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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by ROBERT MACGILL, LORD FOORD.
Date: James Shearer
v.
The Town of Stirling
14 December 1649 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In the process at James Shearer's instance against the Town of Stirling, wherein the town had proponed an exception of payment of some bygone annualrents made by their treasurer, who died of the sickness, and had not delivered the discharges;—the Lords would not sustain their incident, nor any such discharge, which was presumed to be their own evident, but bade them go on in their ordinary, to prove the allegeance, as they would be served; especially seeing the
principal sum of a 1000 merks, wherefore this annualrent was payable, was mortified to their town by the pursuer's kinsman, they paying to the pursuer the said annualrent yearly, which was brought from 100 merks to 80 merks this last bygone session, and is likely now to be brought to 60. Page 91.
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