Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 9 November 1687
John Inglis, Factor for Street and Jackson, v. John Forrest
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Was debated the cause of John Inglis, advocate, as factor for Street and Jackson, English merchants, (who, in 1674, obtained decreet against Mason,) for improving a false charge of horning made by John Forrest, writer, now in prison upon the suspicion of this forgery, and given without any letters of horning or other preceding warrant, only to fear the tenants of these lands beside Calder. Forrest pretended John Inglis had done it himself, and had caused write the letter to the messenger, and yet laid it all in his name.
But, on the 6th July 1688, the Lords found him guilty on the presumptions; and at last he confessed it.
