Stirling peerage

liv APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION.
This is the document referred to in our depositions of the
above mentioned date.
(Signed) Tho' Lee.
Tho^ Hornbloweu.
This is the document referred to in my deposition, taken
at Birmingham the 16tii day of June 1836.
(Signed) John Berry.
At Newtown Aids, in the County of Down,
the 29th day of June, in the year 1836.
Which day there was produced to me, John Andrews, Esq.
one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the aforesaid
county, an act and commission, dated 26th November, 1835,
since renewed, granted by Lord Cockburn, one of the Judges
of the Court of Session in Scotland, in an action of reduction
and improbation depending in that Court, in which the
Officers of State for Scotland are pursuers, and Alexander,
Earl of Stirling, and others, are defenders ; of which comuiis-
sion I accepted, and made choice of James Burns, writing-
clerk in Belfast, to be my clerk, to whom I administered the
oath dejideli, as use is.
Compeared Ephraim Lockhart, writer to the Signet, as
agent of the defenders.
Thereafter compeared Margaret M'Blain, a witness for-
merly examined for the defenders ; who being solemnly
sworn and interrogated by and in the presence of the said
Commissioner, depones. That her husband, James M'Blain,
was a mason to his business, and while he vvas able for work,
was extensively employed in the line of a mason and an un-
dertaker of building genei-aliy, having a considerable number
of workmen under him : That her said husband died six
years past last February, but for almost ten years previously he
had, by ill health and infirmities, been unable for work :
That the deponent remembers that her husband, in particular,
was employed in new flagging the floor of the old church
at the east end of Newtown House here, and that after that
work was finished, he stated to the deponent that he had
been that day upon various graves, and he particularly men-
tioned the grave of Lady Mount Alexander, with whom the