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 himſelf in words too ſolemn and ſerious to be here repeated.

May it therefore pleaſe your Lordſhips to grant warrant to all the officers of the law to ſeize and apprehend the perſons of the ſaid John Earl of Hyndford, and James Montgomery, Eſq; Lord Chief Baron, either for examination or commitment, to be further dealt with according to law for their crimes before-recited.

DAVID DICKSON.

JUDGEMENT OF THE COURT.

7th Dec. 1776.

THE Lord Kennet, one of the Lords Commiſſioners of Juſticiary, having conſidered the foregoing petition, refuſes the ſame as irrelevant. Signed Robert Bruce."

Upon a ſimilar information of theft, perjury, and forgery, ſelf-evident and confeffed, the Lord Juſtice Clerk, having adviſed with Lord Auchinleck and Lord Coalſton, pronounced a ſimilar judgement upon the 14th of March 1771.

And what is ſtill, if poſſible, more wonderful. In July 1968, an information of the confeſſed perjury of the Reverend Meſſrs Johnſton and Oliver, two of the moſt innocent miniſters of the preſbytery of Peebles, and their clerk, was ſubſcribed by the ſheriff and Sheriff-clerk, according to the direction of the ſtatute, 8ve Anne Reg. and a preſentment was thereupon tranſmitted, with the ipſa