History of the earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth

.OF STRATHERN AND MONTEITH. 51
that business, or had hand in prosecuting that William
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service, instantly quitted the house. 1 he two of Monteitif.
1632
other Advocates, however, heard the "Reasons,**
and gave their opinions respecting them under
their hands, *' which they did upon Dalzell's
warrant, (addressed to Sir James Skene, Sir
Archibald Aicheson, and Sir John Scot,) sub-
scribed by him in their presence at Edinburgh
in November, 1632.*'^
After reciting the King's instructions, the War-
rant stated that Sir James Skene, Sir Archibald
Aicheson, and Sir John Scot were the authors
" of whom the said James Maxwell and he had
heard the same;*' that seeing His Majesty had
directed him "to take the advice and opinion of
lawyers" on the subject, he required them " to
propone all such questions, difficulties, doubts,
and scruples that any of you have or can find'*
in the proceedings relating to the Earldom of
Strathern, and in the "circumstances, conse-
quencies, and dependencies thereof,'* for His
Majesty's information.^
Six " Propositions^ concerning the Earldom
of Strathern" were accordingly drawn up and
submitted to Sir James Skene, Sir Archibald
1 Sir John Scot's " True Relation," Appendix, No. IX.
pp. xxxi. xxxii.
2 Ibid. p. xxxii.
^ See those Propositions in Sir John Scot's " True Rela-
tion," Appendix, No. IX. pp. xxxiii. xxxiv.
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