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 INFORMATION of Perjury depending before the Lords of the Juſticiary Court, &c. inſcribed by David Dickſon of Kilbucho, Miniſter of Newlands, and D. D. to the Right Honourable Ladies of Lord Hyndford, and Lord Chief Baron Montgomery, both of his Pariſh.

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The STATEMENT of the whole Caſe of Theft, Forgery, and Perjury, Forfeiture, Sacrilege, Deforcement, wrongous Impriſonment, and high Treaſon, &c. now depending before his Majeſty, and the Privy Council at London, and the judicial proceedings in the ſame Caſe, to be heard and verdict to be reported to his Majeſty, by Lord Provoſt Kincaid, and the Reverend Jury of fifteen Miniſters of Edinburgh, in purſuance of a ſpecial Mandamus, iſſued by his Majeſty for that Purpoſe.

By the claim and declaration of rights 1689, which is the ſacred and indeſeaſible charter of King and Subject, it is declared that all affertions of an abſolute power to caſs, annul, and diſable laws, are contrary to law, that the impriſoning perſons without expreſſing the reaſons thereof, and delaying to put them to trial, is contrary to law;- that the cauſing purſue and forfeit perſons upon frivolous and weak pretences, and upon lame and defective probation, is contrary to law;-and by the ſtatute 1703, it is declared, that it shall be high treaſon in any of the ſubjects of Scotland, to quarrel, impugn, or endeavour by writing, or malicious ſpeaking, or other open act or deed, to alter or innovate the claim of right, or any article thereof. Vid. the claim itſelf.

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Printed in the Year M, DCC,LXXVII.