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character of a counſellor of law, and arbitrator not for me, but for the executors, has declared not only to be a falſe and improbative writ, but a teſtament diametrically contrary to the true laſt will and intention of the teſtator, aſcertained by the teſtimony of this ſame Lord Chief Baron himſelf, and therefore neither I, nor any ſucceeding heir, can inherit under that felonious title, without incurring the ſame capital and infamous guilt with the executors; and the truth is, that upon a juſtice warrant of impriſonment iſſued againſt Lord Hyndford and Mr Macdonald, he wiſely renounced his factory, by an holograph paper-writing, by him ſubſcribed, and Lord Hyndford alſo renounced his executorſhip, and ſaved himſelf from prifon, by deforcement of four conſtables in his own kitchen, ſo that I am by them tolerated in exiting the rents of my own eſtate of Kilbucho: But the Court of Seſſion are for ever diſabled to reſcind their own ſequeſtration and forfeiture, without confeſſing the high treaſon of impoſing it.

So that, upon the whole, the poſſeſſion of all the uninventoried, opulent, and diſincumbered eſtates, real and perſonal, in Scotland, England, and America, devolving to my property in rightful ſucceſſion by the death of my brother, muſt be reported to his Majeſty by the verdict of this right honourable and reverend court, as forfeited eſtates, ſeized and fequeſtrated by the treaſonable deſpotiſm of the Court of Seſſion, in avowed violation and defiance of the moſt eſſential articles of the Magna Charta of Scotland.

DAVID DICKSON.

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