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Brisbane of Peeland, and the other adjudgers of Bruce of Kennet's estate, having raised a sale of the lands, and leading some of the creditors as witnesses to prove the rental; the Lords refused to admit them, albeit they were necessary, and there was penuria testium in the case, and that they were not adduced to prove the value, (wherein they might have been more suspected as biassed,) but only the rental of the lands.