Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL. Subject_2 I sat in the Outer-House this week.
Cannon of Headmark v. The Viscount of Stair and Sir James Dalrymple
Date: 2 December 1701
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Cannon of Headmark, having given in a petition to the Lords against the Viscount of Stair and Sir James Dalrymple, upon a competition of a wadset, whereof they were seeking to dispossess him; and having had some indiscreet and indecent expressions in a postscript of that copy given in to my Lord Tillycoultrie's box; and, calling for him, the Lords found it was done by Alexander Cannon, his brother, who judicially acknowledged it; whereupon the Lords sent him to prison to lie for a month, and then to crave pardon of the Lords on his knees, and to be debarred from agenting in the House for all time coming. Some proposed pillorying or fining; but that was waved.
