Page:Information of perjury depending before the Lords of the Justiciary Court, &c..pdf/3

 Edinburgh, 4th Dec. 1776.

INFORMATION of Perjury moſt dutifully offered, in the Spirit of a Chriſtian, by DAVID DICKSON of Kilbucho, Miniſter of Newlands in the Preſbytery of Peebles, to the Right Honourable Lord Juſtice Clerk, and other Lords of the Juſticiary Court.

In the year 1762, the Right Honourable James Montgomery of Stenhope, Eſq; an heritor and ruling elder of my creation in the kirk-ſeſſion of my pariſh, now Lord Chief Baron of Exchequer, was ſuborned by that preſbytery to emit and publiſh a falſe oath, recorded in the annals of the ſpiritual courts of the church of Scotland, of the following tenor and import: “Proven by Mr James Montgomery, that Mr Dickſon fabricated and dictated an act and reference by the kirk-ſeſſion of Newlands to the ſynod of Lothian and Tweedale, in the name of the kirk-ſeſſion of Newlands, when the ſame was actually done without their knowledge and conſent. Atteſted by William Dalgleiſh moderator." Five o- ther elders of the kirk-ſeſſion, who had aſſiſted in forming,