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Edin. 27th December 1776.

To the Right Honourable Alexander Kincaid, Eſq: his Majeſty's Stationer, and Lord Provoſt of Edinburgh, and the Right Reverend and Select Jury of the Miniſters of the Goſpel in the City,

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DAVID DICKSON of Kilbucho,

Miniſter of Newlands, &c.

Humbly ſheweth,

ΤHAT in purſuance of a ſpecial brieve and mandamus directed by his Majeſty to your Lordſhip, and a reverend jury of the miniſters of this city, by me ſelected in uſual form, as the probiſſimi et fideliſſimi homines patrie, you are all now involved in a happy neceſſity to vindicate yourſelves, as beſt you can, from an apparent conſpiracy with a tribe of perjured thieves, to defraud me, by a continued feries of nine years theft, perjury, and forgery, of all the valuable eſtates under your juriſdiction in the New Town, and others in Scotland, England, and America, which devolved to my property in rightful ſucceſſion by the death of John Dickſon of Kilbucho, Eſq; my elder brother, in December 1767.

His Majeſty's ſovereign brieve before you is

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