The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 29 March 2024
[1612/10/14]1
An act allowing horning upon a simple charge of 15 days to be directed upon commissars' decreets
Our sovereign lord, by advice of the three estates of parliament, ordains and statues that the decreets and sentences of all commissars within this kingdom receive such execution by horning as the decreets of sheriffs, admirals, stewards and bailies of burgh, and that the lords of session, upon the sight of the acts and decreets of the said commissars or their precepts lawfully executed by their officers, bearing the party to have been charged upon 15 days, direct letters of horning upon a simple charge of 15 days as in the cases foresaid and according to the act of parliament made in their favour.
- NAS, PA2/18, f.4v.