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ſter, Daniel Macqueen, John Dryſdale, Robert Dick, and Henry Lundie, judicially produced in the Court of Seffion, to which they will certainly adhere, in their evidence to be emitted before the other reverend brethren of the jury; and that is not all, for, upon a proper examination, theſe five reverend gentlemen, eſpecially Mr Lundie, muſt teſtify, that all the ſentences of deprivation pronounced againſt me in the ſpiritual courts, were founded upon malicious and confeſſed forgery of warrants that never had any real exiſtence, and perjury, ſupported by ſacrilegious alienation of the King's charity by Lord Chief Baron, then Lord Advocate, and his confederate Dr Robertſon, in the government of this miſerable church, in which I have done more at leaſt than any other perſon that ever lived, except the author of the widows fund, for relief of my diſtreſſed brethren in the miniſtry; and by the grace of God, my hart and my life, under all the cataſtrophes of this various ſtate of mortality, has been more agreeable to the ſpirit of Chriſtianity, and laws of the church, than either Lord Chief Baron's or Dr Robertſon's, themſelves being witneſſes; and it appears from the records of the church, that all the twenty years perſecution I have ſuffered, originated ſolely from my treſpaſs in admitting Lord Chief Baron into the the claſs of my elders, with Lord Elliock, and the late Duke of Argyle, who were approved, and his Lordſhip rejected in the year 1757, by his own preſbytery of Peebles, as their records, forged as they are, do teſtify.

7mo, It now remains for the Right Honourable judge and jury of this court, to enquire into "the value of the eſtates of my deceaſed brother, eſpecially