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Edinburgh, 23rd August 1704
Her majesties high commissioner and the estates of parliament order and command the person of William Cochran of Ferguslie to be taken from the bar by the earle of Marischall or the captain of his guards and delyvered at the door of the parliament house to the earle of Eroll, high constable, or to the captain of his guards, and brought by them to the tolbooth of Edinburgh, therein to be keeped prisoner by the magistrats of Edinburgh and keepers of the said prison untill he find sufficient caution to answer the severall complaints already exhibited or to be exhibited against him for his retaining and withholding a pairt of the money contained in the severall precepts drawn upon him by the lords commissioners of her majesties thesaury from the persons in whose favours they were drawn, notwithstanding his takeing recepts for the whole, and to compeer befor the parliament or any commission or other court to whom his case shall be remitted, and to attend the severall dyets of his tryall thereanent under the penalty of twelve thousand pound Scots money, for which these presents shall be a sufficient warrand.
Seafield, cancellar[ius], I.P.D. p[arliamenti]