Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 14 March 1683
Ludovick Spence v. Sir William Sharp and James Scot
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Ludovick Spence against Sir William Sharp, and Mr James Scot, sheriff-clerk of Edinburgh, reported by Colinton. The Lords assoilyied Mr James Scot as not being debtor to Sir Francis Ruthven, but to the King's Majesty and his cash-keeper, as to that fine imposed on Sir Patrick Hepburn of Black-castle, for harbouring Mr Gabriel Semple, a fanatic minister, and which was gifted to Sir Francis. And also assoilyie Sir William Sharp, he being accountable only to the king and the lords of the treasury for that money. Though it was alleged, from Damonderii Prax. Criminal, cap. 83, that militare stipendium, especially such donatives as thir, were arrestable and not of an alimentary nature.
