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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR PETER WEDDERBURN, LORD GOSFORD.
Date: Macqueen
v.
The Collector of the Vacant Stipends
21 February 1670 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Macqueen, having gotten a sentence against the Marquis of Douglas, as is before mentioned, he was pursued, at the instance of the collector of the vacant stipends, for the half year's stipend 1669 years, wherein, having repeated that same allegeance,—That, albeit he was called to be minister at Edinburgh, yet he had served at the kirk where he was incumbent till March; and that, being only a stipendiary minister at Edinburgh, his wife and children can have no ann.
The Lords did sustain the allegeance, notwithstanding he had not served the full half year, but only four months thereof.
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