Memorials of the lineage, early life, education and development of the genius of James Watt

38 MEMORIALS OF
" Court Lolden att Crawfurdsdyke the 13th of July, 1703. Arch. Murchy, bay-
lyie, Wm. Geils, fiscall, and Thomas Watt, clerk, pro tempore.
" Curia affirmata legittirne.
" Complains, Wm. Geils, pror. -fiscal], on Jon Henry, carpenter. That whereon
ane or oyr of the clays of May last past, the said Jon Henry did beat and bruise Jaur.
M'Neil, taylor, for w'ch the said Jon ought to be punished according to law to the
terror of oyrs to comitt the lyke — and sicklyke complains on Eobert Gardner and
Archibald Miller, both servitors to John Watson, shoemaker, That whereon an oyr
of the days of June last past, the said two persons did most unchristianly and bar-
barously beat and bruise on ane other for wch they ought to be punished according
to law to the terror of oyrs to commit the lyke in time coming, — and sicklyke com-
plains on Jean M' Vicar, spouse to Josias Thomson, skiper, and Jonet Scot, widow,
and Margaret Urie, that wher yesternight being the 12th inst., the saids three per-
sons did most unchristianly flyt and scold on against the oyr by many bitter reproach-
ful and invective speeches to the prejudice of the fame and good name of each oyr,
for wch all of them ought to be punished according to law and custom in lyke caises
to the terror of oyrs to comitt the like in tyme comeing, — Sicklyke complains on
Jonet Erskine, servitor to James Kamsay, coupar, and Elspeth Galbraith, spouse to
Robert Erskine, and moyr (mother) to the said Wm., and on Archibald Miller, ser-
vitor to Jon Watson, shoemaker ; That, whereon this present day, on the forenoon,
on the hie street, the said Wm. Erskine and Archibald Miller did most unchristianly
and unneighbourly fight with on an other, and did beat and bruise on another, and
particularly the said Wm did by the help of his said mother, wound and beat the
said Archibald Miller to the effusion of his blood on two places of the head, for wch
the said persons ought to be punished according to law to the terror of oyrs to do the
lyke, and particularly that the said Wm. over and above the fyne be decerned to pay
to the said Archibald, such a sum as you shall think fit to be modified for curing of
his wounds.
" The Baylyie having heard and considered the lybell does find the same relevant
to be proven prout de jure, and therefore referrs the verity of the lybells to oath,
particular defender's oath, and the said Jon Henry acknowledges the lybell, so the
baylyie fynes him in fyve pounds Scots to be given down by the laird if he please. ;
Jonet Scot being called, the fiscall and the pairties pass from the lybell as to her;
and Margaret Ury being sworn as to the lybell against her, finds it not proven against
her ; as to Mrs. Thomson, the fiscal and Margaret Ury passes from the lybell as to
her ; and Archibald Miller having confessed his rugging of Eobert Gardner's hair and
casting him down ; and Robert Gardner confessing his rugging the hair of Archibald