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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by WILLIAM FORBES, ADVOCATE.
Date: William Sinclair of Roslin, and James Sinclair, one of the Clerks of the Bill-chamber, his Tutor, Supplicants
18 July 1710 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
The Lords, in a reduction at the instance of William Sinclair and his tutor, against Andrew Wauchop of Niddery, reduced an assignation, granted by the deceased Alexander Sinclair of Roslin, the pursuer's father, to the defender, of 12000 merks, resting to the cedent by George Lockart of Carnwarth; and declared the same to belong to the pursuer, as the cedent's nearest protestant relation, in the terms of the act of Parliament for preventing the growth of popery; to whom [they] ordained it to be given up, to be cancelled. In respect the pursuer having offered to prove, by the defender's oath, that the assignation was granted to him in trust, to the behoof of the congregation de propaganda fide, or some popish society; the term was circumduced against him, and he was holden confest for refusing to depone.
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