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Mr John Hamilton, Minister of Edinburgh, having raised a proving of the tenor of a discharge against the Master of Balmerino, he gave in a bill, craving some of the witnesses may be examined ad futuram rei memoriam, to lie in retentis; because they were old and valetudinary, and some of them were members of the Session. The Lords refused it, because of the state of the process that it was only executed for the first diet, and the summons was yet blank, and the adminicles not libelled nor filled up.
Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 192. Fountainhall, v. 1. p. 383.
