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In an action betwixt Inglis and Wilkie in the Canongate, Mr Robert Wilkie, Rector of St Andrew's, produced a witness: Albeit it was objected that he was father's brother to the producer; yet it being answered that it was upon a fact done quando erat penuria testium, and that he was testis omni exceptione major, the Lords received him ex officio.