Series 1 > Records of the Proceedings of the Justiciary Court Edinburgh, 1661-1678 > Volume 2, 1669-1678

JUSTICIARY PROCEEDINGS
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1670]
Edinbr. 10. 22. 2$ and 26 ffeb. 1670.
Archibald Stirling against John Spence and others, for
Theft, deserted. The said 22 day Advocatus against Cannon
of Barley, continued to June next.
The said 25th day there is a petition given into the
Justices be Janet Maxwell, relict of the deceast James
Armstrang, called of Parknow, and the son and brethren of
the Defunct against Gavin Johnston of Whitsomehill, making
mention that the said Gavin Johnston being formerly con-
veened for the Slaughter of the said James Armstrong, and
upon the 2d of July last being declared fugitive for his not
compearance, and being ordained to be denounced to the
Horn, the Petitioner did raise Letters of Denunciation and
Caption, and he being now apprehended he is Prisoner in the
Tolbooth of Dumfries, craving therefore a Warrand to trans¬
port him to Edinburgh. And that the Magistrates of
Dumfries may be ordained to do the same upon the Prisoner’s
Own charges, and that the Magistrates of Edinburgh may be
ordained to recieve him within their Tolbooth, which desire
is granted.
26 day Mr. William Sommerveil’s Doom is here recorded
which I have sett down beside his Process.
Edinbr. 1st and 15 of March.
The Lady Rattar and her Cautioner excused for not execut¬
ing of Criminall Letters raised against some persons in
Caithness upon a Petition given in by her to the Justices
representing that there was but one Messenger in the Countrey
who would not undertake the employment which he verifies
by an Instrument produced.
The said 15 day Patrick Leslie in Newmill against Patrick
Dunbar of Balinaferry, SherrifFPrincipall of Murray, continued
till the 4 of July next, and James Wiseman, his Depute, is
excused upon production of a Testificate of his inability to
travell, and Alexander Dunbar and Walter Chambers,
procurtors ffiscalls to the said Sherriffs are declared fugitives,
also the Pursuer’s Witnesses are unlawed for not compearance.