Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Date: The Earl of Selkirk, Lord Register, Petitioner
9 November 1697 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
The Earl of Selkirk, Lord Register, gave in a petition to the Lords, representing that Moncrieff of Mornipae, clerk to the admission of notaries, being deceased, his relict and servants had the records belonging to that office, and they might be embezzled, medio tempore, before another were placed; therefore craved the Lords might appoint the Ordinary upon the bills, or any other they pleased, to go where the said registers lie, and cause secure them, and take the relict's and servants' oaths that there were none of them abstracted or put out of the way.
The Lords remembered this was usual; and they had lately done it in the case of the register of hornings, vacant by the death of George Robertson; therefore they granted the desire of the bill.
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