Bannatyne Club > Criminal trials in Scotland, from A.D. M.CCCC.LXXXVIII to A.D. M.DC.XXIV, embracing the entire reigns of James IV. and V., Mary Queen of Scots and James VI > Volume 3

128 CRIMINAL TRIALS. A.D. 1611.
to the Towne of Maybole, and being furelie informed that the faid Sii- Thomas
wes than fonpping, vpon the day of the faid moneth of Januai', in the
howfe of Sir Thomas Nifljett in Maybole, and wes to pafs, efter liipper, front
that pairt to his owne howfe ; ye and your faid complices, bodin in feir of weir,'
with hagbuttis and piftolettis, and vtheris forbiddin and vnlaufuU wapinis,
dairnit"' your felf, vnder filence of night, about nyne or ten houres at evin, in
ane obfcure place, by the whilk' the faid Sir Thomas Kennedies paflTage laye ;
and, fo foue as ye perfaued him, ye fercelie let vjion him, perfewed him with all
violence and crueltie for his llauchter, fchot and delafchit* at him ane great
number of fchottis of hagbuttis and piftolettis, and ft;ill chaiffit and perfewed
him ; wliill,^ be the Providence of God, and releif of honeft nightbouris, he wes
delyuered from your crueltie. For the whilk vylde and barbarous offence, ye
being fummond to vnderly the law, (wes) forced be your owne notour guiltines to
go to the borne. That feid and inimitie wes fchortlie thairefter removed, not
onlie be publict and fworne reconciliation maid betuix the faid vmq'* Sir Thomas
Kennedie and yow, the faid Johne Mure of Auchindi-ane, bot alfo confirmed and
ftrenthened, be allyance and mairiage of your eldeft fone vpone the faid Sir
Thomas his dochter ; whairby the faid vmq'" Sir Thomas wes drawin vnder fik
traift, alTurance and freindfchip with yow, that he, lipning" altogidder to the
fame, ^1)on the tent day of May, the yeir of God 1602 yeii-is, being of inten-
tione to ryde to Ed' for his laufuU buffmes, and having no lefs cair of your turnis '
nor of his owne,' he fend his feruand, Lancelot Kennedie, to wryte aduerteifinent
to yow, that he wes to tak his journay touardis Ed' vpon the nixt day, whilk
wes the ellevint day of May, 1602 j^eiris, or thairby ; to the effect ye might meit
him vpon the way, at the Duppil, a littill be-weft the burgh of Aire, and informe
him of Ilk buffines as ye wald def3're him to do for yow in Ed'. Whilk aduer-
teifment, being writtin at defyre of the faid Lancelot Kennedie, be Mr Robert
Mure, than fchole-maifter of Aire, your kinfmau, he lent that his Letter to yow,
with ane fcoUar boy, being in his fchole for the tyme, called Williaine Dalrum-
fill ; whilk letter cumming to your handis that efternone that it wes writtin,
vmq'^ A^^'alter Mure in Cloncaird being than in cumpanie Avith yow, in your
place of Auchindrane, ye difpatchit bak the faid William Dalrumpill, in haift,
directing him to returne to Maybole with diligence, and to deny that he had met
with yow, or delyuered the Letter to yow : And incontinent thairefter, confult-
ed and refolued with the faid vjnq''' ^^'alter Mure of Cloncaird, to aduerteis
Thomas Kennedie of Drumvrquhie, your gude-brother,^ of the certaintie of the
' Arrayed in warlike manner. = Hid, concealed. ' Past which. ■• Let off, fired.
Fr. delascher. = Until. ^ Trusting, confiding. ' Affairs or matters. * Than of his own.
^ Brother-in-law.