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of Peebles preſbytery, and that the laſt oath of Lord Hyndford, before recited, is a falſe oath, forged for him by his attorney or proctor in the ſpiritual court at London.

Theſe circumſtances, which their Lordſhips are now ſummoned to teſtify before the jury, may alleviate their guilt, which, however ungrateful and inglorious, Mr Dickſon has long forgiven, as cordially as he himſelf hopes to be forgiven of his Father and their Father, his God and their God, and as the Chriſtian paſtor of Newlands, he ſtill loves them in the Spirit of the expiring PRINCE OF LIFE, Luke xxiii. 34. much more tenderly than they believe or can ever conceive, before they, with Lord Juſtice Clerk, Lord Auchinleck, Lord Kennet, and all our other right reverend, and right honourable brethern in the holy orders of this unholy church, are translated to that inviſible and alas unknown world, into which Lord Coalfton is afcended, ex hac turba et colluvione in cætum piorum, Cic. de Senect. or rather Heb. xii. 22, c.

The full ſtate of the caſe before the King and Council at London, and all the proceedings before the Lord Provoſt, and Reverend Jury in Edinburgh, cannot be publiſhed before their verdict is pronounced on or before the 10th of January next 1777; but the mandamus of our ſovereign Lord the King was iſſued upon the 23d of September laſt, and under the authority of that mandamus, a petition was put in by me to the Court, in theſe words: