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forming, and the clerk who had himſelf tranſcribed and atteſted every article of the ſame identical act and reference, which was received, confidered, and approved by the ſynod after two years deliberation, were all confeſſedly ſuborned to perjury, in emitting the ſame oath, which was extorted from William Anderſon, one of their number, as he himſelf confeſſed, by the terrors of a ſentence of excommunication, actually pronounced and executed againſt him by the preſbytery, to inforce his perjury, and that ſtipulated perjury, by him emitted under the ſentence, as appears by the record, was truly the ſtipulated price of his ſubſequent releaſe from excommunication.

But that is not all; for, in the ſpiritual court of the Archbſhop of Canterbury in England, the Right Honourable John, now Earl of Hyndford, another heritor of my pariſh, was ſuborned by an unintelligible interlocutory award of the ſaid Lord Chief Baron, to emit a falſe and blafphemous oath of the following import: “We John Earl of Hyndford, &c. executors of the laſt will and teſtament of the deceaſed John Dickſon, Eſq; laying our hands on the Bible, ſwear, that the paper-writing dated upon the 11th of June 1767, annexed to this oatk, contains the true laft will and teſtament of the deceaſed, as far as we know or believe, and that we will truly perform the ſame, by paying firſt the debts, and then the legacies therein contained, as far as the eſtate will thereto extend, and the law charge us, and that we will make a true and perfect inventory of all the ſaid eftate, and exhibite the ſame into the regiſtry of the perogative court at is the time aſſigned us by the ſaid court, and render