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 which had been granted by the reverend gentlemen of the jury, and your predeceſſors in the government of Herior's hoſpital, in favour of my brother, and devolved to me in rightful ſucceſſion by his death; and that is not the worſt of it, for when Mr Hugh Buchan, your chamberlain or agent, was actually impriſoned at London, upon a warrant from the court of King's Beach, for his felonious conſpiracy with the parjured executors, and acceſſion to the theft, my Lord Chief Baron, in a ſtate of abſolute infatuation, not only ſolicited bail for the chamberlain's releaſe; but in Scotland, by falſe ſuggeſtions and faithleſs promiſes of deſcaſance and retroceſſion, his Lordſhip extorted the delivery from the Reverend Mr Webſter of a transference exterted from me, of the charter and leafes in favour of the perjured executors, who, as I am informed, have ſold all my eſtate whatever, within your territory, to the good town-council of Edinburgh, for a price for which the executors and their factor never intend to be accountable to me, and upon the fame tranſference, ſelonionſly extorted or ſtolen from my Reverend Mr Webſter depoſitary, and from my defrauded ſelf, I am aſſured, that the executors and their factors have exacted more than ſeven thouſand pounds Sterling of my uninventoried eſtates, the greateſt part of which never belonged to my deceaſed brother.

5to, An heritable bond by Jane Mark to my brother for a trifle of L. 100 Sterling, affecting a ſmall heritage in your New Town, and an obligation to my brother by George Farquhar Kinloch of London, merchant; himſelf one of the executors, for L. 800 Sterling, was by them ſecreted