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 -gainſt us, and to employ lawyers and others neceſſary therein, and to give them ſuch fees and gratuities as ſhall be judged reaſonable, &c. declaring, nevertheleſs, that the ſaid James Loch ſhall no ways be liable for omiſſions, but for actual intromiſſions only."

It is not at preſent proper to ſay more of this factory of executors over ſuch an eſtate, uninventoried, heritable, and perſonal in Scotland, England, and America, than that in this tenth year after my brother's death, it is now forever impoſſible that any inventory ſhould be made, which has never been yet attempted; and in the general recital of the factory, the eſtate of Whitſtade is altogether omitted, and although Mr Loch exacted the rents of that eſtate, only as factor for Lord Hyndford and Lord Provoſt, and other executors, without iuventoryinventory [sic], without caution, and without confirmation, in April 1769, yet he has now publiſhed an holograph diſpoſition of the ſame eſtate, wrote by himſelf upon the 13th of November 1767, before my brother's death, in which he allerts his own abſolute property in it, in theſe words: "I James Loch, writer in Edinburgh, heritable proprietor of the lands and eſtate of Whitſtade, for certain onerous cauſes, have fold," &c. the ſaid eſtate, which diſpoſition was alſo denied upon oath by Lord Hyndford, and the Lord Provoſt, and their factor, in July 1768, when it was in his own knowledge, cuſtody, or poſſeſſion.

4to, The Lord Provoſt, Lord Hyndford, and the other perjured executors of the falſe, ſpurious, and reprobated, did from my property the charter and leafesleaſes [sic] of ſeveral very valuable fields, to the extent of thirty-five acres, upon which the New Town of Edinburgh is built,