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After this petition is ſubſcribed, I have the pleaſure of being afſured, that both Lord Hyndlord, and Lord provoſt Kincaid are determined judicially, in preſence of the reverend jury, to renounce and diſclaim any intereſt of property, poſſeſſion, or adminiſtration of my uninventoried eſtates, upon the title of the falſe will, or upon any other title whatever; and that is not all, for the Lord Provoſt affirms, that he virtually revoked Mr Loch's factory many years ago, and that all the paper-writings ſaid to be ſubſcribed by him in the character of an executor, under the direction of my Lord Chief Baron, are abſolute forgeries that never exiſted; and he affirms particularly, that he never emitted an executor's office oath in the probate of the will before the prerogative court, nor in any court whatever, ſo that the will, to this hour, is, in the conſtruction of law, ſuch a felonious, improbative, paper-writing, that every other executor publiſhing it, or uſing it in judgement, without the probate oath of the Lord Provoſt, muſt, upon that ſole evidence, ſuffer the pains of infamy and death at Tyburn, if not in the Graſs-market, eſpecially conſidering that upon exhibition of my brother's true laſt ſettlement in October 1767, and Lord Chief Baron's teſtimony to the falſehood of the June will, emitted in his Lordſhip's decreet-arbitral upon the 11th of Auguſt 1775, every one of the other executors muſt confeſs their own perjury in the falſehood of their probate oaths.

To ſay no more, it would be very grievous, and I hope unneceſſary at preſent, to recite all the on ther forgeries, thefts, and perjuries, obliterations, lacerations, and falſifications, even of the records of