[1478/6/29]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
6 June before noon
The lords auditors decree and deliver that James Aikman, Dingwall pursuivant, Michael Mercer, William Oliphant, Hutcheon Madour and William Hird have done no wrong in the spoliation, taking and withholding of the sum of £80 and 15 chalders of oats taken from the lands of Dunbarney, Pittachar and Forgandenny, as contained in the summons, because the said 15 chalders of oats was taken and distrenzied through a decreet from the lords of council and by the said Dingwall sheriff in that part for the payment of a sum to the said James Aikman, as contained in the said decreet, and ordain the said Dingwall to immediately pay the said James Aikman the sum of £79 17s 6d, and 30d again to the said John Oliphant for the said 15 chalders of oats distrenzied from the said John's goods and sold by the said Dingwall for the said sum, as he admitted before the said lords, and failing the payment of the said sum by the said Dingwall, that he goes and makes himself ward of our Blackness castle within the next 8 days, there to remain at his own expense until he has paid the said sum and until he is freed by the king.
[1478/6/30]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
In the action and cause pursued by Sir Matthew Jaffrayson, chaplain, against Paton Cant, burgess of Edinburgh, regarding the wrongful and unlawful use of a seal of the late John Jaffrayson in the creation of a letter for an alleged assignation by the said late John in favour of Christian Govan to redeem a tenement lying in the burgh of Edinburgh, between the land of Nicol Spethy on the one part and the land of John Patonson on the other part on the north half of the street of the said burgh, and for the wrongful destruction of the correct letter of reversion, and the said Christian Govan for her wrongful and alleged interest in the said cause, as is contained in the summons, both the parties being present in person and through their procurators, and their rights, reasons, allegations, writs and documents heard, seen and understood at length, the lords auditors decree and deliver that the said letters of assignation, if there were any, are of no value, strength, force or effect within or outwith judgement, either in the past or the future, because the said Patrick and Christian agreed before the lords that they did not use any assignation or thereby claim any interest or right, and further because the said Christian alleged that the reversion belonged to her and [was] her right and she was not lawfully summoned there, that therefore the lords continue the said summons until the 4 of next October, with continuation of days, before the lords of council in all other points contained in the same summons in the same force and effect as it is now without prejudice of party, and the said Christian is to be summoned on the said day for her interest in the said matter if it pleases the party, and both parties and witnesses are summoned according to the act.
[1478/6/31]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
After noon
Regarding the instrument of tack for the lands of Keldwod, produced by Thomas of Corrie against Esplyne of Crawford, and made by him to the said Thomas until the said lands were released for the old mail as contained in the said instrument made by John MacGilhauch, notary, dated 9 August 1469 with the intention of showing the new right of the said Thomas against a decreet given by the lords of council, because the said Esplyne alleged that the said instrument was of no value and offered to question it and prove the same was spurious, the lords continue the matter and witnesses to 4 October next, with continuation of days, before the lords of council, in the same force and effect that it is now without prejudice of party, to prove his said allegation, and ordain that letters are to summon his witnesses and both the parties and witnesses are summoned according to the act.
[1478/6/32]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
Regarding the declaration referred to the lords auditors of complaints of the question of whether the gift of the lands of Crookston made to John Lindsay in liferent should remove [Margaret Dunbar/Marjory Ogilvy?], countess of Crawford from her terce or not, the lords auditors decree, deliver and declare that because the said John Lindsay is not in fee of the said lands of Crukitstaine through the aforementioned liferent, there will be no damage or prejudice to the said lady countess in her terce, and continue until 4 October next, with continuation of days, the summons between John Lindsay of Covington and [James Hamilton], lord Hamilton and the other persons contained in the summons and the spoliation of the goods contained in the same before the lords of council in the same force and effect as it is now without prejudice of party, and both the parties are summoned according to the act.
[1478/6/33]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The lords auditors decree and deliver that David Hamilton and Patrick Hathaway shall satisfy and pay William Sinclair, burgess of Edinburgh, the sum of £16 of the usual money for certain woad as proved before the lords through their obligation as debtors for John Gray, dyer, burgess of Linlithgow as contained in the said obligation, and letters [are] to be written to distrenzie them of their lands and goods for that.
[1478/6/34]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The lords auditors decree and deliver that Walter Boyd of Pitkindie shall satisfy and pay Thomas Lowis, hose-maker, the sum of 2 chalders of wheat and 20 bolls of refined meal of the rest of a greater sum of victual as proved by the said Walter's obligation shown and produced before the said lords, to be paid immediately to the said Thomas or otherwise the value thereof as such victuals are sold [for] this day in the burgh of Perth, according to the form of the said obligation, and ordain letters to distrenzie him of his lands and goods for this.