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therefore transferred theſe eſtates, as he received them into the hands of the Court of Seſſion, without an inventory, and perſuaded their Lordſhips to accept of the ſurrendry, and to ſequeſtrate and forfeit all the uninventoried eſtates, in treaſonable violation and defiance of the claim of right, not only by purſuits founded upon frivolous and weak pretences, and lame and defective probation, as that Magna Charta ſpeaks, but without any purſuit at all, and without any form of proceſs or pretence whatever of law, reaſon, or juſtice, upon the evidence of a laſt will and teſtament, and an inſtrument of feiſin and other writs, confeſſedly falſe, forged, and counterfeited, and the teſtimony of executors and other witneſſes confeſſedly perjured.

And that is not all, for their Lordſhips in the year 1771, committed the poſſeſſion of the uninventoried eſtates to Mr Macdonald, an extractor and agent in their own court, dcciared incapable of the office of factory, by an act of federunt, and without an inventory, Mr Macdonald, the factor of the court, is authorifed to pay over all his intromiſſions to Lord Hyndford, Lord Provoſt, and the other perjured executors, and their univerſal factor, who have, without an inventory, as I am informed, diveſted themſelves of their poſſeſſion in Auguſt 1775, by final inveſtitures and ſettlements of my eſtates in my own favours, and in my own terms, as Lord Chief Baron affirms; but all the ſettlements I have ſeen directed by his Lordſhip, are founded upon the confeſſed theft, forgery, and perjury of the executors, and are radically eſtabliſhed upon the falſe will and teſtament, which Lord Chief Baron himſelf, in the character