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My Lord Sanquhar having pursued the relict of umquhile Padzane, for exhibition and delivery to him of the count books of the sheriffdom of Dumfries, to which Padzane was clerk; the Lords found it not necessary to summon the heirs and executors of the Sheriff-clerk, but only the haver, because these books are public, and pertain to the Judge, and not to the heirs of the defunct.