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creted and denied upon oath, and a more valuable charter of an American inheritance, No. 34. of the townſhips of St. John's Iſland, was iſſued by his Majeſty in council in favour of my brother, upon the 26th of Auguſt 1767, and then tranſmitted to the Governor of Nova Scotia for inveſtiture, but Lord Hyndford and other executors, upon oath, denied their knowledge of that charter in the prerogative court at a period poſterior to the exhibition of an authentic copy of the charter itſelf extracted from the records of the privy council, and produced in the ſame prerogative court. This American inheritance was not comprehended under the aforeſaid laſt ſettlement of the entailed eſtates of Kilbucho and Whitſtade in my favour, publiſhed by my brother in October 1767, and therefore Lord Hyndford and Lord Provoſt, and their univerſal factor and agent, in virtue of their falſe will, had a better title to that eſtate than any other eſtate whatever of my deceaſed brother, but the truth is now confeſſed, that their right to the ſucceſſion, in all or any of theſe eſtates here, or in America, was founded in theft, perjury, and forgery, &c. and high treaſon, more infamous if poſſible than that of the continental congreſs, who lately invaded that inheritance vi et armis.

And that is not all; for, upon the 2d of May 1771, the Lord Chief Baron directed me to ſwear to the total falſehood of the will in the prerogative court, and by that oath alone, the conveyance his Lordſhip acquired from me of the American inheritance is, to this hour, ſupported, and nothing leſs than abſolute infatuation could move his Lordſhip to ſeduce the executors, as they ſay,