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 To the Right Honourable Lady Hyndford, &c.

Edinburgh, 30th Dec. 1776.

DEAR LADIES,

It is my duty once more to remind your Ladyſhips of the unutterable diſtreſs of many years I have ſuffered by the infatuated perjury of your huſbands, in ſpiritual courts, and the thefts and forgeries perpetrated by others, under their Lordſhips protection and authority, and I now certify your Ladyſhips, that I ſhall be neceſſitated to purſue them to death, upon the ſole teſtimony of the Reverend Mr Webſter, and Mr James Loch, if their Lordſhips do not immediately authoriſe and enable Mr Webſter, according to Lord Chief Baron's ſolemn promiſe, to reſtore the undelivered diſpoſition of my eſtate of Coulter and fields in the New Town, &c.feloniouſly ſtolen from a depoſitation in Mr Webſter's hand, in November 1771, upon faithleſs aſſurances of retroceſſion and defeafance never fulfilled, and alſo authoriſe and enable Mr Loch, as Lord Hyndford's factor, to reſtore the true laſt will and ſettlement of the eſtate of Kilbucho and Whitſlade, publiſhed by my brother in my favour, upon the 6th of October 1767, immediately before his death, and which, Mr Loch has now confeſſed to Mr Webſter to have been in his cuſtody and poſſeſſion ever ſince that period, although denied upon oath, both by his Lordſhip and his factor, in July 1768.

If the ſtolen writs are reſtored before Friday, when the examination before the jury muſt proceed, it is well, if otherwiſe, the perjured thieves merit no favour.

I am, Ladies, and ever have been,

the moſt compaſſionate and

faithful of all your paſtors,

DAVID DICKSON.