; and of the said sheriffs, their several pre cepts thereupon, directed to the burghs of , for choosing each of them a commissioner or delegate to the effect underwritten, and ordering the respective commissioners to meet at the said burgh of as the presiding burgh for the time, of the class or district of burghs above mentioned, upon the day and date of these presents, being the thirtieth day after the teste of the writs of election aforesaid, and to choose a burgess for the said district to represent them in the ensuing Parliament to be holden at the city of Westminster, upon the day of next. The commissioners chosen for the burghs aforesaid, being this day met in the of the said burgh of, the presiding burgh at the said election did, by an unanimous vote (or by a majority of votes) of the said commissioners, who produced commissions duly authenticated, freely and indifferently choose and elect a burgess of the said burgh of to attend and serve in the ensuing Parliament of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the said class or district of burghs above mentioned, giving and granting to the said full and sufficient power for and on behalf of the said class or district of burghs and communities thereof, to do and consent to those things which then and there shall happen, by the common council of the kingdom, (by the blessing of God) to be ordained upon the affairs mentioned in the said writ. In witness whereof to the one part of these presents remaining with the said A. B., to be annexed to and returned with the writ of election, directed to the sheriff of the said shire of he the said A. B. and C. D. have set their hands and seals; and to the other part remaining with the said C. D. for the use of the district of burghs before mentioned, the said A. B. has also set his hand and seal, place, day, month, year of God, and King's reign aforesaid. XVII. Opinions of the Court in the case of Mackenzie v. Macleod, 9th February 1768, taken from the Session Papers of Sir Ilay Campbell; (see p. 84.) President. Doubt of competency of freeholders. Attestation of proper officer. Suppose objection to sasine; objector comes prepared with witnesses, other party not.-Gardenston. Same opinion. No end to such questions, if enter into proof.-Montboddo. Same opinion as to competency. Resolves into an improbation. As to other point, incline to think that sasine must be engrossed.-Pitfour. As to competency, difficult to ascertain precise boundary. May take nullities (into account), but not proofs, As to registration, of opinion that since 1693, which makes date of registration the rule, minute-book the rule. Must depend not on diligence of a copiator, but on party. Made a legal part of the register by that act. Must be marked by presenter as well as keeper. Preference depends on this marking. The rest is all operation. Act 1617 no doubt meant engrossing in register, but no minute-book then. Few sasines then; few sales; little commerce. Cannot be done in forty-eight hours now. Minute-book introduced in 1672, and brought to perfection in 1693. As to question of sixty-days, this not a clear point. Would not have people trust to it. Inhibition takes no place at all, if not registered in forty-days. Every thing safe if rule observed of presenter signing, &c. Proper to enforce by an act of sederunt, under penalty of deprivation. No harm though not marked immediately, if another not marked before. Another erroneous practice to mark it as of date of presenting; this ought to be corrected. Res gesta here to be attended to. General erroneous practice may support it. Besides holding it of the 21st, this sufficient.-Kaimes. If require proof, must put him upon roll. This difficult in law, but utility requires it. Similar to justiciary as to forgery; but, upon complaint, the Court of Session may put him off upon evidence, because have jurisdiction. Saw the sasines in the record.—Affleck. Freeholders judge of what is laid before them. Not a court now, only a meeting. Where court formerly when had sheriff with them. Highly irregular to take oaths. Marking by presenter the proper check. If all kept in same order no difference. Tortious proceedings of other side at Inverness.-Colstoun. Freeholders cannot take proofs; and doubt if we can take proofs here, which were not before freeholders. In some cases have; e. g. questions of possession. Practice has varied. Clear as to registration that entering in minute book is sufficient. Called upon to make regulation.—Montboddo. Act 1696 clear. No practice contrary to it. As to act 1693, view then that entry in minute-book should determine preferences. (Act 1696) corrects or makes an addition to act 1693. Action of damages given; no use for this, if entry in minute-book sufficient. Says nothing of registering in sixty days. Suppose a man who has after a sasine is marked, and gets sasine first recorded in the other register, and protests that his preferable, would prefer him.-Kennet. Always against interlocutor *, because knew practice. The acts 1693 and 1696 not inconsistent. Act 1693 a very proper regulation. Act 1696 also. The attestation must be inserted ad longum; but then sufficient that in cursu to do so, and in This interlocutor had sustained the objection. 22 APPENDIX. mean time has the sasine in his hand, and the lieges at no loss. Must XVIII. Proclamation for Dissolving a Parliament of Great Britain, and declaring the Calling of another. GEORGE R. WHEREAS we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our privy council, to dissolve this present Parliament, which stands prorogued to we do for that end publish this our royal proclamation, and hereby dissolve the said Parliament accordingly; aud the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commissioners for shires and boroughs, of the House of Commons, are discharged from their meeting and attenthe said dance on : And we being desirous and reday of solved, as soon as may be, to meet our people, and have their advice in Parliament, do hereby make known to all our loving subjects, our royal will and pleasure to call a new Parliament; and do hereby further declare, that, with the advice of our privy council, we have this day given order to our Chancellor of Great Britain to issue out writs in due form for calling a new Parliament, which the writs are to bear teste on the Given at our court, &c. the day of &c. XIX. De tenemento infra burgum de Suthberwyk pertinenti Episcopo Moravien. (P. 454.) UNIVERSIS Christi fidelibus hoc scriptum visuris vel audituris, Petrus filius quondam Johis filii Aliciae de Lynlithku, salutem in D'no sempiternam. Noverit universitas vestra me concessisse, vendidisse et titulo vendicionis perpetuo tradidisse, venerabili patri D'no Arach (Arch' *), Dei gratia Ep'o Moravien., nomine Eccli'æ sue Moravien., totam illam terram meam quam habui infra villam de Suthberwyk, cum omnibus aedificiis in eadem constructis et singulis pertinenciis suis, libertatibus et asiamentis, sine aliquo retinemento, una cum omni jure et clamio quod habui in eadem, pro centum lib. sterlingorum legalium, quas idem Ep'us mibi in summa necessitate mea pre manibus plene numeravit et tradidit, de qua me teneo bene pagatum et quietum, attendens in hoc meam utilitatem fuisse factam. Quaequidem terra jacet super le Nysse in longum, et in latum inter terram Roberti de Kingorn, ex parte aquilonali, et terram Adae de Seleby ex parte australi; quam vero terram habui ex dono et collacione patris mei predicti, et ad vendendum optuli in tolbotha de Suthberwyk ad tria placita capitalia, secundum legem et assisam burgi : Tenendam et habendam dicto Ep'o et Eccli'ae sue Moravien. sive assignatis suis, in perpetuum, libere, quiete, plenarie et honorifice et pacifice : Reddendo de singulis annis D'no Regi pro omni servicio, consuetudine, exaccione, et demanda, secularibus ad consuetos terminos burgi, vii denarios et obol. In cujus rei testimonium presenti scripto sigillum meum apposui. Testibus, &c.—Chartular. Moravien. Vetust. fol. xlvi. Archibald was Bishop of Moray from 1253 to 1298; Keith. XX. Charta Willielmi de Bonkel venditionis burgagii de le Ratonraw in Glasgw. (P. 454.) PATEAT universis praesentes litteras inspecturis, quod ego Willielmus de Bonkel, burgensis de Glasgw, pro me et heredibus meis concessi et vendidi, Religiosis viris Abbati et Conventui Monasterii de Passeleto, totam terram meam, cum pertinentiis, jacentem infra burgum de Glasgw, in vico qui vocatur Ratonraw, inter terram Domini Mauritij Starive Cappellani ex parte occidentali, et stratam regiam quae dicitur Le Wynde, ex parte orientali, pro quadam sum. Chart. Recentius, fol. 43. ma pecuniae mihi per dictos religiosos prae manibus totaliter persoluta. Quam quidem terram, cum pertinentiis, Gilbertus de Camera, paupertate secundum legem burgorum probata, coactus, obtulit propinquioribus parentibus et amicis ad tria placita capitalia vendendam, et quam terram, cum pertinentiis, idem Gilbertus in defectu parentum et amicorum mihi vendidit, ad opus meum, et heredum meorum, et assignatorum meorum: Cujus quidem terrae cum pertinentiis saisinam recepi, pro me et heredibus meis, et assignatis meis, de consensu dicti Gilberti, per Præpositum et Ballivos dicti burgi, hora diei legitima, cum in Tolle et ante Tolle, in præsentia duodecem burgensium et vicinorum dicti burgi ad hoc specialiter voeatorum, et ipsa saisina gavisus fui pacifice per annum unum et diem sine clamio alicujus; et ego Willielmus, et hæredes mei, dictam terram cum pertinentijs dictis religiosis, secundum quod lex burgorum exigit et requirit, contra omnes homines et feminas warrantisabimus et defendemus. Praeterea obligo me et haeredes meos, et successores meos quoscunq., solvere fabricae majoris Ecclesiae Glasgwensis decem libras Sterlingorum, nomine poenae, et dictis Religiosis alias decem libras Sterlingorum, nomine damnorum suorum, et interesse, absq. aliquo strepitu judiciali, nullo proponendo obstante, quotiescunq. contigerit nos, vel aliquem nostrum, contra praesentem venditionem, sive contra aliquem articulum in praesentibus litteris contentum, in foro ecclesiastico vel civili, in toto vel in parte, movere seu moveri, seu facere quaestionem, praesenti nihilominus venditione mea in sua robore duratura; Renunciando pro me, et haeredibus meis et successoribus nostris quibuscunq., omni prosecutioni et actioni, exceptioni, cavillationi, regiae prohibitioni litteris regiis impetratis seu impetrandis; omni privilegio, cruce signato vel cruce signandis, indulto vel indulgendo, et omni juris remedio, tam canonici quam civilis, quae nobis vel alicui nostrum in praemissis, vel aliquo praemissorum prodesse, et dictis religiosis obesse poterunt in futurum. Et ad omnia et singula in praesentibus litteris contenta fideliter et integre tenenda et perimplenda, fidem pro me et haeredibus meis, et successoribus nostris quibuscunq. prestiti corporalem, subjiciendo nos et quemlibet nostrum cohertioni officialis curiae Glasgwensis, qui pro tempore fuerit, quod possit nos et quemlibet nostrum legitima admonitione praemissa compellere ad tenenda et implenda omnia et singula quae in praesentibus litteris continentur. In cujus rei testimonium, sigillum meum una cum communi sigillo dicti burgi, et sigillo officialitatis curiae supradictae, ad requisitionem meam, causa majoris evidentiae, est appensum. Teste communitate burgi supradicti.-Hay's Vet. Diplom. vol. iii. p. 286. From a confirmation of this grant in the year 1321, ib. p. 287, it appears that this deed must have been written about that period. |