New Spalding Club > Records of Invercauld MDXLVII - MDCCCXXVIII [1547- 1828]

80 RECORDS OF INVERCAULD.
denounced Rebells and put to the horn be virtue of letters of horning
purchast against them by .the complainers' instance for not payment
makeing to them of the Soume of Seven Merks Scots for each boll of
fourtie bolls of bear with the fifth part &c according to contract registrat
&c and testified by our letters of horning and precept attached thereto.
At the process of which horning the sd Alexander Bannarman and
William Gibson, rebells forsaid, lyes and abydes unrelaxed therfrae and
takeing no fear nor regard thereof, bauldly haunts, frequents, resorts, and
repairs to Kirk, RIercate and other publick and private places within the
north pairt of our united Kingdom of Great Brittain called Scotland as if
they were our free lieges therein in high contempt of us, our authoritie,
and laws, and in evill example, to others to commit the like in time
comcing to the sd complainers' heavy dammage, skaith, and prejudice
without we and the saids Lords of our Councill and Session provide
remede thereto in manner and to the effect underwritten as is Alleadged.
" Our Will is Therefore and we charge you straidy &c
Sheriffs Deputes, Baillies &c &c to pass search, seek, take, and
apprehend the sd Alexander Bannarman and William Gibson, rebells
forsaid, wherever they are or can be apprehended within the bounds of
their respective offices and jurisdictions, and being apprehended therein
to putt, keep, withhold and detain them in sure warde, firmance and
captivitie within our tolbooth and others our warding places, therein to
remain upon their own proper charges and expense ay and while they
have fuUfilled to the sd complainers the command and charge of our
forsd other letters and be orderly relaxed from the process of our horning
as writd therein contained. And if need beis that ye make steicket and
lockfast doors, henges and gates open and patent and use our keys
thereto for said effect within three dayes next after they be charged by
you thereto under the pain of rebellion and putting them to our horn
with certification to them if thej- failzee therein within sd three days
being bypast that our laws vv-ill be direct chargeing them thereto
simpliciter, and if thir our letters be put in Execution within our Burgh
of Edinburgh that the concurrence of the Magistrates thereof be craved
and had thereto. ACCORDING to Justice Because the Lords have seen
the regstrat horning &c. Given under our Signett At Edinburgh the
19th day of Aprile, and of our reign the 8th year, 1709. Ex delib. &c
"Cha: Farqrson
" Written be Fetter Gordon, my Secrt."
The lands of Melgum followed aXmost pari passu the same fortune as
those of Kinaldie.
In Lumsden's " Family of Forbes " the estate of Kinaldie is called