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ſay, to ſelf-evident perjury in emitting a contrary oath in the ſame court.

6to, The Right Honourable Judge and Reverend Jury are, by the mandamus, required now to proceed to hear and determine, whether I, David Dickſon, am really the identical miniſter of Newlands, and the neareſt and lawful heir of proviſion, intended by my brother, and called to the ſucceſſion in that character by my brother's aforeſaid laſt ſettlement of the eſtates of Kilbucho and Whitſlade, publiſhed by himſelf in October 1767; and for determining that queſtion, I ſhall appeal to the evidence of the ſettlement itſelf, when Mr Loch is permitted by his ſuborners to produce it to the other reverend gentlemen of the jury, as he has already produced it to Mr Webſter, and, at the ſame time, Mr Loch will condeſcend to produce another ſettlement of that eſtate impoſed upon my brother, and ſaid to have been executed by him in favour of another miniſter of Newlands, who never exiſted; and the only other evidence that ſeems neceſſary to in ſtruct this article of the brieve, is a decreet of reduction, improbation, and declarator of forgery, pronounced by the Court of Seſſion, of all the ſentences of my deprivation, ſuſpenſion, or depoſition from the office and benefice of the miniſter of Newlands, which final and irreverſible decreet was pronounced at the fuit of the Lord Chief Baron himſelf, then Lord Advocate, ſupported by the honourable Dean of Faculty, then Sovereign of the bar, and that decreet, ſo far as reſpects the declarator of forgery, was ratified once and again by the Court, upon the written teſtimony of the reverend Meſſieurs and Doctors Alexander Webſter,

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