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A man having required a notary to accompany him to take instrument in his hand, of his offer to pay his taxation, and upon refusal of that first notary, having made the like requisition to other two, who also refused him; he pursued them to hear and see them punished in their persons and goods for refusing to serve him in their office upon his reasonable expenses, he being the King's free liege. The Lords sustained the summons to be proved by the notaries' oaths or authentic writ, and no otherwise.
