Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Mrs Hewat v. Andrew Hewat
Date: 16 December 1692
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Mrs. Hewat against Andrew Hewat, for proving his misbehaviour in his father's service. The Lords had formerly refused to admit women witnesses; now she offered to prove by Thomas Spence, servant to Sir James Stewart, the King's advocate. And it being objected, that his master having given his advice for Margaret Blair, the said Hewat's relict, his man got money in the cause;
Answered,—That the money being only for writing the information, and not for deponing, he could not be refused. The Lords rejected him from being a witness.
