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der a juſt account thereof when lawfully required. SO HELP US God.

The laſt will and teſtament of my brother, atteſted by this oath, is not only now confeſſed to be falſe in its contents, but it now is, and it ever was, ſo abſolutely impoſſible in the performance, that Lord Hyndford has never atteinpred that performance, and his executorſhip is proved to have been one continued ſeries of nine years perjury, in the violation of every article of his oath, ever ſince the death of my brother in December 1767 to this day.

It is improper at preſent to ſay more of the mortal injury I have ſuffered by theſe perjuries, than that upon the evidence of my Lord Chief Baron's falſe oath, and the correſponding forgery of the Reverend Dr Robertſon, I have been bereaved of the office and benefice of miniſter of Newlands, and thereby my paſtoral relation to his Lordſhip, and every other painful connection is eternally diſſolved, and upon the evidence of Lord Hyndford's falſe oath, I have been bereaved of my family-eſtates, ſworn by his Lordſhip, to the value of fifty thouſand pounds Sterling, to which my title of ſucceſſion is now proved, and confeſſed to be no leſs ſacred and inviolable than his Majeſty's to the throne of Britain, although the treaſonable forfeitures of my office, benefice, and of my uninventoried ſecular eſtates in Scotland, England, and America, founded upon the perjuries before-recited, ſtill continue. But with reſpect to the Right Honourable Lords above named, I hope to live and to die in the bleſſed diſpoſition of the Biſhop of Aneci towards Mr Voltaire, and all the other pariſhioners of his flock, publiſhed by himſelf