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JUSTICIARY PROCEEDINGS [dec. 1665
mercenary relation and interest of pay and paymasters was
more prevalent with them than the most knit and sacred
Bonds of honour, conscience and alledgiance, Likeas divers
of the saids Persons, and in speciall the saids Coll. John Kil¬
patrick, Coll. Lues Erskine, and the said Lieut. Coll. Couttis
and the saids Majors Kilpatrick and Graham and the saids
Captains Coutts, Kilpatrick, Sandilands, to palliate and in
some measure disowning their Soveraign Lord and Prince, has
most unnaturally disowned and disclaimed their Country,
denying that they were Scottsmen, to the great disdain, con¬
tempt and dishonour of their Countrie, ffriends and ffamilies,
in so far as in them lyes. Albeit to all men of Honour and
Ingenuity their interest and relation to their Country is so
tender and dear that even Heathens have thought themselves
obliged to dy for their Country, and the saids Persons did
ever before profess and acknowledge themselves to be Scotts¬
men and were most commonly designed Scotts Officers, and
were employed before and again upon taking the said Oath in
service by the said Estates under the notion of Scotts Officers,
in doing whereof they have not only dishonourably and un-
dutifully disclaimed their Countrey but most treasonably have
disowned and denyed their subjection and alledgiance to his
Majestie as King of Scotland, and thereby in doing of the
other deeds ©written, the forsaids Persons have committed
the treasonable Crimes ©specified in manner at length
specified and contained in the criminall Letters of Treason
raised against them at the instance of his Majesties Advocate
for his Highness’s interest thereanent, and they that were
lawfully charged upon the 14th day of October last by past be
John Telpher Mossman, Herauld, and Alexander Murray,
Pursevant, to have found caution acted in the Books of
Adjournall for that effect lawfull time of day bidden and the
forenamed Persons not compearing and entering, my Lord
Justice Clerk and Justice Depute therefore by the mouth of
John Short, officer of Court, decerned and adjudged the haill
forenamed Persons and each of them to be denounced our
Soveraign Lords Rebells and put to the Horn as fugitives
and unlaws frae his Majesties Laws, for the treasonable Crimes
©written, and ordained all their Lands, Heretages, and