Stirling peerage

10 TRIAL OF ALEXANDER HUMPHRYS, OR ALEXANDER,
the offices of the Clerks of Session, to the Prosecutor unknown, in order
to its being produced as an adminicle of evidence in the said last
mentioned action of proving of the tenor ; and it was so produced accor-
dingly : And the said last mentioned action of proving the tenor was
also dismissed by decreet, dated on or about the 2d day of March, and
2d day of July, 1833 : LIKEAS, (3.) you, the said Alexander Hum-
phreys or Alexander having, in pursuance of your said fraudulent
designs, procured yourself to be served heir in general of William the
First Earl of Stirling, by a service expede in the Court of the Bailies of
the Canongate, and retoured on or about the 1 1th October, 1830, and
likewise to be served heir in special of the said William Earl of Stirling,
in certain lands, continents, and islands in North America, by a service
expede in the Court of the Sheriff of Edinburghshire, and retoured on
or about the 2d day of July, 1831, and likewise to be infeft in the said
lands, continents, and islands, by a sasine taken at the Castle of Edin-
burgh, on or about the 8th day of July, 1831, in virtue of a precept
issued from the Chancery, proceeding on the retour of the said special
service ; and an action of reduction-improbation having been raised
against you and Thomas Christopher Banks, on or about the 16th day
of January, 1833, at the instance of the Officers of State for Scotland,
for reducing, inter alia, the brieves and retours of the said general
service, and special service, and the precept of Chancery and infeftment
following thereon ; and the record having been closed, and the said last
mentioned action of reduction-improbation having come on to be
debated before Lord Cockburn, Lord Ordinary ; and his Lordship having,
on or about the 10th December, 1836, pronounced an interlocutor
appointing the cause to be enrolled, which was accompanied by a note,
intimating his Lordship's intention of decerning against you in the said
last mentioned action of reduction-improbation, in terms of an interlocu-
tor, the draft of which was lodged with the clerk along with the draft of
a relative note, which intention so intimated was subsequently carried
into effect by interlocutor pronounced on or about the 20th December,
1836, to which was affixed a note of the same date; and having stated
in the said draft note, as also in the note affixed to the interlocutor of
20th December, 1836, that the evidence for proving your alleged pedigree
was unsatisfactor)', defective, and insufficient, especially as to two
descents there specified ; you, the said Alexander Humphre3's or Alex-
ander, having formed the fraudulent design of fabricating and producing
forged, false, and simulate documents or writings, which might be
received as evidence in the said last mentioned action of reduction-
improbation, and mijiht supply the defects pointed out by the Lord
Ordinary, and otherwise suppoit the allegations made by you in your
defence; and having proceeded to Paris, you did, within the house situ-
ated in the Rue de Tournon, at Paris, then and now or lately occupied
by Marie Anne Le Norniand, bookseller or fortune-teller there, at some
time or times between the
21st day of December, 1836, and
The 27th day of July, 1837,
the particular time or times being to the Prosecutor unknown, or at
some other time and place to the Prosecutor unknown, wickedly and
feloniously forge and fabricate, or cause and procure to be forged and
fabricated, upon the back of an ancient map of Canada, a writing in the
following or similar terras : —