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"intererint, faciendum ad capellam noſtram mittatis, et hoc breve, TESTE MEIPSO, apud Edinburgum, vigeſimo tertio die menſis Septembris, regnique noſtri anno decimo ſexto, milleſimo ſeptingenteſimo ſeptuageſimo ſexto." "Prepoſite, et balivis burgi noftri de Edinburgh, pro Davide Dickſon de Kilbucho fratri."

For information of the Right Honourable Judge and reverend gentlemen of the jury, by whom the verdict is to be thus pronounced and ſealed, and retoured to his Majeſty's Chancery, it is my duty to offer the following evidence to prove the ſeveral articles of the brieve before recited.

imo, The Lord Provoſt himſelf muſt teſtify to the jury, that immediately after my brother's death in December 1767, Mr James Loch, and other gentlemen of the law, acting under the authority and protection of his Lordſhip, and Lord Hyndford and others, affuming the character of his executors, did, in my abſence, and the abſence of all the kindred of the family, and without authority from any judge, ſeal up, inſpect and riffle the repoſitories of the deceafed, and from theſe repoſitories ſtole away, without any inventory, all the cardinal inveſtitures of the family eſtates, for ma- my paſt ages, and other parchment and paper writings, in favour of me, and the other heirs of the family, which were afterwards denied by theſe thieves upon oath, ſo that it is impofſible preciſely to aſcertain the inventory of my brother's various and opulent eſtates, either without or within the Lord Provoſt's juriſdiction.

Eſpecially conſidering, 2do, That the paper writing of the 11th of June 1767, ſaid to be the laſt will and teſtament of my moſt dutiful, moſt affectionate, and beloved brother, upon which Lord