[1482/12/7]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
5 December, the [lords] auditors sat before noon
In the action and cause pursued by Humphrey Colquhoun against Alexander Guthrie, sheriff of Forfar, regarding the lack of execution of his office touching the sum of £30 recovered by the late Sir John of Colquhoun of Luss, knight, father to the said Humphrey, from Hugh [Fraser], lord Fraser, and alleged by the said Alexander that he was prevented by our sovereign lord's letters from using his office or raising the said sum, which he was appointed to prove, the said Humphrey being present through his procurators, and the said Alexander often called but not compearing to produce his proof, the lords auditors decree and deliver that the said Alexander shall satisfy and pay the said Humphrey the said sum of £30 in default of the production of his proof according to the form of the first act, and ordain letters to be directed to distrenzie him of his lands and goods for that.
[1482/12/8]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The same day in the afternoon
In the action and cause pursued by David Wemyss against Sir John of Wemyss of that Ilk, knight, Henry Melville, John Davison, squint-eyed Andrew and Little John, regarding the wrongful taking and withholding of 52 oxen, a cow, 60 sheep and a horse from a tack of the land of Balbeggie pertaining to the said David, as was alleged, and taken by the said persons without [the presence of an] officer or minister of law, the said squint-eyed Andrew being often called but not compearing, and the rest of the persons being present themselves and through their procurators, the rights, reasons and allegations of both the said parties being heard, seen and understood, because it was agreed by the said procurators that the said goods were taken without [the presence of an] officer of the king or of the barons, and also the endorsement of a summons shown and produced before the lords auditors thereupon purported and bore out the same, therefore the said lords auditors decree and ordain that the said persons shall return the said goods to the said David [in] as good [a condition] as they were at the time that they were taken, without prejudice to the right of the annual claimed from the said lands, and ordain letters to be written to distrenzie them of their lands and goods for that.