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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION reported by SIR ROBERT SPOTISWOODE OF PENTLAND.
Subject_2 Such of the following Decision as are of a Date prior to about the year 1620, must have been taken by Spotiswoode from some of the more early Reporters. The Cases which immediately follow have no Date affixed to them by Spotiswoode.
Date: The Bailies of Irvine, Petitioners
7 February 1629 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
There was a supplication, given in by the Bailies of Irvine, making mention that there was an action pursued before them, by one against another, for payment of £80; for proving whereof the pursuer was to use witnesses; whereof some were dwelling in Ireland. Therefore they desired that the Lords would give them power to direct a commission to some person in Ireland, for taking of these men's oaths, if need were; which they could not do, nor any inferior judge, of themselves, without the Lords' warrant. Which desire the Lords granted.
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