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a.d. 1676] FORBES BARON COURT BOOK
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prowen, and therfor finds both pairties guiltie, and referres
them to the bailzie, who hes fyned them in ten lib. Scotts
each of them, to be peyed within terme of law wnder the
payne of poynding.
The said day the bailzie decemes and ordaines the
within named pairties, to witt James Crystie and his
spous and Janet Antone, to keep good neichbourhood and
nowayes to scold or abuse wthers with ther tongues in
tymes comeing, wnder the payne off fyve lib. toties quoties,
and also, if they be so fownd doeing, ordaines the officer
to tirr the hous above the said Janet Antones head and
putt her away wpon a just complaint, and also ordaines
the said James Crystie to putt the said Janet Antone
away and remove her at Wittsonday nixt, wnder the failzie
off twentie lib. Scotts, to be peyed within terme of law
wnder the payne of poynding.
The said day William Barron in Towie is fownd guiltj
in holleing of firr in the moss of Towie, and yerfor is fyned
in fyve lib., to be peyed within terme of law.
[Court continued.]1
[Court for said parishes, holden as above, 30 Dec. 1676. Bailie,
etc., as above. Suits called, etc.]
The said day ther being a mutuall complaint given in
to the cowrt be Issobell Rodger dochtter to James Rodger
in Towie, and Elspeth Oliver and Elspeth Brabiner her
dochter, each of them against wthers, for scolding wthers
with base and filthie language; who for proveing of ther
complaint adduced the wittness aftemamed, to witt John
Layng, James Duncan, William Menie, against whom
ther wes no objectione ; who being solemly swome de-
1 The following is on a scrap of paper pasted on the verso of the last leaf of the
MS. : ‘ I William Clarck in Castelhill humblie means and compleans one James
Duncan, who tristed folk to come and brack his hous, and he did steall from
him ane kruck sadle with the wholl greath, ane heleren saddell, and ane tedder ;
he struck his sheep with his foot and ane other tyme with ane corn fork.
‘ December 23, 1676.
‘Continowes this bill to the nixt court day, and ordaines wittness to be
adduced and probatione led for that effect.
‘ Wm Gordowne N: P; clerk,’
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prowen, and therfor finds both pairties guiltie, and referres
them to the bailzie, who hes fyned them in ten lib. Scotts
each of them, to be peyed within terme of law wnder the
payne of poynding.
The said day the bailzie decemes and ordaines the
within named pairties, to witt James Crystie and his
spous and Janet Antone, to keep good neichbourhood and
nowayes to scold or abuse wthers with ther tongues in
tymes comeing, wnder the payne off fyve lib. toties quoties,
and also, if they be so fownd doeing, ordaines the officer
to tirr the hous above the said Janet Antones head and
putt her away wpon a just complaint, and also ordaines
the said James Crystie to putt the said Janet Antone
away and remove her at Wittsonday nixt, wnder the failzie
off twentie lib. Scotts, to be peyed within terme of law
wnder the payne of poynding.
The said day William Barron in Towie is fownd guiltj
in holleing of firr in the moss of Towie, and yerfor is fyned
in fyve lib., to be peyed within terme of law.
[Court continued.]1
[Court for said parishes, holden as above, 30 Dec. 1676. Bailie,
etc., as above. Suits called, etc.]
The said day ther being a mutuall complaint given in
to the cowrt be Issobell Rodger dochtter to James Rodger
in Towie, and Elspeth Oliver and Elspeth Brabiner her
dochter, each of them against wthers, for scolding wthers
with base and filthie language; who for proveing of ther
complaint adduced the wittness aftemamed, to witt John
Layng, James Duncan, William Menie, against whom
ther wes no objectione ; who being solemly swome de-
1 The following is on a scrap of paper pasted on the verso of the last leaf of the
MS. : ‘ I William Clarck in Castelhill humblie means and compleans one James
Duncan, who tristed folk to come and brack his hous, and he did steall from
him ane kruck sadle with the wholl greath, ane heleren saddell, and ane tedder ;
he struck his sheep with his foot and ane other tyme with ane corn fork.
‘ December 23, 1676.
‘Continowes this bill to the nixt court day, and ordaines wittness to be
adduced and probatione led for that effect.
‘ Wm Gordowne N: P; clerk,’
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| Description | Third volume. Contents: Dundee court-martial records, 1651 / edited by Godfrey Davies -- The bishop of Galloway's correspondence, 1679-1685 / edited by William Douglas -- The diary of Sir James Hope, 1646-1654 / edited by Sir James Balfour Paul -- Instructions for the trial of Patrick Graham, 1476 / edited by Robert Kerr Hannay -- The Scottish contributions to the distressed church of France, 1622 / edited by D. Hay Fleming -- The Forbes baron court book, 1659-1678 / edited by J. Maitland Thomson. |
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