Consult nor Contrive any thing in prejudice therof, Nor shall not Converse nor Correspond with any Rebells and That he Shall appear before the saids Lords of privy Councill when soever he Shall be called for or Required to that Effect (In caice he Shall Transgress to any pairt of the premises under the penalty of Two Hundered Pound Sterling.)