Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Edward Bird of Ford v. James Justice of Easter-Crighton
Date: 17 February 1693
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Captain Edward Bird of Ford against James Justice of Easter-Crighton, being a debate about a seat in the kirk. The Lords remitted it back to the presbytery of Dalkeith, to review their own sentence, and to do therein what they should find just. But the Lords did look upon this as a civil interest, wherein the church was not sole judge, but if they wronged any, their sentence might be rectified.
