Scottish History Society

Edited transcriptions, with full notes, of unpublished documents from early modern Scottish history - with subject matter including witchcraft and ghosts.

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... To the 3d Contingentia cawcc cannot prejudge the Baillie, ffor if no pursuit wherein the Advocate is engaged could be repledged, Regalities would signify nothing. And as to what is pretended upon the Act of parl., its duplied, that tho the Justices be judges competent to these crimes if there be no replegiation, yet if there be a replegiation it excludes them tho there be prevention, or else regalitys could have no privilidge beyond Inferior Judicatures seeing any competent Court has the priviledge of excluding the Justices in case of prevention. Therefore either the Regalities have this or they have no priviledge of replegiation, and the Act of parl, does not at all decide this case, but expresses only a case in favours of the Lords of Regality. But the constant custom of the Court is the Rule whereby its most clear that the Justices have been always after finding of Caution before them, and lately in the case of the Earl of Anandale, in use to grant replegiation, and the pannell's appearance nor no other act of his can prejudge the Lord of Regality. The Lords Commissioners of Justitiary repells the Defence and Duply in respect of the Reply. Mr. Alexander Anderson,1 for Coxtoun, protests that this Interloq' be but prejudice of his right, and thereupon takes Instruments. Sir Andrew Birnie for James Gordon of Tarpersie, another Defence in defender, alledges that the lybell, so far as concerns him, is donof Tarnot relevant, because nothing is lybelled but his being present Persiewith Mr. David Gordon, and it is not speciall as to any deeds of his accession, for he did not hound out the messengers nor other parties, nor approve their proceedings. And there is no more pretended against him but that after Culter was apprehended he mett and treated for an accomodation...

This is a collection of fifteen essays written over the last twenty years by one of Scotland's most eminent historians. The material concentrates on four broad themes in seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish history: Merchants, Unions and Trade; Scottish Economic Development; The Highlands; and the Rural Lowlands.