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JUSTICIARY PROCEEDINGS [OCT. 1670
Edinbr. 15 October 1670.
The ffactors of the Earl of Glencairn against William
Burngate and others in Douglas for Usury, deserted and the
pursuers decerned in the expenses of the witnesses.
Edinh. 3d Novr 1670.
Mr. James Menzies, minister at Calendar, against Patrick
McBeth and others for Deforcement. The Defenders declared
fugitives and the Cautioners unlawed.
Edinbr. 6 ffebry. 1671.
A Commission The which day compeared Sir John Nisbet of Dirlton,
thejustire710 knight, his Majesties Advocate, and produced a Commission
Clerk andtiCeof un(^er Majesties’ Great Seal, dated at Whitehall 11 Janry.
the Lords of 1671, to John Earl of Athol, his Majesties Justice Generali,
of justice P'aCe Sir John Home of Renton, knight, his Majesties Justice Clerk,
Deputs. Alexr Lord Halkerton, Sir James ffowles of Colintoun, Sir
Robert Nairn of Strathvird, Sir John Baird of Newbyth, and
Sir John Lockhart of Castlehill, to be his Majesties Justices
in all Criminal Causes. Which Commission, at the desire of
the Advocate, and by appointment of the said Justice Generali
and Commissioners, is here reported, of the which the tenor
follows.
Carolus, Dei gratia, Scotias, Anglicae, ffrancise et Hiberniae
Rex fideique Defensor: Omnibus probis hominibus suis a quo
presentes nostrae literas pervenerint salutem: sciatis nos per
commissionem nostram sub magno sigillo regni nostri Scotiae, de
data vigesimo nono die mensis Septembris anno Dom. mil-
lesimo sexcentesimo sexagesimo nono auctoritate et potestate
nostra, munivimus quosdam nobiles aliosque, dominos nostri
Secreti Consilii et Sessionis inibi specificatos, consilium inire
et deliberare de Curia Justitiariae aliisque judicatoriis in eadem
enumeratis de que regulatione earundem, ac stabilire istius
modi regulas et ordines sicut illi necessaries judicarent, ad fines
inibi expresses, quinetiam ordinavimus dictos Commissionarios
seriem eorum progresses nobis scripto renunciare, ut nos tale