Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
The Master of Rae v. The Stranaver-men
Date: 26 July 1677
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The Master of Rae obtains a decreet against the Stranaver-men for 40,000 merks, as the avail of the hareships and depredations made by them during that inroad into Caitnes in 1668. The depositions of the witnesses amounting to upwards of thirty sheets of paper, the Lords referred to two of their number to peruse; for it had been impossible at any one sederunt to have gone through them all, much less have considered what was proven by two concurring witnesses, and what not. These two, viz. Forret and Newton, to whom it was recommended, drew them all under general heads, and marked what each of them materially deponed, and how many agreed in one thing.
