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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR GEORGE AUCHINLECK OF BALMANNO.
Date: A Frenchman
v.
The Laird of Haltoun, Sheriff of Edinburgh
20 July 1632 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Messengers and parties are discharged, by Act of Secret Council 1623, to execute letters of caption on Sunday, or any other day, in time of divine service, within the kirk or kirkyard;—conform to the which, the Lords found a charge null, given at the instance of a Frenchman to the Laird of Haltoun, sheriff principal of Edinburgh, to take his brother on a Sunday, albeit he was in his company, and not in the kirk nor kirkyard, but going home from the kirk.
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