[1594/4/78]¹

Act in favour of John Acheson

Our sovereign lord and estates of this present parliament, considering that the late John Acheson, master coiner to his highness, contracted diverse great debts and became cautioner to sundry persons for his highness's affairs at the instant request of the late William [Ruthven], earl of Gowrie, treasurer to his majesty for the time, and that the said John has obtained diverse decreets before the lords of session against John [Ruthven], now earl of Gowrie, and his late father for relief of diverse and sundry decreets obtained against the said John as heir to his said late father for the said debts, whereof the execution is superseded by the king's majesty and lords of session for the space of five years for certain causes contained in the said supersedere; therefore our said sovereign lord and estates foresaid, finding that neither reason, equity nor good conscience would that the said John should be all utterly wrecked for his highness's debts contracted through the occasion foresaid, have in like manner superseded and supersede the execution of all sentences and decreets recovered and obtained at the instance of whatsoever creditors against the said John as son and heir foresaid for the cause above-expressed, and discharge all creditors of pursuing of the said John for the same or putting of the said decreets already recovered to execution against him for the space of one year after the date hereof.