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sixt day of Aprill and of owre Regne the twenty ninth
yeir 1596.
Ex dehberatione Dominorum Concilii.
Sic Sub' J. Bannatyne.
G Ajjril 1596.
II. The advyse of the King's Advocate and other
LAWYERis anent the form of proceeding in the tryil
of Calderis slauchter.
Imprimis. To make inventor in wret of the namis of
the actual doeris and als of the names of the devyseris and
all them quha war airt and pairt.
Thaireefter to put in wret the hail suspicions and causis
thaireof baith againis the actual doeris and devyseris
albeit the saidis takenis and suspicionis be neveir sae
licht.
To put in lyke manner in wret quhow the saidis sus-
picionis and takinis may be provin in caice of denyel withe
the namis of the witnesses that wald serve in the proba-
tion.
To consider quhow mony of the doers and devyseris
may be apprehendit at anes be the Kingis Commission for
naething wald serve better for the tryel nor the appre-
hending of four or five and putting thame in severall
housses to the effect they may be straitly examinat be
the interrogatoris at sundrie tymes.
They quha cannot be apprehendit may be summonit
to underly the law and thaire maisteris straitlie chargit
be his majesties chairge to apprehende thame and mak
theme furthcomeand to the law quhairefoir letteris wald
be first execute and man be procurit at the Kingis hands
togidder withe the Commission to apprehend thame and
to put thame to the Kingis Justice in this town. In
respect it will be thocht hard to put thame to ane assyse
in Argyll ^ My Lord being sa eirnestfull to get the matter
^ Argyll was hereditary Justiciar of Scotland. lie had already tried and
hanged John Oig Campbell and his servant Mackellar.