Criminal Trials and Other Proceedings Before the High Court of Justiciary, Volume 1

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Maitland club, 1537 - Trials
 

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Page 59 - Boyde, and other fervantis of the old Lady of Home, at the time of the wounding of the faid Arthur : Item, for art and part of the Convocation of the lieges to the number of fixty perfons, and the Oppreffion done to the old Lady of Home, in fpuilzie of xxiiij cows furth of Gallovny : Item, for the Oppreffion done to the faid Arthur, coming upon him and hurting him, and taking him to the Place of Eftwode ; and detaining him therein, in prifon. — The Earl became furety to fatisfy the parties. Nov....
Page 148 - Auchinleck, and seventeen others, were amerciated " for not producing them to underly the law for art and part of the cruel slaughter of John Tod.
Page 195 - Castle-hill, with great commiseration of the people, in regard of her noble bloud, of her husband, being in the prime of her years, of a singular beauty, and suffering all, though a woman, with a man-like courage ; all men conceiving, that it was not this fact, but the hatred the king carried to her brothers, 124 that had brought her to this end.
Page 58 - gudis,'3 viz. fixty-five ' foumes'4 furth of her faid third part, limiting them up without ' pindande' them in a ' pyndfalde :'! Item, of breaking his Bond of caution to keep the peace towards the faid Margaret, by cafting a ftone out of a window, and breaking the faid Margaret's head, and ' felling' her :6 Item, for common Oppreffion of the King's lieges.
Page 141 - Rebels, and all their moveables to be escheated, for their not entering to underly the law, for art and part of the cruel slaughter of George Kennedy, son and heir apparent of George Kennedy of Attiquane.
Page 85 - MURRAY was denounced Rebel and put to the horn, for not underlying the law for...
Page 92 - Garthlone became furety to the King. THOMAS PORTAR, convicted of art and part of the cruel Slaughter of John Makmyane. — BEHEADED. 1 The conduct of the Sheriff of Wigtoun, as exhibited in this and the preceding cases, affords a melancholy picture of the state of society at that period. The hereditary Judge, and highest legal functionary in the district, appears to have vied with the most desperate of the Border thieves in the commission of all sorts of crimes ; expecting, doubtless, that his high...
Page 175 - Ay re held at Dumfries in August 1504, John Jardine in Sibbald-beside, and Robert Brig, living with Alexander Jardine, produced a remission from the King for art and part of the cruel slaughter of Thomas Dunwedy of that ilk, at his place of Duuwedy. About 1512 " the Laird Dinwiddie was slayne in Edinburgh by two persones, who eschaped by taking the sanctuarie of Holyrood house, a saufgaird much respected in those days.
Page 61 - Rebels, and put to the horn by public proclamation, &c., as fugitives from the law, for art and part of the cruel Slaughter of George...

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