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ſpecially within your territory of the New-Town, and determine of what ſuperior they are holden! by what tenor? in whoſe poſſeſſion or property they are now veſted? and by what means! by whom? for what cauſe? and from what period of time that poſſeſſion commenced?"

Upon theſe articles, it is therefore proper to inform or remind the court, that it is neceſſary for Lord Provoſt himſelf, and Lord Hyndford, and the other executors, to exhibite the ſtolen charters and other inveſtitures of the ſeveral eſtates, and particularly the charter and leaſes of the fields in the New Town which belonged to my brother, and were ſtolen from my property after his death, by which alone their value can be determined, and by which alone it muſt appear of what ſuperior? and by what tenor they are holden? But, as I am aſſured, as already ſaid, that theſe perjured thieves have fold all my brother's eſtate in the New Town to the magiftrates and council, and transferred the property upon the ſtolen warrant from me before mentioned, and as the reverend gentlemen of the jury, and the Lord Provoſt himſelf, and Mr Loch, and Mr Buchan, their factor and chamberlain, were parties to that tranſaction, it is therefore neceſſary, that all theſe parties ſhould be examined in the exhibition.

It is alſo proper to inform this court, that as Lord Hyndford, Lord Provoſt, and the other perjured executors transferred the poſſeſſion of all my brother's real and perſonal eſtates in cumulo, to Mr Loch their univerfal factor, without inventory, without caution, and without confirmation, which poſſeſſion he was unable to maintain, he therefore