Stirling peerage

STYUNG HIMSELF EARL OF STIRLING. 9
the back of the said document or writing, a certificate or docquet in the
following- or similar terms; — "Excerpt from the original charter to
William Earl of Stirling, 7 Dec. 1639 ;" and you did, then and there,
wickedl}' and feloniously forge and adhibit, or cause and procure to be
forged and adhibited to the said certificate or docquet, the letters T. C.
meaning the same to pass for, and be received as, the genuine subscrip-
tion of Thomas Conyers of Catherlongh in Ireland, or of some person
to the Prosecutor unknown, or of a lictilious person : FURTHER, you,
the said Ale.xander Humphreys or Ale.\"ander, having, on or about the
12th day of October, 1829, raised an action in the Court of Session
against Dr John Watts and William Alexander Duer, in which compear-
ance was afterwards made for His Majesty's Advocate for His Majesty's
interest, for proving the tenor of the said alleged charter of iiovo damns ;
you did, within the Register House of Edinburgh, or within the Parlia-
ment House of Edinburgh, on the
18th day of January, 1830,
or on one or other of the days of that month, or of December imme-
diately preceding, or of February immediatelj' following, wickedly and
feloniously use and utter as genuine the said forged, fabricated, and
simulate document or writing, having thereon the said forged and
fabricated certificate or docquet and subscription, you well knowing the
said document or \i riting, and certificate or docquet, and subscription, or
one or other of them, to be forged, fabricated, and simulate, by then and
there delivering the same, or causing the same to be delivered by the
hands of Epbraim Lockhart, writer to the signet in Edinburgh, your
agent, or some other person to the Prosecutor unknown, to Joha
Morrison, then and now or lately Assistant-Clerk of Session at Edin-
burgh, or to some other person in the otiSces of the Clerks of Session to
the Prosecutor unknown, in order to its being produced as an adminicle
of evidence in the said action of proving the tenor; and it was so pro-
duced accordingly: LIKEAS, (2.) the said action of proving the tenor
having thereafter been dismissed by decree, dated on or about the
4th day of March, IS.TO; and you having, on or about the 1st day of
September, 1830, raised an action of reduction-improbation and declarator
in the Court of Session against William CuniBgham Cuningham Graham
of Gartmore ; and you having thereafter, on or about the 2d day of
September, 1830, raised in the said Court another action of proving of
the tenor of the same alleged charter of novo damns against the said
William Cuningham Cuningham Graham of Gartmore, and the Officers
of State, and others, you did, within the said Register House or said
Parliament House of Edinburgh, on the
17th day of November, 1830,
or on one or other of the days of that month, or of October immediately
preceding, or of December immediately following, wickedly and feloni-
ously use and utter as genuine, the said forged, fabricated, and simulate
document or writing, having thereon the said forged and fabricated
certificate or docquet and subscription, you well knowing the said
document or writing, and certificate or docquet and subscription, or one
or other of tliem, to be forged, fabricated, and simulate, by then and
there delivering the same, or causing the same to be delivered by the
hands of the said Ephraim Lockhart, or some other person to the
Prosecutor unknown, to the said John Morrison, or to some other person ia